Join us for the inaugural practitioners' gathering of systemic designers.
Do you crave learning from the successes and struggles of fellow change makers working at the systems scale?
We do too and are thrilled to be co-convening an intimate gathering of leaders working at the convergence of design and systems thinking. Our vision for A Better How is to create a unique (and hopefully regularly occurring) opportunity to connect with fellow practitioners to share insights from the field, codify emerging methods, and forge a more robust community of practice.
Inspired by participating in the more academic Relating Systems Thinking and Design symposia over the years, we look forward to creating a space for honest discourse around how best to communicate, convene, and intervene in systems, as well as how to advance the market for our collective skills.
October 11 – 12, 2017
UI Labs 1415 N Cherry Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
ATTENDENCE FEE $200
(This fee reflects our effort to host this inaugural gathering at the lowest possible cost. It includes breakfasts, lunches, coffee, snacks, documentation, and materials.)
REQUEST AN INVITATION Please send an email to Lyndon Valicenti at Foresight Design: lyndon@foresightdesign.org
Guiding Principles
To inform the value and format of this collective experience, A Better How will uphold the following.
Balance A Better How will embrace both successes and failures, facilitate formal and informal discussions, and afford focused and unfocused structure to ensure learning and value are gained at all times.
Intimacy A Better How will provide a welcoming and interactive atmosphere. It will serve as an opportunity to collaborate and cultivate long-lasting relationships that bolster professional networks and personal wellbeing.
Integrity A Better How will promote a shared (versus self) interest in community and invite participants to give back as much as they might take. Upholding a spirit of collaboration and trust.
Relevancy A Better How will cover relevant topics that are of current and future interests of participants.
Honesty Some of the most powerful learning moments surface from failures. A Better How will be an environment to make thoughtful and candid assessments of what worked and what didn’t in practice.
Diversity A Better How will celebrate diversity in all its forms, as well as invite actionable ideas on how this community of practice can intentionally cultivate diversity in the field.
Discussion Tracks Over the two days, A Better How will explore six tracks, integral to the advancement of the systemic design field.
Design a Fledgling Field Define an optimized systemic design field and guiding principles for realizing this vision.
Visualizing Systems Share visual and verbal tools for more holistically conveying challenges and interventions.
Convening Stakeholders Discuss strategies for bringing together stakeholders from diverse organizations, sectors, and disciplines to empower them to pursue more impactful interventions. Identifying & Implementing Interventions
Consider systems-based methods to determine the most efficient ways to intervene in complex challenges, and explore strategies to carry out interventions with minimum costs and maximum impacts.
Evaluating Systems Change Review best practices for assessing interventions in complex systems for greater impact.
Creating a Market Lay out strategies for capturing the true value of systemic design to build a sustainable economic model for our field of practice.
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