Visualising the Field of Systems Change

In 2021 we set out to help visualise the field of systems practitioners by using affinity mapping to create relationships through systems change terms and language. We have mapped over 400 practitioners with 200 systems change terms and 100 systems tags and had sense-making sessions with the Illuminate Stewardship group. We have the ambition to help this map become a live resource and a valuable tool for the field. We’d like to open up conversations such as what does this map say about the field, how is it useful in your work, and how do we evolve it? The main purpose of this session will be to open up a dialogue, how it might be used as an inquiry tool and what certain snapshots can say about the field.