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Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens
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The concept of ecological organisations was first shared by Anna-Marie Swan in 2023 when she released the first version of the Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens (2.0) into Creative Commons. Since then, she has been joyfully discovering that the enquiry into organisations as ecological is actually the enquiry into humans as ecological.
Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens is the first organisational design lens to incorporate systems thinking, living systems, animism, decentralised and participatory governance and decision-making, self- and shared-enquiry, organisational design, the more-than-human, and the natural/physical world.
Released into Creative Commons in 2023, the design lens offers organisations a systemic approach to navigating relational complexity. It offers deep-dive questions designed to ignite enquiry into the form and feel of each organisation’s unique ecology, as well as their relationships within wider ecosystems and social systems, in a way that leaves space for discovery but also offers direction. The questions guides users into discovering the worldviews, processes, ideas, and actions that could help them become more ecological organisations.
This work has received a wonderful amount of interest and excitement (including being shared with students at the University of Portland as a guide to neighbourhood regeneration!). People share that they appreciate how the design lens ignites ongoing individual and organisational enquiry instead of offering static answers.
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This free Notion site has been set up to house all of the ecological organisations information and links in one place.
Head to **Ecological Organisations: A Design Lens** to explore and download the most recent version of the lens. You’ll find a PDF version, for easy zooming in and out, as well as poster versions with bleeds and without.
Head to **Educational Materials** for links to articles and videos about the design lens and the underlying concept of ecological organisations, including a link to a miro board where you can explore the lineage of this work.
Head to Guidelines for Use to understand the Creative Commons license that this work is released under and that all users are required to adhere to.
Head to **Funding and Partnerships** to view current funding and partnership needs.
Head to About Anna-Marie & Contact to read more about Anna-Marie’s background, along with her other work focuses and to reach out about partnerships, collaborations, or client work.
Head to FAQs to read more about how to utilise the design lens, why it was designed in the first place, and the kind of work Anna-Marie does.
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