Our Services

Our approach

A systemic way to unlock complexity

At the core of Systemica’s work lies the Modal Matrix Process Approach (MMPA) — a systemic framework designed to explore interrelations, temporal dynamics, and leverage points in complex urban contexts.

The MMPA does not offer predefined solutions. It supports better questions, deeper understanding, and more responsible action.

Systemica Urban Impact provides transdisciplinary and integrated consultancy to institutions, decision-makers, professionals, municipalities, and private organisations operating in complex urban and territorial contexts.

Our work supports the co-creation of coherent strategies and actions by engaging with complexity rather than simplifying it. We help clients understand interdependencies, navigate uncertainty, and align decisions across spatial, social, economic, environmental, and institutional dimensions.

With over twenty years of experience across public administration, professional practice, research, and international collaboration, Systemica brings a systemic and time-oriented perspective to urban challenges. This perspective enables us to address not only immediate issues, but also their long-term implications and unintended effects.

Systemica supports clients in:

developing long-term strategic and spatial visions
framing and managing complex, multi-actor projects
exploring sustainable and circular development pathways
assessing systemic impacts of policies, plans, and investments
designing and facilitating learning processes and capacity building

Whether working on strategic planning, infrastructure and resource optimisation, organisational transformation, new business models, or team training, Systemica provides structured guidance grounded in systems thinking and practice.

Systemica Urban Impact works to make complexity intelligible and actionable — supporting responsible decisions and meaningful change towards more sustainable futures.

Systemic support for complex urban challenges

Systemica Urban Impact provides transdisciplinary and integrated consultancy for institutions, decision-makers, professionals, municipalities, and organisations operating in complex urban and territorial contexts.

Our services are grounded in a systemic and time-oriented approach that engages with complexity rather than reducing it. We support our clients in understanding interdependencies, navigating uncertainty, and developing coherent strategies and actions across multiple dimensions and time horizons.

1. Systemic Urban Reading

Understanding complexity before acting

Complex urban challenges often remain difficult to address because the problem itself is not clearly framed.

Systemic Urban Reading supports a structured exploration of urban contexts by:

mapping key dimensions (spatial, social, economic, environmental, institutional, cultural)
identifying interrelations, tensions, and feedback loops
exploring temporal dynamics across past, present, and future

This service creates a shared understanding of complexity and provides a solid foundation for strategic decisions and action.

Explore a systemic reading of your context
An informal first step to clarify complexity before acting.

2. Strategic Framing & Decision Support

Supporting coherent and responsible choices

Decisions in complex contexts generate impacts beyond their immediate scope and over time.

Through Strategic Framing and Decision Support, Systemica helps clients to:

explore strategic options and scenarios
assess systemic implications of policies, plans, and investments
identify leverage points and potential unintended effects
align decisions across sectors, scales, and time horizons

This service supports decision-makers in navigating uncertainty and making informed, coherent choices.

Discuss strategic implications
A reflective conversation around decisions, impacts,

and long-term direction.

3. Systemic Facilitation & Learning Labs

Building shared understanding and capacity to act

Complex challenges often involve multiple actors with different perspectives, values, and roles.

Systemic Facilitation and Learning Labs provide structured spaces to:

foster dialogue and collective sense-making
support participatory and co-creation processes
build systemic awareness and learning capacity
align actors around shared challenges and directions

These facilitated processes transform complexity into a resource for collaboration and action.

Design a learning lab or facilitated process
Tailored workshops for multi-actor

and complex environments.

Systemica Urban Impact works to make complexity intelligible and actionable — supporting sustainable change through systemic insight and practice.

Discover the MMPA
Learn how our method supports understanding

and action in complex contexts.

Systemica Urban Impact operates as a strategic and research-based partner. It does not provide architectural design or technical services. All design authorship and statutory responsibilities remain with the appointed architect and design team.

Systemica Urban Impact Managing Urban Complexity through Systemic Insight