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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Practice with Feeling: Accessing emotion as data through somatic inquiry in systemic interventions
Rachel Lilley
The Future of the Food System in Southeast Louisiana: Applying the Three Horizons with a farmers’ market
Mikal Giancola, Eve Pinsker, Peter Jones, and Elisa Muñoz-Miller
Systemic Design for Change in Community Care for Older Adults: the Shanghai Jing’an ‘Five-bed linkage’ Care Model
Jing Chen, Wen Lu, Min Hu, Qi Chen, Amina Pereno, Silvia Barbero and Long Liu
Research on the Design of Sensory Surrogate Applications Based on Behavioural Characteristics of Visually Impaired People
Lin Lin
Expanding our Capacity for Change and Adaptation through the Embodiment of our Experience
Victoria Batten
Digital Vulnerabilities: Phishing in Greece
Jenny Darzentas and Henry Mainsah
Decolonial Embodied Transformative Learning
Anaïs Sägesser and Naveen Shamsudhin
A Systemic Perspective on the Design and (Lack of) Use of an Artefact in the Hospital
Danielle Vossebeld, Nicholas Spencer, Remko van der Lugt, and Christine De Lille
The Co-Evolution of Regenerative Networks
Perin Ruttonsha, Luigi Ferrara, Melanie Goodchild, Gerald Midgley, Lesley-Ann Noel, and William Sutherland
Beyond Labels: Towards a new paradigm of mental healthcare systems
Eric Molumby
Millets: The Grain of Future India
Parnavi Dinkar, Rahul Raj Singh, Tina Soni, and Vivek Kant
Concept Design of Next-Generation Endurance-Enhancing Textiles for Athletes
Ayantika Roy, Muskan Agrawal, Vivek Pal, and Vivek Kant
The Myth of Work-Life Balance: Mapping Unsustainable Work, Patterns of Canadian Work Culture
Mursal Ashrafi, Jillian Harris, Aavrati Kushwaha, Beyza, Ozmen, and Mursal Ashrafi
Understanding the Primary Care Crisis in Ontario
Janine Pierre, Luke Correia-Damude, Brandon Meawasige, and Danielle Pierre
Enhancing Dog Human Relationships
Sayali Junagade, Sripriya Ganta, Leela Krishna Chawan, and Vivek Kant
Designing for Mental Well-being
Shi Hui Saradevi Ng
Health Experience Design
Various authors | Friday, October 10, 2025
Cultivating Systems Leadership: Two years in
Seanna Davidson and Dana Shen
Redrawing the Arcs in Healthcare: On relationality, systemic design, and the weight of where we place our attention
Ng Yeuk Fan: And yet, when we speak with people—not as patients, but as human beings—they do not ask for services, nor do they ask for departments … They ask to make meaning of medical conditions they live with, and to hold onto their identities in the face of decline. These are not unreasonable things.
Making Room for Joy: Decolonising participatory design through shared practice and performance
Angelique C-Dina, Maria Fernanda Ramirez Cifuentes,Estefania Ciliotta Chehade and Michael Arnold Mages
Practising Systemic Relationality: Applied methods for revealing and reworking system relationships
Rhea Kachroo, Annand Ollivierre, and Autumn Sanders
Improving the End-of-Life Care Experience: Mapping experience touchpoints and systems of end-of-life care via material facilitation
Chenfei Yu and Michael Arnold Mages
Co-design for Digital Health: Building stakeholder relationships and using creativity as a means of engagement
Lili Golmohammadi, Emelia Delaney, Wei Liu, SiobhanO’Connor, Louise Rose, Annie Howitt, Sebastien Ourselin, and Glenn Robert
Relational Changemaking: #2 Reductionism Reconciled
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: # 3 Parallel Worlds
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #5 Shadows and Archetypes
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #6 Relational Well-being
Perin Ruttonsha
Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Daniel Ha, Grace Huang, Maddie Philhower, and Sonya He
Adverse Effects of Climate Change on Those With Pre-Existing Medical Conditions in Pennsylvania
Jennie Wei, Luke Shen, Sophie Hao, and Jessica Lin
Isolation of the Elderly in Pennsylvania
Michele Hratko, Viviana Staicu, Kenneth Yu, and Wendy Yu
Mode-Shift Practices Related to Design Ability for Innovation in Healthcare
Berit Godfroij, Lenny van Onselen, and Anita Cremers
Viewing Communities as Complex Systems: Citizen participation in decision-making for transport and mobility system renewal in old communities
Tianyu Xiao
Framing Across System Scales and Timeframes: Supporting designers in reasoning toward transition design interventions
Hannah M. Goss, Jotte I.J.C. de Koning, Nynke Tromp, and Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein
The Ripples of Impact: Evaluating the Inverse Care Law Programme
Katie Miller and Maddy Thompson
Building a Meandering Arena for Thriving Youth
Matilda Legeby and Karin Petrusson | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Imaginal Discs & Planetary Health: Fieldnotes from nine years of Nourish
Hayley Lapalme | online
Shifting Perspectives in Welfare Systems: Working with people to unpack complexity and foster change
Linda Blaasvær, Elisabeth Skjelten, and Simón Sandoval | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Engaging the Sacred in Design for Complexity: Ethical inclusion of spiritual commitments in the metacrisis
Cheryl Hsu, Peter Jones, Zaid Khan, and Natalija Vojno
Context-Based Sustainability: A systemic management innovation for navigating toward science- and ethics-based thresholds
Bill Baue and Randy Sa’d
Individual and Collective Meandering: Taking the scenic route into just and regenerative futures
Ashley Worobec
Exploring Wisakacihowin (Trauma) and Indigenous Trauma-Informed Practices
Amber Dion and Terri Cardinal
Indigenous Governance
Shalene Jobin
Mino Bimaadiziwin—Good Life
Diane Roussin
The Health System Transformation Playbook
Ng Yeuk Fan
The wâhkôhtowin Imagination
Dwayne Donald