Focus Area 05
Applied System Change. Where our horizontal approaches - technology, finance, democracy, knowledge - meet specific domains: housing, health, education, environment.
While our five foundational lenses provide ways of seeing and sensing systems, Impact Verticals represent the domains where we focus application - where theory meets practice, where multiple lenses work in concert to create cascading change.
The Four Verticals
Housing isn't just shelter - it's a complex socio-economic ecosystem. Affordability crises reflect systemic misalignment in land markets, finance, and governance.
Active Lenses:
Effective climate response requires transformed relationships between communities, ecosystems, and economic systems, not just new technology.
Active Lenses:
Health is shaped by social determinants - housing, connection, security. We shift investment from downstream treatment to upstream prevention.
Active Lenses:
Communities need governance structures that can learn and adapt. We support new forms of participation, deliberation, and collective intelligence.
Active Lenses:
We remain active in monitoring other systems where our approach adds value:
We're always interested in connecting with practitioners applying systems approaches in specific fields.
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