Cocreating a Mexican World Model for the 21st Century

Peter JonesDesign research, Dialogic Design, Modeling, Systemic Design

Mexican World Model: Rethinking Mexico’s future by understanding deep systemic challenges Mexican Model: a structured, systems-based framework that identifies how social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental forces interact to shape the country’s long-term trajectory. Mexico faces complex challenges that cannot be understood in isolation.Using a systemic methodology inspired by the “problematique” and Logosofia models, this project maps the interdependencies behind the country’s most pressing issues. Our goal is to create a shared, accessible understanding of Mexico’s structural dynamics one that can inform better decisions, policies, and future scenarios. Mexico has its own unique history, institutions, inequalities, and cultural structures. This work aims to build a model rooted in Mexican realities, one that speaks from within. Logosofia can be used by small research groups like ours to build models of problem systems (challenge maps) and solution formation (cross-impact maps). The Mexican world model follows this methodology and the interactive map demonstrates …

Designing a Peace Economy: Disrupting the Business Model of the War Complex

Peter JonesBusiness models, Ecological economics, Peace Economics, World Systems

Presented at International Society for Systems Sciences, ISSS 2025 PDF Presentation There is a line in Orwell’s 1984: “The war is not meant to be won, the war is meant to be continuous.” We see a major difference between classical territorial conflicts and modern warfare with the predominance of the military-industrial complex (MIC), or using Ray McGovern’s term MICIMATT (Military Industrial Congressional, Intelligence, Media, Academic, Think Tank). The MIC has overtaken its purpose of ensuring industrial readiness for war materiel and has become a goal-seeking system. We can observe the functional purpose for continuous and escalating wars in the US has been to generate capital for the investors of the MIC, in the largest public-private partnership on earth. To recognize the additionally reinforcement of the business model involving Wall Street as a flywheel to the MIC, we should add “Investors” to the term now, making this “MICIMMAT-IC.” We face moral …

Emergent Fusion of Systemic Service Design

Peter JonesService Design, Systemic Design

Recently Routledge published the edited volume titled Systemic Service Design, co-edited by me and Mari Suoheimo, Birger Sevaldson, and Sheng-Hung Lee. The 14 chapters cover a extreme range of emerging areas of study, many with fuzzy boundaries into applications that would never have been conceived as service, unless taking into account a bigger containing social system. As systemic design has expanded to develop and publish new service design studies, transition design research, socioecological, sociocultural, eco-territorial, and even spiritually-emergent design, the boundaries between these knowledge practices are blending and rhizomically connecting. From power relations to system mapping, criminality to care systems, from aging to urban planning – I would say these studies are not defining a new field, so much as mediating a conversation that enriches the design for complex service needs with a deeper understanding of the systems in which they have developed. Our schools were happy to support the …

The RSD Movement | Moment

Peter JonesRSD, Systemic Design

OK, it’s been said—RSD is like a movement. Maybe it is such a moment now. After 15 years of continuous growth and with the creative vitality of hundreds of converging studies and proposals, we might consider that design-engaging-complexity has a social movement quality. OK, it’s been said—RSD is like a movement. Maybe it is such a moment now. After 15 years of continuous growth and with the creative vitality of hundreds of converging studies and proposals, we might consider that design-engaging-complexity has a social movement quality. Wait, I’m not saying systemic design is a movement— at least I see it as a dynamic interdiscipline and practice field. And we do hold the symposium to high levels of academic quality. Yet the creative expression of the methods and learning has spread everywhere with the unrestrained innovation of a movement, with the energy gained from a constant flow of new ideas and …