A Review of The Art of Interconnected Thinking: Tools and Concepts for a New Approach to Tackling Complexity, Munich, Germany: MCB Verlag, 2007:
The original aim of this review, first published in 2005 in the Journal of Research Practice, was to introduce English speaking readers to a book that at the time had appeared in German language only. The book summed up the work of Frederic Vester, an author who since the 1970s had written a number of bestselling books on the need for changing our ways of thinking about complex systems. These books, along with TV programs, exhibitions, and didactic tools for schools that Vester produced, contributed much to the popularity of what in the German language area came to be called vernetztes Denken, meaning as much as „interconnected thinking“ or, more literally, „thinking in terms of networks.“ Two years after the publication of the review, an English translation of the book was published, based on a newer, extended edition of the German text. The present, updated and extended version of the review adapts its terminology to that of the translation, provides an adapted and somewhat more substantial introduction to its content, and also offers updated references and links to online sources for Vester’s work.
