intention & focus:

o Capacity to design social systems
that are significant, essential
and whole.

o Transform organizations into
design competent organizations

o Ability to serve the common
good through community
systems design

o Develop leadership character
through design competence –
the praxis of intention.

o Capacity to use systems
thinking in reflective inquiry
and productive action.

o Capacity to create the expected
unexpected outcome.

o Confidence to serve – to stand on
one’s own on behalf of others.

clients

IBS

programs

an invitation to learn more about
systems thinking & design as foundations for:
intentional change
in social systems design

Learning Activities: courses & salon

1. Systems Thinking

o introduction to social systems theories
o systems inquiry & research
o systems thinking & social systems applications.

2. Design - The Practice of Intention

o introduction to social systems design
o design theories and praxis
o design of the designer

3. Making a Case for Design; a Dialogue

o foundations
real, ideal & true
service
wholeness
creativity
o fundamentals
desiderata vs. problems
imagination & analysis
judgment & decision
composition
innovation


Costs:

1. Intro to Systems - tuition: $650.00
materials: $ 35.00

2. Intro to Design - tuition: $650.00
materials: $ 35.00

3. Design Dialogue - tuition: $780.00
materials: $ 45.00

Please register by Dec. 29, 2000


Please note:
Class sizes are limited to 15. .

Time and Dates:

1. Systems Thinking
6:30-8:30 p.m., Tuesdays.
Jan 16, 30, Feb 13, 27,
Mar 13, 27

2. Design
6:30-8:30 p.m., Thursdays.
Jan 18, Feb 1, 15, Mar 1, 15, 29

3. Making a Case for Design - Dialogue
6:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays
Jan 12, 26, Feb 9, 23, Mar 9, 23,
Apr 6, 20



Location:
1907 Queen Anne Ave. North
2nd Flr., Drachen Fndt.
Seattle, Washington



Faculty:

Harold G. Nelson, Ph.D., M.Arch.
Dr. Nelson is founder of the Center for Advanced Studies in Design and Systems Thinking, is president of the International Society for Systems Science and is president and co-founder of the Advanced Design Institute. Dr. Nelson graduated with distinction from the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Social Systems Design.



Registration form:

__Systems Thinking

__Design

__Design Dialogue


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Phone________________________

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send form & make payment to:

Harold G. Nelson
Center for Advanced Studies in Design and Systems Thinking
2442 N. W. Market St., #112
Seattle, WA 98107

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