Designing for Systemic Change
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Product description
Transitions are urgently needed to create a sustainable and just society. But anyone working on system change knows how difficult change can be. Progress is slow, resistance is strong, and systems often fall back into old patterns.
The good news: meaningful change is possible. This book shows how designers and public‑sector innovators achieve results that truly matter.
Drawing on extensive experience, André Schaminée demonstrates how a design‑led approach can help navigate complexity, embrace the human factor, and enable organizations to build the capacity needed to realize deep change. It is widely acknowledged that organizations must change as well—in this book, Schaminée shows how to tackle that challenge.
Written in an accessible style, the book weaves together personal stories with case studies and insights from transition studies, public administration, and design. It offers both inspiration and practical tools for everyone working toward a more sustainable and just future.
Author
André Schaminée is Partner and Head of Social Design at Dutch consultancy firm TwynstraGudde. Trained as an urban planner, he earned his stripes as an entrepreneur in the cultural sector and as a project manager for large spatial planning projects. He co-founded a design network within the firm that brings together organisational science and design, creating an innovative approach to tackling complex public challenges.
Review
Designing for systemic change is a groundbreaking new contribution to public sector innovation.
Why is deep, lasting change in the systems that keep us from addressing our most complex societal challenges so elusive? In Designing for systemic change, André Schaminée asks, ”why don’t we just sort it out?” His answer is both ambitious and compelling. Through detailed case studies, he shows how governments can embrace a learning approach and apply design thinking to make real transitions happen. This is a groundbreaking new contribution to public sector innovation.” – Christian Bason, Ph.D., Co-founder, Transition Collective