ABSTRACT
Innovations in practices and institutions to enact systemic governing are explored. These require changes in the relationship between practice and institutions, which call for a ‘design turn’ involving the praxis of systemic designing. A set of systemic design principles are outlined. Examples of practice and institutional innovations able to contribute to systemic governing are provided, as is a case study of organisational reform based on systems thinking in practice (STiP). Taking a design turn is a second-order process that designs novel institutions, tools or practices as well as the affordances of the situations for their conduct or use. Institutions need affordances that enable STiP to flourish.
