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Co-Design, Volume I
Co-Design, Volume I
Practical Ideas for Learning
Across Complex Systems
Mark Gatenby
Stefan Cantore
Co-Design, Volume I: Practical Ideas for Learning Across Complex Systems
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Abstract
Learning is fundamental to organizing in complex systems. This book
provides a guide to co-designing learning environments and relation-
ships. The authors begin by revisiting what learning means in living sys-
tems. Their experiences with business organizations and formal education
systems have led to the conclusion that learning has been lost from view
in many complex systems. The authors briefly trace the history of ideas
about learning to give new energy and focus for co-designing learning.
The chapters that follow focus on practical ideas. Each chapter centers on
a theme that is explored through a collection of short pieces—presented
as ideas, theories, stories, approaches, and methods. For those interested
in new ways to think about learning, both individually and collectively,
this book comes at the right time. It has been written with a diverse read-
ership in mind. Those who are professionals working in any field, at the
beginning or toward the end of their careers, organizational or system
leaders, organizational consultants, designers, or educators will all find
valuable ideas and practices. Those involved in designing formal educa-
tion environments will find fresh ideas for curricula and approaches for
cocreating learning experiences.
Keywords
Co-design; Complex Systems; Design; Education; Ideas; Leadership
Learning; Organizations; Practice
Contents
Series Introduction .................................................................................ix
Introduction ..........................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments .................................................................................xiii
Chapter 1 Revisiting Learning ...........................................................1
Chapter 2 Beginnings ......................................................................15
Chapter 3 Mindset ..........................................................................25
Chapter 4 Inquiry ............................................................................35
Chapter 5 Boundaries ......................................................................47
Chapter 6 Situation .........................................................................63
Chapter 7 Place ...............................................................................75
Chapter 8 Scaffolding ......................................................................87
Chapter 9 Self-managing .................................................................99
Chapter 10 Adulthood .....................................................................109
Chapter 11 Becoming ......................................................................123
Chapter 12 Closing: I’m Too Busy to Learn .....................................131
About the Authors ...............................................................................141
Index .................................................................................................143
Series Introduction
This book is part of a series on the subject of co-design in complex sys-
tems. Taken together, the three volumes provide a guide to practical ideas
about co-designing as a way of organizing in living systems:
• Volume 1 focusses on ideas and practices that enhance Learning
throughout our lives.
• Volume 2 considers how Design practices shape the systems we
create and experience together.
• Volume 3 offers insight into Developing mindsets and behaviors
needed to work effectively with co-design.
While each volume stands on its own, and may attract readers from
different professional backgrounds, we believe the series as a whole is
more than the sum of its parts. A practitioner or student who explores
the landscape of all three volumes will find themselves better equipped
to think and act in complex systems—like business, politics, health care,
and education.
The marketplace for ideas has no shortage of introductory guides to
managing and leading in organizations. This series is distinctive for the
specific reason that it looks beyond individual organizations, using a sys-
tems lens to bring together domains that have remained apart. A complex
systems perspective, as we apply it, looks at things together in the short
term and the long term, the big and the small, and the dynamically in-
terconnected. By exploring how to combine the domains of design and
development with learning, practitioners can find new confidence in how
to work effectively within the most challenging of professional contexts.
