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