The RSD symposia proceedings represent a systemic design resource—an unparalleled collection of peer-reviewed work and contributions from academe and practice.
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Unveiling the Two Stories: Contrasting approaches to systems oriented design in design universities and military staff colleges
Thomas Slensvik and Anders McD Sookermany
Pollinating and Connecting: Mapping design-driven practices for inclusive and sustainable societal transformation
Ambra Trotto, Maria Claudia Coppola, and Caroline Hummels
Navigating Streams of Conversations: A systemic co-design approach to improving entrepreneurial ecosystem development capacity
Armand van Oostrom, Christine de Lille, and Erik Stam
Evaluating Complexity In The Literature On Organisational Transitions to the Circular Economy: A systemic framework for critical review
Esther Noëth, Stine Moons, Els Du Bois and Alexis Jacoby
Cultivating Narrative Resistance in Systemic Design
Azra Tugce Sungu, Weslynne Ashton, and Laura Forlano
Critical Realism for Complex Systems Research: Structural analysis with retroduction and ecotone
Darwin Muljono
India hosting Olympics in 2036
Purva Bhandari and Neel Mehta
Transition Templates: Pathways to Net Zero+ poster
Joanna Boehnert and Nick Bell
Cultivating Systems Leadership: Two years in
Seanna Davidson and Dana Shen
Every High-Energy System Needs a Crucible
Harold Nelson
Advancing the Adoption of Systemic Design in Changemaking Organisations: Applying and critiquing the SHIFT framework
Lewis Muirhead, Ryan Murphy, and Louise Gallagher
Relational Leadership
Various authors | Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Understanding Livestock Disease Outbreaks in Uganda
Gabriel Jabile
Undercurrents of Reframing: Understanding social dynamics in organisational innovation settings
Emile Mazerant
Why not wait? What is the pace of your change?
Dan Eng and Evgenya Nee
Lack of Affordable Housing in Pennsylvania
Rowan DeJule, Jackie Ryu, Kyla Anderson, and Cameron Cassano
Exnovation: From tools to mindset and praxis
Marie Van den Bergh and Stine Moons
From Crisis Response to Systemic Transformation: Coordination science for resilient systems
Alessandro Margherita, Gianluca Elia, Gianluca Solazzo, Luca Gatti, and Annemarie Poorterman
Complex Missions: A scoping study of systemic leadership
Cheryl May
Systems Leadership: Seeing the forest for the trees
Seanna Davidson: And so it becomes necessary to challenge the notion of leadership altogether and to make visible a relational, shared and dynamic leadership that more resembles a system than an individual role.
An Undisciplined Look at Systemic Designing
Harold Nelson
Crisis and Crystallisation: Identifying system change opportunities
Michele Mastroeni | online
Systemic Design for Strategy and Future-Fit Organisations
Bernd Herbert
Acting on Emotions: Designing with the relational dramas in welfare systems
Audun Formo Hay, Jonathan Romm, Simen Formo Hay, Hobbe Mikae, Jenny Holm, Bjørgum, Lara van der Poel, Yijuan Wang, Anna Kristine Aarø Halvorsen, and Per Roppestad Christensen
Rethinking Mergers and Acquisitions Systemically: Breaking free from conventional practice to unlock collective wisdom for sustainable impact
Christophe Kempkes and Sebastian Wolf Siebzehnrübl | Panel: Donnie MacLuran, Gillian Marcelle, and Elise Talgorn
Flourishing Enterprise Institute: An introduction
Randy Sa’d and Tim Posselt
Global and Local: Navigating a common tension in systemic design
Tim Tompson and Sebastian Wolf Siebzehnrübl | Panel: John Thackara, Michelle Miller, and Valentine de Ganay
Convening Boundary Relations for Transformative Design
Hira Javed
Context-Based Sustainability: A systemic management innovation for navigating toward science- and ethics-based thresholds
Bill Baue and Randy Sa’d
Monterrey: Humanity, health, habitus
Roberto Iñiguez Flores
Resilience and Transformation
Domenico Dentoni
The Conscious Design of Systems by Evolutionary Leaders toward a Sustainable and Flourishing Monterrey and Mexico
Manuel Manga
Designing Governance Within the Canadian Social Finance System
Sean Geobey, Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed, Gryphon Loubier, Sergio Nava-Lara, Katey Park, and Dilek Sayedahmed
Equity & Diversity Key to Social Innovation and Systemic Design
Social Innovation Canada
The Philanthropy Paradox
Tim Draimin, Cassie Robinson, Vani Jain, and Aatif Baskanderi
An Ants World: Systems organisation of ants and what we can learn from them
Tejaswini Nagesh and Pranav Balasubramanian
Challenge of Funding Systemic Change Supporting Equity
Eve Pinsker
Hopeful Synergies
Loughborough University
Living Strategies: Bio-Inspiration Toolkit
Patrick Vincent
Regenerative Design and Transition Dynamics
Maud Gruyters, Esther Noëth, and Stine Moons
Scaling Up Business and Societal Success with the Ecosystem Success Accelerator
Hongli Joosten-Ma, Jennifer Cakir, and Diana Perra
Stewarding Loss—For Hopeful Futures
Cassie Robinson
The Application of Systemic Co-Design in Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Armand van Oostrom and Claudia Mayer
Emerging Reservist Cultures
Marion Real and Vikrant Mishra
Customer Centricity: Transformation through systems oriented design from the inside of an agricultural corporation in Central and South America
Leandro Porras Molina