Theresa MerchantWeek 7 : Learning organizationsPeter Senge’s book Fifth Discipline offers insights into designing organizational behavior and fostering a “learning organization” to…Oct 25, 2022Oct 25, 2022
Theresa MerchantSystemic Design Week 6: Adaptive ComplexityOne aspect Jabe Bloom mentioned regarding designing for complex adaptive systems was shifting from Fail-Safe to Safe-to-Fail…Oct 10, 2022Oct 10, 2022
Theresa MerchantSystemic Design Week 4This week’s reading “Thinking in Systems’’ by Donella Meadows opened with the idea that even if an undesirable result of a broken system…Oct 3, 2022Oct 3, 2022
Theresa MerchantSystemic Design Week 3: Wicked problems and causality mapsThe “One Shot Mindset” of a wicked problem particularly struck me during last weeks readings and lecture, particularly for its pessimistic…Sep 27, 2022Sep 27, 2022
Theresa MerchantSystemic Design Week 2: Cybernetics and the system’s observerWhile discussing second order cybernetic systems this week we learned that every system has an observer. I think I completely lost focus…Sep 20, 2022Sep 20, 2022
Theresa MerchantSystemic DesignWeek 1: Complexity, Emergent Properties, and Fractals; then Unresolvable? BlindspotsThe readings and lecture during this first class made me particularly excited about working with complexity and design, two (obviously…Sep 13, 2022Sep 13, 2022