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Abstract
In this module, we learn about the process and art of navigating complexity as a challenge-based employment of methods, practices, embodiment, meta-awareness, communication, and inner development - what we frame as a new direction within the field of Systemic Design.
Objective
Learning goals are to understand the process and art of navigating complexity as a challenge-based employment of methods, practices, embodiment, meta-awareness, communication, and inner development. What differentiates a Systemic Design approach from other fields of inquiry and application? What brings different methods and practices into synergy? What inner tools, processes, and cultures do we need to learn and embody to become guides who navigate (with others) in emergent systems? How do we communicate complexity and emergent processes? How do we build organic emergence? Through all modules, the course integrates three high-level domains of learning competencies—cognitive (knowledge-based), affective (emotion-based), and psychomotor (action-based). In other words, the course integrates science and engineering with designerly techniques and approaches through systems thinking and sensing, building metacognition as of self- and process-awareness, relating these through embodied practices to place-specific real-world challenges in complex systems, accompanying the learning process with an inner development lens — interconnected with the individual Quest projects of the participants. The rapidly developing applications of AI with positive and potentially critical impacts and side effects are intrinsic part of the learning goals, as is the integration of “warm” data, such as intuition. The learning objective assessment starts with the preceding MOOC and its final multiple-choice quiz. To pass the MOOC, 70 percent of the questions must be answered correctly across all modules. During the CAS, active attendance in the live sessions with experts is required for each module. In addition, the Quest’s progress is monitored continuously in the peer-learning process and through individual discussions with the lecturers. Students are asked to contribute at least once per week during the course to the DRRS virtual community on Mighty Networks with internal-public sharing, commenting, or liking. The final learning and progress assessment step is submitting a Quest delivery, which - through all three DRRS CAS’ - builds the base for the Master design thesis, for those taking the full MAS in Regenerative Systems program.
Content
In this module, we engage in various concrete real-world situations, both spawn from the DRRS-partnering Living Systems Labs, and in direct relation with the individual Quest projects. What are examples of emergent processes where we can illustrate and practice a systemic navigation process - as of systems sensing, systems questioning, and employing systemic intervention techniques with scientific, designerly, and embodied methods and practices? How do we build our own organic emergence capabilities? Relating to concrete, real-world applications, we deeply reflect on processes of navigating complexity as challenge-based employment of methods, practices, embodiment, meta-awareness, and inner development. How do we communicate complexity and emergent processes? We learn communication skills and graphical techniques that help us to collectively engage with complex systems. We develop a rich understanding of what differentiates a Systemic Design approach from other fields of inquiry and application and how this helps with our Quests. Finally, how do we become guides for our own and collective journeys through complexity and for designing resilient regenerative systems?
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- WBZ
- Frequency
- Every two years
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Registration & Places
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| lecture with exercise |
Module 8: Navigating Complexity
Does not take place this semester.
|
No time listed | 30 h semesterly |
Offered In
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CAS in Regenerative Systems: Systemic Design (Wird nur im Herbstsemester angeboten (2-jährlich).)