I suspect that 'technocrat' may be referring to first-order cybernetics control systems.
In terms of 'systems thinking for design' that is the wrong focus, which should be second-order cybernetics, i.e. the study of observing systems (= people), and SSM, or Soft Systems Methodology (=Peter Checkland), as well as Appreciative Systems (=Geoffrey Vickers), for starters ... there is also the work of Stafford Beer ...
Systems thinking and design thinking, in the modern world, should be synonymous.
Johann
a systems approach to design
I suspect that 'technocrat' may be referring to first-order cybernetics control systems.
In terms of 'systems thinking for design' that is the wrong focus, which should be second-order cybernetics, i.e. the study of observing systems (= people), and SSM, or Soft Systems Methodology (=Peter Checkland), as well as Appreciative Systems (=Geoffrey Vickers), for starters ... there is also the work of Stafford Beer ...
Systems thinking and design thinking, in the modern world, should be synonymous.
Johann