With today being the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, & this year's theme #InvestinPeace, we've been sitting with what that phrase actually means from a systems perspective. What does "Invest in Peace" mean for you? Have you ever seen any systems maps around peace-building? #systemsthinking

Kumu Project of the Week: What is design actually becoming? 240+ articles + 900 courses mapped as a network → six themes, 19 emerging topics. Read the publication: buff.ly/uaErMpo How do you keep up with emerging thought patterns in your field? #systemsthinking #dataviz #kumu #designthinking

Project of the Week: Who Gets Seen as an “Expert”? NORRAG’s #TheSouthAlsoKnows Expert Database maps education experts across the Global South, while making the map itself easy to navigate with built-in tips and filters. A thoughtful use of systems mapping for knowledge equity. buff.ly/EQdIQMU

Climate, Pollution and Politics - why have we made so little progress in responding to climate change? If, like me, you would like to know then you might be interested in this: kumu.io/alex-morriso... With thanks to @kumu.io for the tooling and @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for the original insight.

Kumu Project of the Week! This project adapts a USAID Uganda market system map to focus on access to finance for smallholder farmers. A strong example of applied systems thinking. Explore: buff.ly/M1EFg8T #systemsthinking #poweredbykumu

How does Open Science actually show up across Europe? This project maps national policies across areas like access, data, and governance, showing where coverage is strong, partial, or missing. Instead of reading policies one by one, you can see the system. 🔗 buff.ly/Sbo8i6o #OpenScience #Kumu

New blog post! A look at some of the most creative and most-visited projects from last year, from Crowd-Pleasers to the Iteration League, Templates, & more. Across all of them, a shared courage to move beyond linear thinking & work through complexity by focusing on connections. 🔗 buff.ly/BstJgHS

Project of the Week: Building Climate-Resilient Jute Systems in Bangladesh This project maps how farmer revenue, fiber quality, water, markets, and climate disruption interact in Bangladesh’s jute system. buff.ly/ZHWAsJC #systemsthinking #climateadaptation #kumu

Making complex ecosystems accessible This Kumu map brings together the innovation procurement landscape across Europe showing who’s involved, how they’re connected, and what they do. A great example of turning complexity into something navigable! buff.ly/Om6aCt1 #SystemsThinking #DataViz

Hundreds of studies exist in many areas of health research, but the patterns and gaps aren’t always obvious. Professor Michelle Krahe uses Kumu to create visual evidence maps that reveal research clusters and gaps across digital health topics. buff.ly/bPwDI6h #literaturereview #dataviz

Project of the Week: International Women's Day 🌍 We wanted to mark it by sharing Monica Price's causal loop diagram of gender equality in San Francisco's tech ecosystem. It’s one of the most rigorous systems maps we've seen on gender equality in tech. buff.ly/H41eNIa #IWD2026 #dataviz #cld

“You must give your own story to the world.” — Carter G. Woodson This month, we’re highlighting Kumu projects mapping Black history and culture, as well as mapping inequitable systems. Find links to each one on our latest Linkedin post! #BlackHistoryMonth #poweredbykumu #dataviz

Happy International #MotherLanguageDay, Kumunity. Feb 21 honors the students who protested for Bangla and were killed. UNESCO proclaimed the day in 1999 to protect linguistic and cultural diversity. Some language-focused maps we love are on our latest Linkedin post. #linguistics #dataviz

With Carnaval here, we thought it would be nice to pull out some examples of Kumu projects that go along with the spirit of the festivities: • Power redistribution • Network activation • Structured dissent • Waste awareness • Cultural identity formation • Shared-resource governance buff.ly/bGB9h8E

Kumu Project of the Week 🌊 Katapult Ocean & Builders Vision’s open-access systems map shows how markets, communities, and ocean ecosystems interact — and where capital can intervene to enable a regenerative ocean economy. Explore: buff.ly/rHn0uhK #TheOceanReturns #BlueFinance #SystemsThinking

🌱 Kumu Project of the Week In complex systems, motivation is rarely enough. Coordination is what makes care actionable. What’s That Green? is a great example of making collaboration visible by mapping the people working to reconnect cities and nature.

