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Greg Van Alstyne, David Ing, Peter Scott, and Zaid Khan
Oracular Bodies: A collective praxis of futuring
Cheryl Hsu, Cassie Robinson, and Vanessa Reid
Lessons From the Field: Exploring effective systemic design practices with organisations
Tim Tompson, Leanne Sobel, Emma Blomkamp, and Elsa Henderson
Advancing the Adoption of Systemic Design in Changemaking Organisations: Applying and critiquing the SHIFT framework
Lewis Muirhead, Ryan Murphy, and Louise Gallagher
Coordinated Management of Meaning
Celiane Camargo-Borges, Sheila McNamee, Flavio Mesquita da Silva, Abbie VanMeter, Sergej van Middendorp and Mil Niepold
Tangle Circuits and the Limits of Knowing
Louis Kauffman and Thomas Fischer
Making Non-Sense: A game of designed ambiguity for unshaping our collective identity
Mario Marquez Lartigue
Making the Case for Systemic Change
Andre Nogueira and Kristel van Ael
Improving the Airport Experience: The role of empowerment and interconnection
Aniek Toek, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade and Najla Mouchrek
What’s in a Game? Using game features to analyse systems
Marie-Hélène Fokias and Vanessa Toye
Relational Aliveness: Feeling our way into systems design
Naoko Ellis and Derek Gladwin
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
Embodied Systems: An escape room experience for systemic designers
Tom Maiorana
Playful Systems Facilitation
Evan Barba, Adeline Hvidsten and Sarit Youdelevich
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
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
Dialogic Watercolours: Designing spaces for practising relationality in complex systems navigation
Leander Kreltszheim
Lost in Translation? Regenerative practices for bridging knowledge
Natalia Radywyl and Debra Polson
Why not wait? What is the pace of your change?
Dan Eng and Evgenya Nee
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
Future Scenarios as a Democratic Tool for Citizens to Build a Desirable Collective Future
Laetitia Bornes and Catherine Letondal
Splitting Hairs or Shaping Practice? Debating Systemic and Systems Design
Michalina Fidos, Hillary Carey, and Mari Suoheimo
Camping and More: A simple case study workshop on applying Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model
Allenna Leonard
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
Exnovation: From tools to mindset and praxis
Marie Van den Bergh and Stine Moons
Towards Living System Maps: Reimagining systemic design tools as adaptive, inclusive, and participatory infrastructures—with and beyond AI
Dulaj Perera, Jairo da Costa, Wouter Eggink, and Geke Ludden
An Experimental Glossary, or a Workshop on the Coming of Pluriverses
Claudia Westermann and Kate Doyle
Between Care and Control: How to weave good intentions into complex systems?
Annan Zuo, Fred Steier, and Claudia Westermann
Roundtable on Spatial Transformation: A Cross-Cultural Exchange
Yue Ma
Systemic Change via Local Experiments: Mapping the landscape
Anja Overdiek, Liliya Terzieva, Katinka Bergema, and Christine De Lille
Drop Your Tools: Exploring qualities of transformative relationships in design
Emile Mazerant and Frido Smulders
Nestedness in sustainability transitions: application in the transition of organisations to the circular economy
Stine Moons and Esther Noëth
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
How to Develop Systemic Insights from System Failures and Use them for Systemic Design? Unleashing the potential of AcciMap in identifying and anticipating systemic failures
Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Joon Sang Baek, Jinseo Nam, and Eric Kim
Playable Systems: Game co-design for systemic insight
Evan Barba and Adeline Hvidsten
Relational engagement, worldviews and imaginative practices
Gemma Drake and Mafalda Moreira