Synthesis in a new age: A role for system scientists in the age of design

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Ongoing research in generic design science has provided evidence regarding its capacity to make valuable contributions towards the resolution of the global problématique. This paper defines and clarifies a role for systems scientists in the context of these contributions. The results of an actual generic design session exploring this role in the context of a global problématique is presented for discussion to further work towards implementing generic design science in the systems science community.We have heard our age described as the age of systems, the information age, and the post‐industrial age. While it may be all of these things, it is surely an age of design. Design is the manifestation of our knowledge and feelings, as translated into the great variety of artifacts that modify our way of life. Design is a process of creating alternatives to augment those provided by nature.Warfield [12, p. 725]

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