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ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITYUPDATING NEXTD GEOGRAPHIES FRAMEWORKMore soon.NextD Geographies Framework 2005-2026 was c...
10/11/2026

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
UPDATING NEXTD GEOGRAPHIES FRAMEWORK

More soon.

NextD Geographies Framework 2005-2026 was created by Elizabeth Pastor & GK VanPatter of Humantific in New York, as part of a Rethinking Design Leadership community sensemaking initiative. Presented at numerous international conferences, NextD Geographies was published and explained in detail in the 2020 Humantific book "Rethinking Design Thinking / Making Sense of the Future that has Already Arrived".

Unlike other design ecology frameworks Geographies acknowledges need for methods related change and contains change drivers in the form of movement away from magic thinking and towards recognition of skill-to-scale. The framework is updated from time to time and will appear in the upcoming "Advancing Design for Complexity" book.

NextD Journal / Making Sense of Design for Complexity
www.nextd.org

ReThinking Design / The Book
https://lnkd.in/ee5k5pdg

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITYRECALIBRATING DECIPHERINGMaking Sense of Root Cause Analysis In this conversation related...
07/19/2026

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
RECALIBRATING DECIPHERING
Making Sense of Root Cause Analysis

In this conversation related to Cross-Community Think-Blending as it connects to Design for Complexity, there are still a couple of bumpy methodology related issues, so far left out, that we might now reflect upon as we begin to land this plane, still under construction. Soft Systems Thinking remains rooted in, tied to, so-called Root Cause Analysis. We might help our readers understand the difference between Deciphering in fuzzy complex situations and the activity of Root Cause Analysis.

https://www.nextd.org/post/recalibrating-deciphering

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITYRECALIBRATING THEORY OF CONSTRAINTSMaking Sense of Pre & Post Checkland Earthquake LogicB...
07/19/2026

ADVANCING DESIGN FOR COMPLEXITY
RECALIBRATING THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS
Making Sense of Pre & Post Checkland Earthquake Logic

Before we circle back to the EarthQuake conversation for a part 2 of that story there is one other sub-topic deserving a little attention from us, related to the fits and misfits of Think-Blending on route to Design for Complexity.

It is one that pops up in various SSM posts positioned as relating to “improving system performance” and that is Eliyahu Goldratt’s 1984 "Theory of Constraints”. Focusing on "leverage points" and a "five step framework to identify and leverage these constraints", seems to reflect an engineering, mechanical view of the organization as machine. "Theory of Constraints” is not seen as central to any of the other changemaking anchor approaches.

https://www.nextd.org/post/recalibrating-constraints

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