Social Systems and Design / Edited by Gary S. Metcalf

1 Creating Social Systems (Gary S. Metcalf).- 2 An Epic Learning Journey: From the Club of Rome to Dialogic Design Science and DEMOSOPHIA (Alexander N. Christakis).- 3 Cybernetics of Governance: The Cybersyn Project 1971-1973 (Raul Espejo).- 4 Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social Systems (Peter H. Jones).- 5 The Theory and Practice of Third Phase Science (Ken C. Bausch).- 6 Designing the Means for Governing the Commons (Thomas R. Flanagan).- 7 Co-laboratories of Democracy: Best Choices for Designing Sustainable Futures (Yiannis Laouris, Kevin M. C. Dye, Marios Michaelides, and Alexander, N. Christakis).- 8 Better Late than Never: Open Systems Theory's Plan to Deal with Climate Change (Merrelyn Emery).- 9 Social Systems Design in Organizational Change (Doug Walton).

It explores connections between design and systems ideas to explain why some efforts have been more successful than others, and what is needed if we are to move forward. Examples date back to the Club of Rome in the 1960s and look forward to the creation of ecologically sustainable systems in the future.