Design Flaws and Service System Breakdowns. Learning from Systems Thinking

Forfattere

  • David Ing Aalto University Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.768

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

systems thinking, reframing, service systems, breakdowns

Sammendrag

In what ways might systems thinking be helpful to designers?  In the 21st century, the types of projects designers have engaged have expanded to include service systems.  Service systems are typically composites of mechanisms, organisms, human beings and ecologies.  Systems thinking is a perspective with theories, methods and practices that enables transcending disciplinary boundaries.  Application of systems thinking in designing a service system can aid in surfacing potential flaws and/or anticipating future breakdowns in functions, structures and/or processes. Designers and systems thinkers should work together to improve the nature of service systems.  As a starter set into these conversations, seven conditions are proposed as starting contexts.  These conditions are not presented as rigourously defined or as exhaustive, but as an entry point into future joint engagement.

Forfatterbiografi

David Ing, Aalto University Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

Visiting scholar at Aalto University; research fellow at Hull University (UK)

Nedlastinger

Publisert

2014-12-16

Hvordan referere

Ing, D. (2014). Design Flaws and Service System Breakdowns. Learning from Systems Thinking. FormAkademisk, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.768

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