TB871: Miscellaneous CSH stuff
Note: this is a post reflecting on one of the modules of my MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice. You can see all of the related posts in this category.
This post is unashamedly a dumping ground for useful stuff from the TB871 Block 6 Tools Stream about Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) that I might want to come back and reference at some point — potentially in an upcoming assignment.
But then [a systems thinking practitioner], when he becomes very serious about his own models, in which ‘all’ of the objectives are represented and a ‘proper’ compromise is created, is also deceived. In the straight-faced seriousness of his approach, he forgets many things: basic human values and his own inability really to understand all aspects of the system, and especially its politics.
(Churchman, 1968, p. 227, quoted in The Open University, 2020a)
References
- The Open University (2020a) ‘Countering traps of thinking’, TB871 Block 6 Tools stream [Online]. Available at https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=2261503§ion=3.1.2 (Accessed 23 August 2024).
- The Open University (2020b) ‘6.2.3 Understanding a reference system’, TB871 Block 6 Tools stream [Online]. Available at https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=2261503§ion=3.3 (Accessed 23 August 2024).
- The Open University (2020c) ‘6.2.6 Understanding descriptive CSH mapping’, TB871 Block 6 Tools stream [Online]. Available at https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=2261503§ion=3.6 (Accessed 23 August 2024).
- The Open University (2020d) ‘6.2.7 Understanding boundary critique’, TB871 Block 6 Tools stream [Online]. Available at https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=2261503§ion=3.7 (Accessed 23 August 2024).
