2014-07-31
Reconstructing the Blue Connection
Publication
Publication
A Systemic Inquiry into the Improbable Project of Building a New River Through a (Sub)urban Area
Systems Research and Behavioral Science , Volume 32 - Issue 6 p. 689- 706
We analysed how an improbable project of building a new river through a suburban area came to fruition after all. The project is called the 'Blue Connection'. We deployed systemic causal diagrams as a tool to visually show the structure of a system. The diagrams were derived and synthesized from interviews with participants. They then reflected upon the results. As such, the diagrams served a dual purpose: to understand why the Blue Connection project gained momentum whilst simultaneously contributing to the momentum by providing a coherent diagram of the systemic whole beyond the bounded mental models of individual actors. We identified the mechanisms that enabled or restrained the project as a complex system.
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doi.org/10.1002/sres.2297, hdl.handle.net/1765/87735 | |
Systems Research and Behavioral Science | |
Organisation | Department of Public Administration |
Vaandrager, D., Gerrits, L., & Bressers, N. (2014). Reconstructing the Blue Connection. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 32(6), 689–706. doi:10.1002/sres.2297 |