[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# S.2 Systems thinking patterns

Brandsberg-Engelmann et al., 2025, Regenerative Economics — Education

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

This textbook module explicitly teaches DSRP as the four core patterns of systems thinking and provides exercises for applying all four patterns to objects, economic institutions, parks, and everyday systems.

## What they found (results)

Systems thinking is presented as the emergent result of four patterns — distinctions, systems, relationships, perspectives — each walked through in turn, with figures used by permission from the lab.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A section of the online Regenerative Economics textbook teaching the four patterns as the basis of systems thinking.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://www.regenerativeeconomics.earth/regenerative-economics-textbook/s-systems-thinking-and-models/s-2-systems-thinking-patterns)