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# Exercise: How do *You* Explore a System?
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/exercise-how-do-you-explore-what-a-system-does-2/
- Published: 2025-01-15T20:15:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-15T22:25:25.000Z
- Description: A swift thinking exercise – 15 minutes
- Author: James Lyndsay
- Tags: Exercises

*5 mins to build, 10 mins to debrief*

**Don't make this general: make it as personal as you can.**

### Build – 5 mins, partly private

- Consider: *How do *You* Explore a System?*
- Make your own list away from the board, on your own. Fast and short is good. If you immediately think of a long list, prefer variety over completeness or innovation or impressiveness.
- Add those items to the board, introducing them to your partners

### Debrief – 10 mins, mostly public

- In groups or individually: if you see stuff which goes together, draw and label a circle for that grouping, and put them in
- If something you want for a circle has moved to another, duplicate it and put it where you want it. Draw a line between if you like.
- Let the groupings and their contents talk to you. If something's missing from a grouping, add it.

When activity subsides, we'll gather as a whole and talk.

Stuck? I've got a [short and general list of ways](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exploring-without-requirements/#Waystoexplorewithoutrequirements). If you're using one of the BlackBox Puzzles as a thing to think about, you'll find a more-focused list in [Exploring the BlackBox Puzzles](https://www.workroom-productions.com/exploring-the-blackbox-puzzles/).

*Variants – think about how you explore what a system* does*, then how you explore what it* is*. Or let the group reveal those differences (and others) for itself.*