Systems Thinking

Information & Universal Design @ NID Bangalore 2026

Summary Documents

• Summary Board: Figma Jam
• Projects & Participants: Google Sheet
• Peer Learning: Google Sheet

Project Work

• Sketchnote: Read a book on Systems and create a sketchnote.
  • Update details of the book (title, level, recommendation, notes) in the Google Sheet
  • Add your book sketchnote in this FigJam
• Mini Project: Create a static A3 sized Holistic System Poster for your system
  • Add your group names, topic and title for your project in the Google Sheet
  • Add the weblink to the final artifact.

References

• System Thinking: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
• Article: The Leverage Points- Places to Intervene in a System
• Learning Organisation: The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
• Visual Communication: Books on Visual Facilitation Series by David Sibbet
• Examples for Holistic System Views: Look at StoryMaps
• Structure in Thinking: The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto

Topics

• Systems Mapping
  • Introduction
  • System Primitives
• Systems Sensemaking
  • Causal Loop Diagrams
  • Stock & Flows Diagram
  • Behaviour for Time
  • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Iceberg Model
  • System Archetypes
• Systems Intervention
  • Leverage
  • Horizon