Annual Symposium
RELATING
SYSTEMS THINKING
AND DESIGN
A foundation for the emergence of research and inquiry
Annual Symposium
Relating
Systems Thinking
and Design
A foundation for the emergence of research and inquiry
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Symposia Proceedings
Keynote Speakers
Designing with Nature: Systems design for the well-being of the Earth community
RSD9 Keynote. Vandana Shiva: Design, like every other discipline over the last few centuries, has been limited by colonialism and anthropocentrism – the assumption that colonising cultures are superior to the colonised, and humans are superior to other species.
No silver bullets. How UNDP learned to embrace system thinking
RSD9 Keynote. Giulio Quaggiotto: Accepting that wellbeing and sustainable development are complex challenges means acknowledging the limitations of linear planning and moving away from the allure of designing single-point solutions.
Regaining a new sense of well-being by design
RSD9 Keynote. Harold G. Nelson: The COVID-19 virus has been the catalyst for disruptive pandemic changes around the world. Our norms are being forever changed. Our sense of well-being has been lost. New norms are needed now because a new normal is desired and necessary. It is a perilous game to play if the process of forming new norms is left to unfold by chance rather than intension.
Design Strategy in Complex Spaces of Innovation
RSD8 Keynote. Carlos Teixeira was the RSD8 Co-Chair. He is the Charles L. Owen Professor in Design at IIT Institute of Design and the faculty director of the UI Action Lab.
Dressed in Wall Street Suits & Algorithmic Math: Assemblages of Complex Predatory Formations
RSD8 Keynote. Columbia Professor and author Saskia Sassen: Detecting what is happening, de-theorizing in order to re-theorize.
Towards the Whole: A tribute to Charles L. Owen
RSD8 Keynote. Charles Bezerra: A tribute to Charles L. Owen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Design where he conducted research and taught until 2010 in the MDes, MDM, and PhD Design graduate programs.
Plenary Sessions
Circularity, Systems Thinking and Sustainability
RSD9 Plenary. Prasad Modak: Is the concept of Circular Economy (CE) old wine in a new bottle? Is the canvas of CE really understood?
COLreg: The Collective Regenerative Region
RSD9 Plenary. Marie Davidová and Kateřina Zímová: The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating former gardening colony of Prague 22 district.
Conversations in Healthcare Service Design
RSD9 Plenary. Jonathan Romm, Palak Dudani, and Shivani Prakash: To stimulate innovation in systems of healthcare, designers need to become conversational experts.
Decolonizing Futures
RSD9 Plenary. Pupul Bisht: What does the future look like? Who owns/shapes these images of the future? Whose identity, knowledge, needs, and desires are not represented in these futures?
Paper Talks
A Systemic, Socio-Ecological Approach for Community Resilience: The case study of the World Music School
Authors: Timothee Landa, Susu Nousala
All RSD Papers
Gigamaps
Birger Sevaldson of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design first introduced the gigamap technique. The gigamap takes an architectural and descriptive approach to complex projects. The technique has been extended to synthesis maps and system design complexity maps.
The synthesis map is used at OCAD University to translate multiple knowledge perspectives and illustrate the dilemmas and challenges within a complex system scenario. System design complexity maps are the outcome of an academic project at the National Institute of Design. They use metaphor and a central theme to make complex issues accessible for sharing and participatory work with multiple stakeholders.
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Presentations from the National Institute of Design
National Institute of Design Exhibition
A beautiful virtual walk-through of the National Institute of Design campus in Ahmedabad, India.
Decolonizing Futures
RSD9 Plenary. Pupul Bisht: What does the future look like? Who owns/shapes these images of the future? Whose identity, knowledge, needs, and desires are not represented in these futures?
Hearth, Home and Well-being
Facilitators: Sucharita Beniwal and Swagata Naidu, National Institute of Design
Modelling an innovation ecosystem to build and nurture communities
Author: Ananya Agrawal
Reducing Mining and Energy Consumption through Recycling of Fired Ceramic Waste
Author: Shashank Nimkar