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The design of any human activity requires the intervention of several different inquiring systems where the manager, the engineer, the scientist, the epistemologist, the ethicist and the artist, contribute to shape how problems in the real-world are formulated, how decisions to solve problems are taken, and, fmally, how actions are implemented.
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van Gigch, J.P. (2003). A Pluralistic Approach to Artefact Design. In: Metadecisions. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0097-1_1
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