Course: Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Practical application of the SiD method

An evaluation session with an external jury helps to check the process, cull excess ideas, and refocus the session. To perform such a session, you should invite several experts from …

Now that we introduce the travel metaphor to make the SiD Cycle understandable, In this video, Tom explains the connection between planning a holiday and the SiD Method to make …

As we tackled in the previous week, the first step of the SiD method consists of setting the goals for a project, determining its vision, and, usually at a later …

We scan for actions we can take that help to achieve our goals, like ingredients for a meal. We then make the recipe for the meal by mapping and combining …

System Understanding System understanding comes through repeated exposure to and different ways of thinking about the system you are trying to analyze. The best ideas come to us in a …

Congratulations on completing Week 1! This first milestone is an occasion to celebrate what you accomplished and learned this week. This week, we have explored SiD methodology and its applications …

Imagine you’re going on a journey to an ‘ideal place’, given few resources and little time. In step one of our journey, called goal setting, we think about what we …

Starting from the top of the SNO hierarchy, we start our investigation into solutions from the highest, system, level. Creating system-level solutions requires some good planning and ideas. Achieving your …

Archimedes was possibly the world’s greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions, theories …

Talking ideas through with team members and other stakeholders helps a great deal in achieving multiple perspectives on the same problem. Discuss the system with others; perhaps try to explain …

Case 1: Example goals for a sustainable office project The following goal set is a real-world example of a full-fledged systemic/object goal set for a highly ambitious multi-tenant office building …

The story goes that Archimedes had been plotting on a complex math problem for days. Finally, his wife drew him a bath and forced him to relax a little. In …