Part 1: Systems Map (24 points)
Create a systems map for the sustainability focus area aligned with your Community Engagement Requirement experience. You may create the visual electronically, using the software of your choice or you may create the visual by hand and submit a high quality photo of your map.
Begin by using the required readings to gain an understanding of systems mapping. Use this exercise to further explore the topic you have chosen.
When mapping a system, you will have to determine the appropriate boundary. Use this blog to help you think through the process of drawing a boundary. Systems Thinking Scales (Links to an external site.) You are welcome to focus on the Corvallis community or to shift your focus to your local community.
You should begin mapping by creating a brainstorm cluster map (Systems Mapping (Links to an external site.)); basically jotting down everything you can think of that relates to your chosen sustainability focus area on a sheet of paper.
Refine your systems map down to highlight the most important components (organizations, individuals, stakeholders, etc.) and impacts on the surrounding community. Consider the critical organizations in your sustainability focus area and how they interact with one another. Consider impacts within all three dimensions of sustainability.
Next, we'll connect local efforts to a global sustainability framework. After you focus on sustainability efforts at a local level, review the Sustainable Development Goals. (Links to an external site.) Choose one or two goals that are most appropriate and show how they connect conceptually to your local system. Also use the criteria below for your systems map narrative to guide your mapping.
Part 2: Systems Map Narrative (36 points)
Objective: Explain the systems map that you created and elaborate on the important components and interactions. Use the criteria below for guidance.
These criteria are adapted from a framework created by FSG, reimagining social change (Links to an external site.).
The systems maps that you generate will allow to to further reflect on your community engagement experience and the corresponding sustainability focus area. The systems map will enable you to better:
There are specific elements that we would like you to explore in each of the categories above. You must include all ‘required’ elements in your systems map narrative. You may choose which of the ‘optional’ elements to include. It will be difficult to incorporate all of this information in the systems map itself and we do not recommend that you try! Part of the process of mapping involves figuring out what information you feel is critical include in your systems map. You can elaborate on the system in your systems map narrative. Complete each section of the narrative in 1-2 paragraphs.
Section 1: Understand context
Section 2: Understand Connections
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Optional:
Section 3: Identifying patterns
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Section 4: Consider Multiple Perspectives
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