Andreas Wettre and Birger Sevaldson
Many accept and appreciate gigamapping as a method of understanding complexity, mixing systems thinking and design. Too often, we as teachers see that gigamapping is only used in this first phase of understanding. The method seems not to be utilised to its potential in the more creative process and throughout implementation. We are also challenging the idea that you need to understand first and then be creative about possible solutions.
Sevaldson argues that designing early is needed to ask what-if questions (Sevaldson, 2022). This is important to explore the system and how it might react. We think of this as a way of learning more about the system through design. Also, we have developed a creative process framework (Sevaldson, 2019) that is still in the making. However, we suggest that designing creatively, even at the beginning of a systems oriented design process, has its benefits.
KEYWORDS: systems oriented design, creative process, systems thinking through design.
RSD TOPICS: Learning & Education, Mapping & Modelling