Weekly Updates from Si Network
Systems Innovation
We are an open network for people to connect, learn, and co-create systems innovation
Welcome to this learning session exploring our value networks guide. The event is designed to help you better understand value networks and how to develop full-value business models which account for not just the parts of a system but also the whole. By the end of the session, you should have a better understanding and capacity to work with full-cost accounting ideas, negative and positive externalities, the workings of cooperative games and service value ecosystems.
April 24th, 6pm CET
Welcome to this seminar designed to introduce you to the key tools and methods used to help people map systems and actors. During the 90-minute workshop, we will share with you the full suite of canvases around systems mapping that should be in the systems innovator's toolkit. To do this we will be drawing upon the Si Toolkit which consists of over 12 canvases.
May 2nd, 6 pm CET
This week we want to spotlight this amazing video course and booklet at the library at Si, there to help you learn one of the most essential and powerful concepts in complex theory "emergence". Understanding what emergence is and how it works is indeed critical for those interested in influencing and guiding systems change.
This will be a 75-minute exploration session into the state of systems thinking in education. During the event, we will share a short introduction to the potential of systems thinking for how we teach and organize education systems and look at what exists in terms of initiatives and useful resources.
This event is part of the Si Connect Series where we work to connect the members of the community & support collaboration. Thus the event will primarily be for networking with others interested/working in this area as well as a group discussion around key topics.
April 30th, 3 pm CET
Submissions for the first of our new "Challenge Labs" is currently open. This one will be focused on the wicked challenge of how might we develop place-based climate-resilient food systems. The lab runs over five weeks enabling a cohort of up to 25 participants to explore how systems innovation ideas and methods can be applied around this challenge.
Starting May 16th, 6pm CET
This is a 60-minute information session, hosted by The Si Design Hub with the purpose of sharing with you what this hub is about, and opening up the discussions to the intriguing questions: What is Design? What should Design be now and for the future? Also, we will be tapping into the dimension of where Design fits when we take on Systems Approaches.
May 1st, 5pm CET