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about:
  label: Howard Silverman
  depiction: people/howard-silverman.jpg
  description: >-
    Writer and teacher on systems, design and futures, with the MA in
    Sustainable Design program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
person:
  affiliation: Minneapolis College of Art and Design
  role: contributor
  homepage: 'https://www.solvingforpattern.org/howard-silverman/'
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  - predicate: contributes_to
    target: about/contributors
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Howard Silverman (Solving for Pattern)
      url: 'https://www.solvingforpattern.org/howard-silverman/'
  created: '2026-10-24'
  reviewed: '2026-10-24'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from his own page'
  status: draft
---
Howard Silverman writes and teaches about systems, design and futures, and is with the MA in Sustainable Design program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.[^1] He developed curriculum for systems and futures courses in the Collaborative Design MFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art and taught for several years in the ITP program at NYU.[^1] From 1999 to 2012 he worked at Ecotrust in Portland, Oregon, starting as webmaster and ending as senior writer and analyst.[^1] He is a trustee of the American Society for Cybernetics and a past board member of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.[^1]

His blog, [Solving for Pattern](https://www.solvingforpattern.org/), is about theories of change, practices of engagement and ways of learning.[^1]