Systems Thinking invites us to observe and propose the "boundary conditions" that will ultimately define every project's design goals. By extending that conversation to include our responsibility to be stewards of the project's "Place," we invite our clients into a fundamentally different evaluation of what matters to them, us, our community, our environment, and most essentially, the place that we will be making together. Don't you want to work on projects grounded by this premise? In this session we will reveal the relationships between Systems and Stewardship and the ways in which the act of Placemaking can ground that practice.