Ontario College of Art & Design

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SFIN 6A09
Systemic Design: Social Systems
0.25 Credit(s)
Seminar
This course guides systems thinking toward socially-desirable design outcomes and innovations expressed as service systems, organizational programs, or information systems. Applying social systems concepts, students will understand and model inter-related causes and systemic effects in the formation and evolution of social systems. Teams will formulate design proposals by developing rich visual maps of a social system (organization, institution, network) using a range of research and design methods. Dialogic and systemic design methods will be learned in a co-creative studio environment. The course is taught as a seminar with lecture, discussion, simulations, visual modeling, student presentations, case study and in-class studio participation.
Notes: Equivalency: Both SFIN 6A08 Systemic Design: Systems Fundamentals and SFIN 6A09 Systemic Design: Social Systems are equivalent to SFIN 6B04 Understanding Systems and Systemic Design
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