From January to May 2023 Jungmee (Michelle) Jung and I participated in Humber College, Toronto, round of Map the System, an Oxford University-based global system thinking competition that aims to stimulate new ways of addressing social and environmental change.

We won the Global Polytechnic Alliance prize for our project, which explored the interconnected issues surrounding New Zealand’s fresh food price inflation. We were joined by Pranjili Mehta and Oubah Omar, of Humber College. 

Utilising “system thinking”, as a team we delved into a range of issues to visualise elements of complex economic systems that drive the current inflation of food prices.