Systems Thinking in Design: Service Design and self-Services

Forfattere

  • John Darzentas Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering
  • Jenny Siobhane Darzentas Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering University of the Aegean

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.802

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

systems thinking, service design, self-services, Design for All, accessibility, design thinking, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity

Sammendrag

The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it seeks to use a practical real-world example to demonstrate the power of a systems thinking perspective in design, and more specifically in the design of services. It makes use of the paradigm of e-accessibility, in the application domain of publicly available self-services. Secondly, the benefits of this perspective will be discussed, through some theoretical tenets of systems thinking, such as the use of emerging properties, the law of requisite variety and notions of second order cybernetics, in terms of the richness that they offer to the conceptualisation and praxis of design in general, and service design in particular. Finally, we speculate on the implications of systems thinking to question the nature of the interdisciplinarity and even transdisciplinarity of design.

Forfatterbiografier

John Darzentas, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering

Head of Department, Professor

University of the Aegean

Jenny Siobhane Darzentas, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering University of the Aegean

LecturerDepartment of Product and Systems Design Engineering

Nedlastinger

Publisert

2014-12-16

Hvordan referere

Darzentas, J., & Darzentas, J. S. (2014). Systems Thinking in Design: Service Design and self-Services. FormAkademisk, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.802

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