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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Impossible Futures and the Ethics of Hopelessness: Learnings from Black liberation system entanglements part III
Victor Udoewa (Frontiers in Sociology, Race and Ethnicity)
Feminist Pragmatist Stories and Strategies for Social Systems Design
Danielle Lake and Judy Whipps
Community Empowerment: Multi-Stakeholder Co-Creation in Participatory Design for Agricultural Landscape Renewal in Old Residential Communities
Yue Ma
From Humanitarian Design to Design for Social Innovation: A comparative experiment activating reflexivity on coloniality and power dynamics
Riccardo Torta, Marco A. Finardi, Abigail Turinayo, Victor Muwonge Semaganda, and Marco Gobetti
Data Opportunities and Limitations Met by Afro-Colombian Ancestral Medicine Unit in Bogota
Laura Niño Caceres, Eindhoven University of Technology, l.nino@tue.nl
India hosting Olympics in 2036
Purva Bhandari and Neel Mehta
Beyond Labels: Towards a new paradigm of mental healthcare systems
Eric Molumby
Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 1: What do rivers reveal and conceal about conversations?
Pille Bunnell | online
Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 2: Confluencing reciprocity, reflexivity, and flexibility in systemic design
Frederick Steier | online
Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 3: Returning to the recursions of cybernetics
Ben Sweeting | online
Aftershock of Choices: Mapping the role of ethics during earthquake relief in India
Kashika Chawla, Tanishka Chavan, and Vivek Kant
Local Resilience: Urban and rural ecosystem possibilities through the lens of textile systems
Lesley Roberts
Art, Design, and the Interface in the Woven Skin project
Maria José Rios Araya
Empowering Indian Farmers Through Direct Sales in Organic, Markets Using a WhatsApp-Based Market Model
Imandi Avinash, Nabajit Bora, Rahul Kumar Mishra, and Vivek Kant
Millets: The Grain of Future India
Parnavi Dinkar, Rahul Raj Singh, Tina Soni, 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
Designing for Mental Well-being
Shi Hui Saradevi Ng
House of Annetta and the Cybernetic Archive
Fran Edgerly, Aska Welford, and Kate Doyle
Impossible Futures and the Ethics of Hopelessness
Victor Udoewa
Understanding Livestock Disease Outbreaks in Uganda
Gabriel Jabile
Making Non-Sense: A game of designed ambiguity for unshaping our collective identity
Mario Marquez Lartigue
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
Knowledge Positionality in Transition Design Research
Stine Moons
Language as Design: Exploring the socio-cultural impact of (co-)creating shared meaning in multi-stakeholder collaboration
Liliya Terzieva and Sarah Schmitz
Relational Changemaking I & II: Leading through the fire
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #1 Order in Chaos
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #2 Reductionism Reconciled
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: # 3 Parallel Worlds
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #4 Power and Vulnerability
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #5 Shadows and Archetypes
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #6 Relational Well-being
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #7 Fierce and Quiet Kinds of Love
Perin Ruttonsha
Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Daniel Ha, Grace Huang, Maddie Philhower, and Sonya He
Isolation of the Elderly in Pennsylvania
Michele Hratko, Viviana Staicu, Kenneth Yu, and Wendy Yu
Poverty Among University Students in Pennsylvania
Karis Choe, Gauri Sharma, and Melissa Qin
Navigating Urban Space: From Chandigarh’s postcolonial blueprint to relational systems
Abhay Vohra and Dario Jaeger
Honeybees, Nature, and Arcs of Circularities
Jude Lombardi and Mariah Guimarães Di Stasi
Relational Systems Thinking
Melanie Goodchild
Co-Creating Social Worlds in Relationship with Others
Abbie VanMeter: CMM has evolved into an important perspective and practice that foregrounds relationality as central to meaning-making, is increasingly applicable in everyday life, and remains rooted in a strong theoretical foundation.
Human Relationships in Complex Challenges—What can we design?
Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer: I find human relationships incredibly fascinating, because they are so difficult to grasp and at the same time so important and meaningful to being human.
Let’s be Abnormal
Karen O’Brien: When chaos, confusion, and cruelty become hypernormal, it’s time to challenge normality. Let’s be abnormal and embrace our quantum nature—relational, paradoxical, and entangled to the core.
Viewing Communities as Complex Systems: Citizen participation in decision-making for transport and mobility system renewal in old communities
Tianyu Xiao
Explorations of Appropriation in Systemic and Ecosocial Design: A workshop and collaborative autoethnography
Joanna Boehnert and Josina Vink
Conversations Around New Materials not yet on the Market: Design roadmaps to predict the adoption of innovative transparent composites
Eva Vanessa Bruno,* Doriana Dal Palù, and Beatrice Lerma
Designing for the Systemic Proximity: Positioning and Placemaking
Silvia D’Ambrosio, Carla Sedini, and Albert Fuster