Disrupting governance by Systemic Design and co-creating the public value

Massive transformations characterize our current era at a multidimensional level, and our governments worldwide are facing the urgency to translate this complexity into a manageable common strategy. Strong synergies and cooperation on a quadruple-helix model are identified as primary conditions to build value for society. In that view, systemic perspectives and participatory methodologies - which Systemic Design combines - can trigger innovative processes of sharing knowledge and experiences among different stakeholders and can build innovation in the public sector. This paper investigates how Systemic Design methodology can be used for a governance “paradigm shift” for value creation, on a long term perspective. Such a method opens the way to a more adaptive and co-creative innovation in policy-design processes, by exploring new ways and tools provided by design, which enable broader and collaborative access to public governance. Applying a systemic perspective into those strategies means to favor a type of governance, whose outcomes are iterative and autopoietic, creating endurable public value.