Project of the Week: A Systems View of Ecological Restoration in India 🌱 From Ecological Restoration Alliance – India with DESTA. A Causal Loop Diagram built in Kumu shows how funding, policy, practice, and time interact — and why certain patterns persist. Explore the map: buff.ly/fyBYp1W

Happy New Year, Kumunity This week we’re featuring an interactive map of the concept art ecosystem by Laine K. It turns a fragmented field into a legible system — something systems mappers will recognize right away. buff.ly/zY0gKy6 💬 Have you used Kumu to make sense of a complex field? #dataviz

After my proposal in Dec’24, we came up with theory features like order of magnitude, materialism-idealism scale, complexity etc. Eser Aygün and Amaç Herdağdelen used Gemini to get theory scores & similarity degrees. I designed and implemented the visualizations using @kumu.io. ↓

This @kumu.io visualization shows participation in 1994-2015 #Tutor #Mentor conferences held in #Chicago. tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/12/take... Many of the youth programs on my lists can be found if you enlarge portions of the map, or focus on a single event. Can you find yours?

Project of the Week! An interactive presentation by Aya Samadzelkava created alongside the paper “Detecting Discontinuities in the Topology of Alzheimer’s Gene Co-expression.” A great example of how relationship mapping can turn complex science into something engaging & explorable: buff.ly/FwucbxQ

In our newest In Too Deep episode we sit down with Viliana Dzhartova, co-founder of ReImagined Futures, about what it truly takes to move from systems analysis to systems change. Tune in for the episode: buff.ly/gyZEkbp Or read the blog transcript here: buff.ly/OxF1NiX #systemschange

Project of the Week: Childcare Systems Map — Understanding What Keeps Care Systems Stuck. A rich, research-based look at childcare systems in India, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, South Africa & Kenya. Explore 👉 buff.ly/igiWwp3

Matthew Morton’s UK Circular Fashion Ecosystem 🌿 On Black Friday, highlighting circularity instead of consumption. A few optional Kumu add-ons for discoverability: • group by category • filter + cluster • lists in sidebar • tweak sizing Map → buff.ly/DuwWmNV #SlowFashion #AntiBlackFriday #Kumu

Creativity feature: 🪶 French philosophy key concepts : buff.ly/FYhq2Q4 🏢 Birds-eye view of Portland planning: buff.ly/HTHM9OA 🌌 Systems thinkers: buff.ly/7gtSxNq 🍋 Weaving across ingredients & recipes: buff.ly/OmUuu1u 💌 Factors around informal caretaker wellbeing: buff.ly/4uk1OED #systems

Recent reporting has highlighted “circular” AI financing loops. Nirvaan Ranganathan mapped the bigger picture—capital flows, chip supply, energy systems behind the AI buildout. Map: buff.ly/CVV1mzD What’s one part of the AI ecosystem you think is overlooked—but most consequential? #AIgovernance

Project of the Week: Micelio — mapping UCA’s research as a living network 🌱 At Universidad Centroamericana (El Salvador), Micelio turns open-science into an interactive map linking research lines → projects → publications → people. Explore: (buff.ly/Eu5aJO4) #OpenScience #SystemsMapping #Kumu #UCA

Mapping Serbia’s AI ecosystem with Kumu 🇷🇸✨ Actors, projects & support programs—visually connected. Explore by sector, region, or role. Built by UNDP Serbia + collaborators. 🌐 English: buff.ly/i5u9Fcz 🌐 Serbian: buff.ly/LFePYBK #Kumu #AI #Serbia #OpenData #SystemMapping

Hello, Kumunity! 🌎 It’s United Nations Day — celebrating the UN’s founding in 1945. We’re proud to see so many UN teams using Kumu to map systems, from stakeholder networks to food systems. Here’s a great example from Ru’a Al-Abweh (UNDP Jordan) → buff.ly/ZObmZbQ #UnitedNationsDay #dataviz

🌊 Project of the Week: BlueLinked’s systems views of the North Sea — data viz that reveals life below and collaboration above. 🐚Borkumse Stenen: the seabed web of species + habitats. buff.ly/VBtqSSR 🌍Marine Sector NL: the human web restoring them. buff.ly/UFBgfwk #SystemsThinking #Kumu #BlueEconomy

This week’s Project of the Week honors Jane Goodall. We visualized chimpanzee social bonds from a recent study as an interactive Kumu map — a small act of network storytelling made possible by open data. 🔗 buff.ly/37pk3Xq #JaneGoodall #OpenScience #Chimpanzees #Kumu

We visualized every INSNA award recipient since the 1980s — a living catalogue of social network analysis (SNA) scholarship. Explore the map 👉 buff.ly/Imh7Kpd #SNA #NetworkScience #DataViz #INSNA #Sunbelt2025

Project of the Week: A super cool “Guide to Shock Maps in Kumu” shows how to run a Rapid System Assessment — mapping how shocks ripple through a system, using a hypothetical example of COVID-19 restrictions in Karamoja, Uganda. 📄 Guide: buff.ly/vtfk5Gn ➡️ Map: buff.ly/nmWgo07 #Systemsmapping

