Complex Systems Co-Design

By John Motloch

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320739736_Complex_System_Co-Design_Pathway_to_becoming_an_appreciative_system

Paper - 2017

• Paper proposes complex system co-design as seminal fifth-generation decision processes
• Paper downloaded to wiki: File:CSCD.pdf
• MJ - paper short on impactful current methods, rich in theory of 5th generation design thinking.

Generations of design process.

Notes

• This paper sees complex adaptive systems (CAS) as “appreciative systems” [7] where entities actively and creatively participate in the reality they help create.
  • TLDR; You cannot appreciate something (and be responsible) if you do not participate.
• To unlock cognitive complexity, we can learn how to live within CAS metabolic flows, how to harvest rather than mine resources, and how to internalize all costs, resist disinformation and culturally induced ignorance 3 [28], and sustain positive eco-balance. [17]

Primary to tertiary support systems of the earth.

• The phases of cognitive complexification go from a reductive view to an appreciative view (view of agency or active and creative participation in reality creation). Tension is between the individual and collective. Resolution is simply to terminate the illusion of separateness.

From reductionist to appreciative cognition.

• Human Evolution - The contention is further that what it means to be human is changing rapidly from our former reductive, anthropocentric-focused definition of humanity to a more appreciative, complex, whole-system view.