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Sheryl Cababa on Systems Thinking for Social Change

The Informed Life

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The Importance of Systems Thinking in Design

I hear this question a lot where it feels like designers really like agency. And I think maybe there's an assumption of a lack of agency that maybe we need to sort of interrogate a little as a practice. Because if we actually lack that much agency, how effective can we be as designers to begin with? If you're thinking about designers as always being in the position of doing production level work, then yeah, you're not going to have the kind of agency that it requires to be able to use your design skills for innovation, for example.

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