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Description
Investigations into water systems have seen a renewed emphasis in recent times. Brought on by a diverse range of issues from water scarcity, urban flooding, ecological damage due to human processes, and rising sea levels, water has become an increasingly pertinent research topic. Firstly, this research project intends to investigate a methodology of how we understand and visualise water systems through a general systems thinking (GST) lens. Utilising the idea of ‘System Leverage’ as a framework, we shall explore through design-research how understanding the wider system can lead to alternative design approaches to water resilience infrastructure. A secondary goal of this research is to help develop a tool for interdisciplinary decision-making when designing water-resilience measures in a rural Irish context. This tool takes on a digital format with the aim to describe to an audience how small interventions in the landscape-system can leverage the overall water system to a beneficial outcome. These speculative interventions are described across a series of systemic scales to inform about their overall impact on the system. Future benefits from this tool may be to become an effective format for disseminating systemic interventions to an audience of stakeholders and design consultants e.g. ecologists, hydrologists.
| Keywords | General System Thinking; Design-research |
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