First impulses in a series on AI in system mapping. The series anticipates the roles AI can take, tools and approaches, and reflections on the potential of AI-enhanced mapping.
A critical reflection on integrating AI in System Mapping
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Systems Mapping
System mapping is used to understand and analyze complex systems, identifying relationships, feedback loops, and leverage points to enable clearer decision-making and strategic interventions.
In Memoriam: Marie Davidová’s trailblazing work in systemic design
This issue is dedicated to SDA founder and chair, Marie Davidová, who passed away on April 10. Please contribute to an article about Marie’s influence on systemic design by adding your remembrance in the comments section.
Multi-Scale More-than-Human Atlas-Gigamapping
Elena Porqueddu, Marie Davidová, Hanane Behnam, and María Claudia Valverde explore synergies between different mapping approaches—the multi-scale atlas and gigamapping—in this project funded by the German Research Foundation.
NetWall: The more-than-human ecosystemic socio-technical intervention codesign
Marie Davidová, Hanane Behnam, María Claudia Valverde Rojas, and Kateřina Lagner Zímová collaborate on a pioneering project focused on creating sustainable urban habitats through the development of biocorridors.
POL– AI: Leveraging urban ecosystem
Marie Davidova, Leonie K Fischer, and Martha Teye relate ecosystems with socio-technological systems in urban environments, “more-than-human architecture are necessary to counteract biodiversity loss.”
BioDiveIn Intervention Meets GoCOLife Urban Game
Marie Davidová reports on a prototypical urban intervention. The BioDiveIn and GoCOLIFE gigamaps serve as a process tool for co-designing with multiple actors, and linking social systems and technology to the ecosystem.
Generating Urban Connectivity Systemic Interventions
Danjian Wang and Marie Davidová explore how to generate urban bio-corridors within the framework of the Synergetic Landscapes Project. The paper proposes a prototype called Possible Fabrication as one of the more possible leverage points for the urban proposal.
COLreg: The Collective Regenerative Region
Marie Davidová and Kateřina Zímová’s introduce COLreg, a synergistic post-Anthropocene model, generating a bioregion for and with all.
Synergy in the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance
Maria Davidová presents the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance and concludes with their integration and synergy in a Real Life Co-Design Laboratory.
Socio-Environmental Relations of Non-Discrete Spaces and Architectures
Maria Davidová relates human, social, and biotic behaviour with climatic and geographical data, addressing interactions in the performance of architectures and urban design.
Systemic Approach to Performative Wood
Maria Davidová’s maps express different ranges and intensities of behaviour or performance in relation to placement or designs that are represented by informational layer of images. These thematic gigamaps are exemplars of ZIP‐analysis, zooming in a problem within the area of study.
Ripple Effect Mapping (REM)
Joss Colchester’s LinkedIn post on REM got a lot of traction this week. There’s evidence of a widespread practice.
The Ripples of Impact: Evaluating the Inverse Care Law Programme
Out of 158 maps on RSDsymposium.org the first submisson identifying REM was presented by Katie Miller and Maddy Thompson at RSD13 (2024).
Systemic Design — Seven principles to navigate complexity
The System Mapping Academy is exploring how a more holistic approach can help us to navigate complexity and to design better and more sustainable solutions.
System Mapping for Future Organizations – Book Release & Interview
Fabian Gampp and Gian Wieck’s interview on their system mapping chapter in “Future Organization Playbook.”