In the spring I will be teaching a Systems class at CCA. I will be integrating systems which covers systems, mapping, information architecture with social interface design thinking as well since so much of developing a social design with reputation, identity, privacy, engagement and activities is essentially systems thinking. So while the mechanics are going to be basic systems, the perspective and content will be social interface focused.
Here is the reading list I am working with to develop the curriculum and for assigned readings to the students.
Systems
Intertwingled
Peter Morville
Semantic Studios
Thinking In Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Chelsea Green Publishing
The Systems Thinking Playbook
Linda Booth Sweeney & Donella H. Meadows
Chelsea Green Publishing
Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Senge
Crown Business
Leverage Points, Places to Intervene in a System
Donella Meadows
Sustainability Institute
A Systems Literacy Manifesto
Hugh Dubberly
Talk presented at RSD3 2014 Symposium—Relating Systems Thinking and Design 3 Oslo 17 October 2014
www.dubberly.com/presentations/system_literacy.pdf
Information Architecture & Modeling
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
Abby Covert
Hats
Richard Saul Wurman
Design Quarterly, 145
Mapping Experiences
James Kalbach
O’Reilly Media
Starbucks Platform – The pdf is wonderful!
Article – http://www.dubberly.com/articles/starbucks-drink-platform.html
PDF – http://www.dubberly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ddo_article_starbucksplatform.pdf
Hugh Dubberly, Dubberly Design Office
A Taxonomy of Models Used in the Design Process
Joanne Mendel
http://www.dubberly.com/articles/taxonomy-of-models.html
Social
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
Oxford Press
A Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
Oxford Press
Designing Social Interfaces
Christian Crumlish & Erin Malone
O’Reilly Media
Games To Play
Systems Thinking Design Pack – exercises for the classroom
Institute of Play
http://www.instituteofplay.org/work/projects/q-design-packs/q-systems-thinking-design-pack/
http://www.instituteofplay.org/
http://www.instituteofplay.org/work/projects/systems-thinking-games/
The Shape of Change
The Shape of Change: Stocks and Flows
Rob Quaden and Alan Ticotsky
Games and exercises for the classroom
Creative Learning Exchange
http://www.clexchange.org/
Pandemic, Forbidden Island & Forbidden Desert
by Matt Leacock
Social Mania
by Erin Malone & Christian Crumlish
Videos
Cautionary Tale
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html
TED Talk Make Data More Human