# Systemic Design Toolkit
## What is it?
The Systemic Design Toolkit was officially launched at the RSD7 conference in Turin by a collaboration between [**Namahn**](https://namahn.com/) and [**shiftN**](https://shiftn.com/). This toolkit provides a set of systems and design thinking tools to support a coherent, but flexible and collaborative process to understand complex problems and design more viable alternatives.
## What is it useful for?
* Identifying leverage points
* Applying participatory tools
* Co-creation of solutions with different stakeholders (from government to private organisations)
* Create alignment among different ideas
* Creating visualizations tools and prototyping
## Description from Authors:
The toolkit was developed from the understanding that the current society is in the midst of a fundamental shift where the conventional ways of problem solving don’t work anymore. In this sense, this toolkit provides step by step and hands-on tools to analyze complex challenges and co-create systemic solutions following seven main steps:
### Framing the system
Setting the boundaries of your system in space and time and identifying the hypothetical parts and relationships.
### Listening to the system
Listening to the experiences of people and discovering how the interactions lead to the system’s behaviour. Verifying the initial hypotheses.
### Understanding the system
Seeing how the variables and interactions influence the dynamics and emergent behaviour. Identifying the leverage points to work with.
### Defining the desired future
Helping the stakeholders articulate the common desired future and the intended value creation.
### Exploring the possibility space
Exploring possible ideas for intervening on the leverage points. Empowering the ideas by working with the paradoxes in the system.
### Designing the intervention model
Defining the engine for change and its variations. Iterating by envisioning its implementation in different contexts.
### Fostering the transition
Defining how the interventions will mature, grow and finally be adopted in the system.
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