I would suggest that we can extend,
and should, this axiom to our own selves, as organizational
systems.

The reason that design is so
critical is that in order to approach design, you must look at
the
system dynamics.

Once the systems, governing
dynamics are considered, the design informs.

Now just because we think about and
in many cases feel design… does that mean we actually affect
the solutions we need?

That is where
EES comes
in…  and how we look at how design perturbs the current
system, or how the design of the current
system perturbs those in which it comes into view.

Design is of and by itself an
important idea.

It evokes many ways in which to
understand how something, and for me, is defined by the "shape
of things to come" as we discover the shape of things that
were, and are….

I’m always reminded of this quote from Ariel Durant — ‘The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.’

Helpful Hint:
Design is the lynchpin in @F-L-O-W, not
to kNOW, but to inquire, and to contemplate meaning of the
counter-intuitive… those governing dynamics that forge the
metal of sustainability.  Watch this video on

System Dyamics.

Action Step:
Take a look at this simple 4-minute video about
System Dynamics.