Thinking & Shifting In A System - Design, Policy, Business
#insights post: Thinking and Shifting in a System requires articulating the root challenge which mandates observing, learning and sharing together across a broader spectrum while remaining close to everyday technical challenges.
Last few months have presented more opportunities for integration across design, policy, business in acting for planet/living systems.
🔶Design - Designing With Public Purpose For Everyday Life
🔹Intriguing lessons worth interweaving:
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. – Peter Drucker
Technology is the answer but what was the question? Cedric Price
Strategic design is about asking questions around the conditions that produce situations.
It’s really difficult to shift the dark matter unless you work with the matter.
Rethink understandings of technology: as culture as infrastructure as place.
We are suffering from imagination failures.
Streets are about errands and epiphanies.
Enable shared understandings.
Reframe and widen as a diverse, complex system and invite others.
Systems can’t be mapped or engineered in abstract.
Shared previously via X. Link to slides
@DanHill @cityofsound London Policy&Strategy Network
🔶Policy - Civic Futures: Provocations & Experiments In A Civic System
🔹Interesting provocations worth considering:
Transformative social change has always started in and with civil society – Civic Futures Programme.
Systems grow at the edges – but can we connect them back into the centre.
How can art help tell stories that bring diverse voices together to understand the same visions.
How can civic movements be part of city making.
🔹Key questions for meaningful engagement across the citymaking system - How are we…
Creating spaces for play and speculation?
Bringing our whole selves to leadership?
Telling stories that hold us in relationship?
Building collaborations across civic silos?
Finding creativity in the technicality?
Stewarding for long-term transformation?
@Koreo @DarkmatterLabs @theyoungfoundation @GLA @NedYounger @PalakDudani @Tunde Olayinka @MamaUjuaje @JoonLynn @AngieFarrance @Davidheinemann
🔶Business & Industry - Now for Nature: Developing And Publishing A Credible Nature Strategy And Contributing To A Nature-Positive Future
🔹Useful tips for building resilience in business and industry:
⚪Build the evidence case
Nature loss is a growing business risk in tandem with climate risk. It matters for climate change, human health tied into long-term business success. Figures. LSE
Regulations are on the horizon – Risk and Regulatory landscape shifting - on the back of TCFD - Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Global Biodiversity Framework EU Deforestation regulation.
⚪Identify the long term impact lens and its influence on dependencies
Strategy should include: materiality assessments (linked with governance), SMART targets aligned with material impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities, C-suite, board approval. Example Links.
⚪Shape and Influence
>Mindsets
Learn from interconnected climate resilience strategies and integrate together with nature, acknowledge the necessary differences as opportunity areas and create a business case.
Think local context and global impact.
Implement and gain buy-in through top and bottom up simultaneously.
Use the creativity of the youth and emerging leaders to build capacity over longer term and contribute to success overtime.
>Approaches
Mitigate and value create across the system – find opportunities in these areas to deepen impact.
Engage with traditional communities and local stewards – co think/co-build.
Source Ethically.
Use existing data and tools to get started– acknowledge its limitations.
Trends and legislation are shifting towards authentic messaging.
Advocate, share best practice and showcase lessons learned.
@nowfornature @johnsabet @michaelofosuhene-wise @evazabey @lynnebaber @benmatthews @lucycoast @tommaddox@dianeholdorf @Hannahgreen @timchristopherson @marcelobehar @sebastiansoleille
Useful links:
Slides for Designing with Public Purpose
Recording for Civic Futures
#critical knowledge stitching #futuresthinking
