Polycrisis patterns: applying system archetypes to crisis interactions

This article can help you to better understand how crises interact, reinforce each other, and create unexpected ripple effects. It draws on system archetypes to describe and exemplify three polycrisis patterns: Converging Constraints (based on the Limits to Growth system archetype), Deepening Divides (based on Success to the Successful system archetype), and Crisis Deferral (drawing from the Policy Resistance system archetype). These patterns provide a structured way to analyse how multiple crises unfold and interact, as well as insights into how to navigate such complexity.