UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM DESIGN
Systems Design involves comprehending how elements, considered as systems, exert influence on each other within a whole. Approaching problem-solving through systems thinking entails viewing challenges as components of an overall system, rather than simply responding to specific parts, outcomes, or events, which could inadvertently contribute to unintended consequences.
This approach is versatile and applicable across various research domains, having been utilized in the examination of medical, environmental, political, economic, human resources, and educational systems, among others.
SYSTEMS DRAWINGS
CATEGORY: SYSTEM DESIGN
TASK 1
Imagine privacy, security, comfort and independence as representative of an equilibrium condition in a larger system inside a residence in your memories.
Draw a map/plan of this house, explaining the nature of the relationships between the various rooms and the kinds of human relationships that this house, with its layout, may have fostered.
TASK 2
Identify how the equilibrium condition (comfort security, privacy or independence) is a dynamic equilibrium condition in the house you live in in the present. That is to say, establish how this equilibrium condition is re-established everyday over a period of time. To do this identify some key system elements that keep this equilibrium going by balancing feedback loops.
SCENARIO 1 : LIVING ALONE AT HOME
SCENARIO 2 : HOUSE KEEPER'S WORK TIME
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SCENARIO 3 : LIVING AT HOME WITH FAMILY
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SCENARIO 4 : LIVING WITH GUESTS