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The Community-Embedded Classroom as a Site for Social Innovation Labs
Sean Geobey
Systemic Assessment as an Ethical Compass in the Design Process
Juan de la Rosa
What is Responsible Design Education?
Luke Feast, Bo T. Christensen, Peter Gall Krogh, Colin M. Grey, and Linda Nhu Laursen
Rapids and Waterfalls: The co-creative process of guiding systemic design master's thesis projects
Stine Moons, Maud Gruyters, and Alexis Jacoby
Unveiling the Two Stories: Contrasting approaches to systems oriented design in design universities and military staff colleges
Thomas Slensvik and Anders McD Sookermany
Systemic Thinking As A Methodological Tool In Architectural Education: The paradigm of Ekistics’ theory within architectural design courses, focused on the typology of housing
Chrysi Nikoloutsou, Malvina Apostolou, and Gianna Siapati
Some Design Considerations for Concept-Forming and Concept-Sharing in Discursive Agents
Thomas Manning
Pollinating and Connecting: Mapping design-driven practices for inclusive and sustainable societal transformation
Ambra Trotto, Maria Claudia Coppola, and Caroline Hummels
Jump Starting Circular Transformation from Conditions of Culturally Ingrained Destructive Behaviours for the Well-being of People and the Natural Environment
Susan Evans and Sylvia Xihui Liu
Decolonial Embodied Transformative Learning
Anaïs Sägesser and Naveen Shamsudhin
Cultivating a Regenerative Imagination at Art and Design Universities
Tuukka Toivonen and Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
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Where do systemic designers go to [BLANK]?
Greg Van Alstyne, David Ing, Peter Scott, and Zaid Khan
Ontario’s Universities: An act of public imagination
Jennifer Murphy, Cheryl Green, and Ian Rolson
What’s the problem with public education?
Reshmi Bisessar, Katrina Heschel, Nathalie Robertson, Doug Reid, and Allison Campbell-Rogers
Designing the Complex City. A systemic approach to spatial design
Elena Porqueduu
Your Solution is Showing: Undesigning, understanding, and unknown-ing for systemic insight
James Stauch
Seeing the Elephant: Gender perspectives as a systemic challenge in design
Carla Sedini
The Action Tree: Inspiring pathways for systemic transformation
Patrick Vincent and Juliette Monaco
Configuring Incompossible Futures
Claudia Westermann, Chris Speed, Elisa Giaccardi, and Mike Phillips
Every High-Energy System Needs a Crucible
Harold Nelson
Lessons From the Field: Exploring effective systemic design practices with organisations
Tim Tompson, Leanne Sobel, Emma Blomkamp, and Elsa Henderson
Systemic Education & Holistic Learning
Various authors | Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Making Non-Sense: A game of designed ambiguity for unshaping our collective identity
Mario Marquez Lartigue
Relational Aliveness: Feeling our way into systems design
Naoko Ellis and Derek Gladwin
Embodied Systems: An escape room experience for systemic designers
Tom Maiorana
Language as Design: Exploring the socio-cultural impact of (co-)creating shared meaning in multi-stakeholder collaboration
Liliya Terzieva and Sarah Schmitz
Dialogic Watercolours: Designing spaces for practising relationality in complex systems navigation
Leander Kreltszheim
Structured Systems Mapping at Carnegie Mellon: Cultivating a practice of critical reflection and collaborative exploration
Luis Garcia
Poverty Among University Students in Pennsylvania
Karis Choe, Gauri Sharma, and Melissa Qin
Pedagogies to Practices―Getting to the next wave of massive change
Frances Westley, Luigi Ferrara, Greg Van Alstyne, and Perin Ruttonsha
Systems Design at the Intersection of Organisational Theory and 2nd Order Cybernetics
Damian Chapman and Mark Sullivan
If a Laboratory, what is cybernetics?
Paul Pangaro and Eve Pinsker
Systemic Design Inquiry—Open or Closed? Broadband Inquiring Systems
Harold Nelson: It is obvious that we need to reestablish new broadband designs of inquiry to supplement and balance the dominance of narrowband inquiring systems in a world recognized to be more complex and entangled than imagined, and more challenged by complex technologies than ever expected.
Retrospective and Prospective Storytelling of Metadesign Research and Education Impacts—A 60-Year Arc
Hannah Jones, Anette Lundebye, and Mathilda Tham
Entering Complexity Through Sketching: An accessible approach to teaching systems
Thomas Maiorana
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.
Explorations of Appropriation in Systemic and Ecosocial Design: A workshop and collaborative autoethnography
Joanna Boehnert and Josina Vink
Multi-Scale More-than-Human Atlas Gigamapping
Marie Davidová, Elena Porqueddu, Hanane Behnam, and María Claudia Valverde Rojas
A Pill For Every Ill? The allure of systems thinking In design
Sine Celik, Cecilia Landa-Avila, and Palak Dudani
Unbox: Metaphorical spaces as boundary objects for unusual collaborations
Dan Lockton, Jillian Student, Jonas Torrens, Merijn Bruijnes, Federico Andreotti, Kuangyi Xing, and Niva van der Geer
World Café—Experiencing Collaborative Support Networking as a Practice In Systems Design
George Fedha, Laurence Habib, Dewi Hartkamp, Flavio Mesquita da Silva, Fred Steier, Abbie VanMeter, and Sergej van Middendorp
Conversations about Responsible Ways of Designing
Luke Feast
Designing Stories within a Materials Library for the Digital World
Siv Årsand
The Societal Impact of Applied Design Research
Liliya Terzieva, Peter Joore, Koen Van Turnhout, Troy Nachtigall, and Remko van der Lugt.
Islands in the Stream—A Playshop about Playshops
Tore Gulden, Fred Steier, Pille Bunnell, and Linda Blaasvær