# Systems & complexity

## CONVERGE Insights

* **Be context-sensitive -** understand that each tool has contexts in which they will and won’t work.<br>
* **Access to knowledge -** understand where the knowledge of the system is held. Who has access to it? Can you make that knowledge more accessible?<br>
* **Notice what’s missing -** gaps are information too. Connections and lack of them.

  Inside and outside - include both exterior and interior systems in your maps.

## Present questions

* How can we know which mapping system to use in which context?<br>
* How can we be accessible without being reductive?<br>
* How might we build a shared language and models with indigenous communities?<br>
* What are ways to get technical practice like systems mapping to resonate with everyone? Not just practitioners but also people with lived experience, funders and decision-makers?

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## **Provocations for your lab**

**What and who are you including in your map?** Whose voice is included and excluded?\
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**What are the different ways of knowing and experiencing systems?** How is your mapping process emphasizing masculine or left-brain ways of knowing based on data, information and abstract concepts vs feminine or right-brain ways of knowing based on intuition, emotion and artistic expression?
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* [**FSG’s Systems Thinking Toolkit**](https://www.fsg.org/tools-and-resources/systems-thinking-toolkit-0)
  * [Guide to Actor Mapping](http://fsg.org/tools-and-resources/guide-actor-mapping)
  * [Guide to Appreciative Inquiry](http://fsg.org/tools-and-resources/guide-appreciative-inquiry)
  * [Guide to Ecocycle Mapping](http://fsg.org/tools-and-resources/guide-ecocycle-mapping)
  * [Guide to Timeline Mapping](http://fsg.org/tools-and-resources/guide-timeline-mapping)
  * [Guide to Trend Mapping](http://fsg.org/tools-and-resources/guide-trend-mapping)<br>
* [**Government of Canada Foresight Training System Mapping**](http://www.horizons.gc.ca/en/content/module-4-system-mapping-presentation)<br>
* [**Alberta CoLab Systems Thinking Info Sheet**](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-U8w82ez7SdmoJhcT1kNa27dsltEvThZ)<br>
* [**Three Horizon Mapping Guide**](http://www.h3uni.org/resource_library/index.php?title=Three_Horizon_Mapping_Guide)
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