(How) Can Universities be Linked to Societal Transition Challenges?
Ana Vasques, Ginie Servant-Miklos, and Sanne Koevoets
Annual Systemic Design Symposium
RELATING
SYSTEMS THINKING
AND DESIGN
A foundation for the emergence of research and inquiry
Annual Systemic Design Symposium
Relating
Systems Thinking
and Design
A foundation for the emergence of research and inquiry
October 6th–20th, 2023
RSD12: ENTANGLED IN EMERGENCE
15-days | Organised by Georgetown University, USA
October 6th–20th, 2023
RSD12: ENTANGLED IN EMERGENCE
15 days | ORGANISED BY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, USA
RSD12-ONLINE | 15 days | 100+ sessions
RSD12-WASHINGTON DC | IN-PERSON CONFERENCE
RSD12-HUBS | 12 IN-PERSON SYMPOSIA
RSD12 | Speakers
In-person at hubs & livestreamed via RSD12-ONLINE
Conversation for Wicked Challenges: Bridging worldviews, language, and generations
Kate Doyle and Paul Pangaro
Critical Systems Thinking
Michael Jackson
Design in Time
Tony Fry
Exploring Wisakacihowin (Trauma) and Indigenous Trauma-Informed Practices
Amber Dion and Terri Cardinal
Five Frames for Future Policy
Chelsea Mauldin
RSD12 | Plenaries & Panels
In-person at hubs & livestreamed via RSD12-ONLINE
Colloquies for Transgenerational Collaboration
Scholar + Practitioner + Observers
Designing Climate Justice: A co-created learning journey
Climate Justice Field School Collective
Designing Governance Within the Canadian Social Finance System
Sean Geobey, Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed, Gryphon Loubier, Sergio Nava-Lara, Katey Park, and Dilek Sayedahmed
Digital Rights
Jake Blok, Anouk Geenen, Ander de Keijzer, Rosa Louwerse, Wina Smeenk, and Ben Wagner
Educating Systemic Designers: Negotiating epistemologies and purposefulness
Ray Ison, Gyuchan Thomas Jun, and Rebecca Cain
Equity & Diversity Key to Social Innovation and Systemic Design
Social Innovation Canada
RSD12 | Interactives
Books, ideas, methods | 30-minute sessions via RSD12-ONLINE
Circular Cross-scalar Governance Spiral: Designing for bio-regional regeneration
Tobias Luthe and Haley Fitzpatrick
Designing for emergence and (mis)communication
Gregory Mills
MOOC: Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems
Tobias Luthe
Toolkit: Ethical human-centred design for a complex world
Kathryn Krummeck, Gray Garmon and Munir Ahmad
RSD12 | Workshops & Studios
Offered in-person at hubs or via RSD12-ONLINE
#NewMacy Studio in Sympoiesis
Claudia Westermann, Ioannis Bardakos, Eryk Salvaggio, Jude Lombardi, and Larry Richards
An Ants World: Systems organisation of ants and what we can learn from them
Tejaswini Nagesh and Pranav Balasubramanian
Autoethnographic Stories of Hope as Systemic Design Interventions
Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Koen Wessels, Bas van den Berg, Michaela Hordijk, Marlies van der Wee, Daan Buijs, Arjen Wals, Naomie Tieks, and Sofia Sarmiento
Both Sides of the Story
Manon Joosten, Guido Stompff, and Nanda Deen
Design and Double Bind Communication in Welfare Services: The model of logical paradoxes
Linda Blaasvær, Tore Gulden, and Fred Steier
Designing a User Interface to Enable Collective Decision-Making
Claire Palmer, Ella-Mae Hubbard, Rebecca Grant, and Mey Goh
News & Notes
This website is a systemic design resource that is continuously updated with the proceedings of the annual Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium and other Systemic Design Association (SDA) events. It also serves as a searchable repository of peer-reviewed work in systemic design. SDA also publishes Contexts—The Systemic Design Journal.
RSD Host Organisations 2011-2023
