Distinctions and Analogies: Mapping Social System Identity
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This document introduces the regime shift canvas, a tool for mapping social systems and transitions between systems. It provides examples of how the canvas can be used to represent the current dominant social logic/attractor of a system and potential alternative logics/attractors. The canvas is based on theories of social transformation, complexity/resilience, and design thinking. It aims to support strategic mapping of transformative futures by standardizing representations of "what is" and "what might be" for a social system.
Distinctions and Analogies: Mapping Social System Identity
- 1. Distinctions and analogies: mapping social system identity (the regime shift canvas in theory and practice) Howard Silverman and Crystal Rome www.regimeshiftcanvas.org RSD7 24-26 OCT 2018
- 2. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — Bucky Fuller (attributed) “At all events, we shall not cure the Moderns of their attachment to their cherished theme, the modernization front, if we do not offer them an alternate narrative made of the same stuff as the Master Narratives whose era is over—or so some have claimed, perhaps a bit too hastily.” — Bruno Latour Illustration: Shannon Wheeler http://www.tmcm.com/tmcm/ quote: Latour, B. 2013:22. An inquiry into modes of existence. image (CC) adapted from: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour social transformation diminish one system by developing another
- 3. social transformation: Is “narrative” the only relevant factor? How have social factors or logics been characterized? • root metaphor • sources of legitimacy • sources of authority • sources of identity • basis of norms • basis of attention • basis of strategy • informal control mechanisms • economic system • reproduction • metamorphosis • habit • technology • fiction • reference • politics • law • religion • attachment • organization • mortality • network • preposition • double click institutional logics Patricia Thornton et al. leverage points Donella Meadows modes of existence Bruno Latour Donald Schön • structure • technology • theory Schön, D. 1971. Beyond the stable state. The Norton Library, New York, NY, USA. Meadows, D. 2008. Thinking in systems: a primer. Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT, USA. Thornton, P., W. Ocasio, and M. Lounsbury. 2012. The institutional logics perspective: a new approach to culture, structure, and process. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Latour, B. 2013. An inquiry into modes of existence : an anthropology of the moderns. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA. (This updated list of modes or crossings accessed 29SEP18 from: modesofexistence.org/.) • structure • culture Archer, M. 1995. Realist social theory: the morphogenic approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Margaret Archer • structure • culture • practices Rotmans, J. and D. Loorbach. 2009. Complexity and transition management. Journal of Industrial Ecology 13(2):184-196. Jan Rotmans & Derk Loorbach 12 parameters 11 buffers 10 stock-and-flows 9 delays 8 balancing feedbacks 7 reinforcing feedbacks 6 information 5 rules 4 self-organizing capacities 3 goals 2 paradigms 1 (transcending paradigms)
- 4. transformation in complexity/resilience theory a social attractor as a constellation of factors or logics social attractor (a constellation of factors or logics) focal system described with landscape model alternative basin of attraction (regime) dominant basin of attraction (regime) social attractor (a constellation of factors or logics) as described in this paper:
- 5. an example from the 2018 headlines Dominant social factors or logics vary among systems. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/9/14/17853884/ utilities-renewable-energy-100-percent-public-opinion dominant logics institutional structures (utilities) focal system U.S. electricity provision alternative logics public values shifting dominant regime fossil fuel generation alternative regime renewable generation “Utilities have a problem: the public wants 100% renewable energy, and quick” — David Roberts, 16 SEP 2018, Vox
- 6. complexity/resilience theory mapped to design theory landscape model to bridge model imagine by analogy alignpurpose, informaction existing reality model of what is model of what might be bridge model If we can describe the logics (and their inter-relationships) of the dominant social system… then perhaps we might “imagine by analogy” the logics (and their inter-relationships) of an alternative. transformative future reality representas Bridge model adapted from: Dubberly, H., S. Evenson, and R. Robinson. 2008. The analysis-synthesis bridge model. Interactions (XV.2).
- 7. strategic mapping of transformative futures standardized as a regime shift canvas
- 8. example of the canvas in use what is >> what might be Ophir El-Boher, Pacific Northwest College of Art 2019 https://www.instagram.com/ophir.el/ mapping based on personal experience and aspirations
- 9. compare, so as to inform efforts in target represent reference context model of reference model of target reference < > target target context represent mapping social system identity variations on the bridge model: reference < > target Crystal Rome, Pacific Northwest College of Art 2015 https://www.crystaljunerome.com/ mapping based on interviews with AICAD leadership and membership (http://aicad.org/)
- 10. compare, so as to inform efforts to reach alignment represent person #1 perspective divergent perspectives person #2 perspective represent s i t u a t i o n experience experience model #1 model #2 mapping social system identity variations on the bridge model: divergent perspectives Geoffrey Vickers: Identity and Continuity “My home town remains for me its old self though it has vastly grown and changed, and I have long since ceased to live there. “But if some other old inhabitant said that for him it was no longer the same place, I should not assume that he or I must be wrong. “I should only assume that some relationships now lacking were for him essential to the system called by that city’s name, whilst for me they were not.” Vickers, G. 1980:82. Responsibility – its sources and limits. Intersystems Publications, Seaside, CA, USA.
- 11. compare represent context #1 model #1 model #2 hybrid or bricolage context #2 represent hybrid model bricolage mapping social system identity variations on the bridge model: hybrid or bricolage Amelia Bauerly, Pacific Northwest College of Art 2019 http://www.ameliabauerly.com/ mapping based on interview with Caldera staff (http://calderaarts.org)
- 12. howard@solvingforpattern.org www.regimeshiftcanvas.org Distinctions and analogies: mapping social system identity Download the canvas and share your experiences with us. compare, so as to inform efforts to reach alignment represent person #1 perspective Divergent Perspectives person #2 perspective represent s i t u a t i o n experience experience model #1 model #2 Tell us about your variations on the bridge model.