Systems Mapping As a Method Toward Sustainable Innovation Studies

Lecture in the course CET201. Link to the recorded lecture here.

Lecturers: Brooke E Wilkerson & Lars-Kristian Trellevik
Topic: Systems Mapping As a Method Toward Sustainable Innovation Studies

Group model building online: Experiences and insights

On March 10, 2021, we gave a presentation in the System Dynamics Society Seminar Series where we talked about our experiences with online Group Model Building so far and the lessons that we have learned. The recording of that webinar can be found here (you need to be a member of the System Dynamics Society to be able to view the recording).

Reflections on adapting group model building scripts into online workshops

This is a Notes and Insights article that was published in the System Dynamics Review. The link to the article can be found here.

The research note includes a description of our experiences and lessons learned from our very first online group model building workshop as well as areas for further development.

 

Sustainability-oriented innovation: Improving problem definition through combined design thinking and systems mapping approaches

Work on sustainability-oriented innovation resulted in an article that was published in Thinking Skills and Creativity and can be found here. A second dissemination activity occurred in the form of the breakfast meeting “Beyond Sustainability as Usual with Systems Mapping” during the 2021 Innovation week in Bergen.

The article designed and tested a new approach for eliciting and defining problems for sustainability-oriented innovation. It shows that using systems mapping in the problem definition phase helps set adequate boundaries for the problem space and increases understanding of how the system influences itself over time. As “sustainability” is a systems property, the article finds that the “helicopter view” provided by systems mapping complements the empathetic design thinking approach to form a more robust problem definition.