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This research paper surveys the system symbols, and their development, notation, mnemonics and depiction are explained. The history, stages and praxis over more than four decades are relayed. Today the elaborated system symbols have matured into a consistent repertoire of universals as a frame of reference for drawing board representation, architectural design, sketching and structural modelling. Furthermore there exists a scientific base‐plate, and formalizations for measurement and testing in a multitude of uses. Methodology foundations derived out of assembled insights can be retrieved from the quoted bibliographic references. As now experienced, a few different systems approaches when combined constitute integrative complements. They can display the flow‐dynamics and entailment loops of propagation‐pattern‐recognition to harvest a breed of deep‐insights cumulation towards global applicability. Here is a rapprochement, merging general living systems theory, cybernetics, informatics networks and sociotechnical methods. Organizational redesign, development, constructive balance and subsystems harmony are ultimately dependent on systemic nature‐laws, physical principles and experience rules. They are intrinsic to this domain of time‐longitudinal deep‐insights grown as a resource generated by years and praxis. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |