Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic Design

Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems.

Systemic design uses systems thinking and service design to address large-scale societal contexts and complex socio-technical systems. These are contexts characterized by social and technological complexity, high uncertainty, and often problematic outcomes.

Using a tour guide metaphor, the book trains people's mindsets and provides tools for dealing with hyper complexity, to enable understanding of systemic problems, and to build capacity to collaborate in teams to produce action proposals.

Peter Jones (Author)
Dr. Peter Jones is Distinguished Professor of Systemic Design at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico and a professor at Toronto's OCAD University.  Peter is a co-founder and vice-chair of the Systemic Design Association and is Editor in Chief of the new journal Contexts. Peter is the founder of the Circulate Health design studio in Canada and is Academic Director of the Flourishing Enterprise Institute. 

Kristel Van Ael (Author)
Kristel Van Ael is managing partner at Namahn, a human-centered design agency in Brussels, and teacher in product-service-system design and systemic design at Antwerp University.