Communities are systems: What can systems thinking teach us when it comes to communities?
(Kathy Reid) Many of us work with systems in our professional lives. Most likely, they take the form of cyber- or cyber-physical systems, where the constituent components - boxen, VAXen, Docksen, ESPen, are quite literally connected - possibly over some form of internet protocol. These systems may be orchestrated or organic - but always serve a purpose. They can co-operate, collide and compete with each other (and then there were 15 standards). They can operate loosely or be tightly controlled. They exist for a brief period of time (less brief if they contain COBOL), until they are disassembled, disaggregated and decommed back to electrons and e-waste.
But what about the people in those systems? How are they connected? Why are they part of the system? Or not? What roles do they serve? What are their inputs and outputs? Plot twist! Communities are systems too! The concepts we use for thinking about computer and cyber systems can also be used to uncover insights about communities, and how we go about creating, curating and concluding them.
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