The Social System Mapping Vision
Social System Mapping is about systemic transformation. It’s about supporting strong networks of change-agents who are justice-informed and complexity-wise.
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The Social System Mapping Origin Story
The Social System Mapping Origin Story I (Christine Capra) fell in love with System Mapping in about 2005 and started making maps at every opportunity. Some time after that, I began to work with intentional change networks and had the opportunity to create some network maps. From this, I began to imagine combining the two…
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The Iteration Challenge and the Ethics of Mapping
Every map is an ontological assertion, staking a representational claim to some aspect of reality. Every map necessarily centers some things and excludes many things. This centering and exclusion shapes perception and constrains narratives.
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The Iteration Challenge – Part One
How can we access the potential of a Social System Map if we’re not able to keep it up-to-date?
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Notes From a Learning Journey | Laura & Phil
Notes from our Learning Journeys | Harvests about SenseMaking with Social System Maps from our Community of Practice.
Phil Metzler and Laura Kaestele discuss her perspective on what SenseMaking means to her work and for network weaving.
Exploring Methods of Generatively Iterating Our Social System Map
How do we share and invite people into this mapping potential without coercion, w/o wasting people’s time on annoying word-smithing debates, and w/o simply reinforcing a status-quo definition of reality that we may want to be moving away from? In a way that invites curiosity, where the process itself generates more insight into the community and the broader systems the community is interested in changing. In a way that inspires people to care more about one another, to want to work together on challenges large and small, and to care about keeping the map evolving and up to date?
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