As #AfricaClimateSummit wraps in Addis, spotlight on the Global Climate Action Ecosystem map — a Kumu-built tool showing how climate actors connect, from AFR100 to Restore Africa. 🔗 buff.ly/wBBGQAF #ClimateAction #SystemsThinking

On Eid Milad-un-Nabi, a reminder of compassion & community, we’re lifting up global stories told through Kumu — from France to NZ to the US. See the full post + links on LinkedIn 👉 buff.ly/vWaMA4m #SystemsChange #SystemsMaps #DataViz #PoweredByKumu

Project of the Week: Geoffrey Schwartz’s Kumu map is a systems atlas of thinkers, movements & campaigns experimenting with new models. Not just ties, but links of meaning — tracing pathways of change & showing where alternatives converge. buff.ly/GpYKOCG #systemschange #alternativefutures

What if the lived experience of an outlier holds the lever for systems change? 💡 In this episode of the In Too Deep Podcast, Jeff Mohr talks with Matt Healey about how interpreting data differently can shift the way we understand systems. 🎧 Listen now on the In Too Deep Podcast: buff.ly/meqA9HJ

Hello, Kumunity! This week’s spotlight is on a Kumu project developed by Marie Axelle-Bord and ADEUS, covering stakeholders in the forest and wood industry across Strasbourg/Alsace and surrounding territories in the Grand Est region of France. buff.ly/7GxjQuq #DataViz #Forestry #GrandEst #Alsace

@kumu.io has been sharing some interesting network analysis work in its LinkedIn posts. I saw this today. www.linkedin.com/posts/kumu_k...

I included this graphic in today's #Tutor #Mentor article at tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/08/mapp... It's an example of mapping event participation, using @kumu.io I found it on LinkedIn.

We’ve spent more than a decade as a fully remote team. Every so often we meet up in person and this year we flew to Canada's beautiful West Coast 🏔️ Check out our latest blog post in which we share our team's reflections on what makes remote work "work" for us! buff.ly/9JzRSGY

This week, we’re showcasing a project by Matt O’Brien that sheds light not on a network, but business operations! He does an excellent job using Kumu to show how strategies, challenges, and capabilities connect to actual business value. buff.ly/HNJDjAF #projectmanagement #poweredbykumu

Project of the Week: SOWTH’s Growing Network Abbie Cohen & the Project Pollinate team visualized how 1,200+ food actors came together—and wove a stronger southern ag network. Smart storytelling. Real insight. buff.ly/CNGe15P #networkmapping #SOWTH #dataviz

Kumu Project of the Week: a creative map from the Education Finance Network showing who’s doing what (and where) in non-state education. Built by @NatalieDavirro, with helpful filters + a network view for partnerships. - buff.ly/adxzfwM - buff.ly/4GdU5de

Mapping Serbia’s AI ecosystem with Kumu 🇷🇸✨ Actors, projects & support programs—visually connected. Explore by sector, region, or role. Built by UNDP Serbia + collaborators. 🌐 buff.ly/LF4BfCw #Kumu #AI #Serbia #OpenData #SystemMapping

🎙️ New Podcast Episode 🎙️ What if the real problem isn’t what we think it is? When simple solutions don’t actually move the needle, it’s often a sign we’re treating symptoms, not systems. Listen in through your favorite podcast platform or read the full transcript on blog.kumu.io !

As the World Heritage Committee wraps in Paris, check out this great example of transparent heritage governance: Azin Saeedi’s Kumu map shows who’s involved in managing Australia’s Victorian Goldfields — from advocacy groups to tourism boards. buff.ly/dwlzrwK #PoweredByKumu #StakeholderMapping

Project of the Week My goodness are we excited to showcase this project with you, it is a class on systems thinking and modeling created by The Sustainability Lab and Conor Meehan, built right in Kumu! buff.ly/VNHHGtQ #systemsmapping #systemsthinking #dataviz #poweredbykumu

Project of the Week! A systems mapping process of environmental governance in Siak, Indonesia—built w/ LTKL, UNDP, Daemeter & Systems Mapping Academy. In English/Bahasa Indonesia, talking about river pollution, palm oil, rice policy, logging, governance! 🔗 EN: buff.ly/KrhDV4Y 🔗 ID: buff.ly/dgzPxGz

Project of the Week: Mining for the Twin Transition What a joy to come across this beautifully done Kumu project interactively exploring the #twintransition in Norway from the Sustainability Lab at the University of Oslo: buff.ly/egrKl3y #EnergyTransition #DataViz #poweredbyKumu