David Mora’s work (hi!):

Existing resources/inspiration for Systems storytelling media:

Written work

• NRhythm’s Moving from Principles to Patterns

Examples of systems storytelling:

• NYTimes explains how the Pandemic created a shipping / supply chain nightmare with a scrollytelling article & building out an arrow-y diagram. See also :

Articles

• Rudi O'Reilly Meehan—Storytelling with Systems (Talk, Outlier 2023): less story, and more just a
• What Is “Systems Storytelling,” and How Can It Help Us Learn?: “The Wire” as Gateway Drug: lists a lot of forms of systems storytelling
• The Systems Thinker (book, now free website of articles)
• Another Way to Tell a Story: Sociological vs Psychological Storytelling: what it is, how to do it
• Zeynep Tufekci on the need for Sociological Storytelling (eg G.O.T.): as individuals, it's easier to tell psychological / individual stories. But given that incentives & structures make the biggest difference, we need to shift our imagination.
  • "Whether done well or badly, the psychological/internal genre leaves us unable to understand and react to social change. Arguably, the dominance of the psychological and hero/antihero narrative is also the reason we are having such a difficult time dealing with the current historic technology transition."

Misc examples/inspiration:

• Pudding Article: How artists get paid on streaming sevices. Interactive illustration of the flow of money through a system, lets you tweak how flow gets divvied up
• NYTimes: How the Supply Chain Crisis Unfolded (scrollytelling, causal loop diagram)

People & Entities

• Brett Victor (talks)
  • Seeing Spaces: imagining spaces that, like wood shops or kitchens, surround you with tools to immediately understand and interact with the system you’re building.
  • Media for thinking the unthinkable