Ben Sweeting, Author at RSD Symposium

RSD11: Confronting legacies of oppression

Oct 2022

A growing group of scholars and practitioners are confronting legacies of oppression in the systemic design domain.

RSD11: Design over time

Oct 2022

Designers must navigate between the need for immediate action and maintaining long-term change. Yet, it is difficult to think of the temporality of design beyond the consideration of years or decades.

RSD11: Different stories in design

Oct 2022

How may we use Bateson’s provocations to rethink the problematic stories around design and modernity as mobilised in contemporary design practices?

RSD11: Methods and the worlds they make

Oct 2022

Methods afford and perpetuate ways of understanding and organising the world much like any other artefact. Because conventions are assumed within the context of a methodological practice, they are difficult to question from within.

RSD11: Products are systemic objects

Oct 2022

In this focus, RSD11 is interested in contributions exploring: circular design, regenerative design, distributed design, and, more broadly, ways that designers of things act to shape the nature and legibility of economic, bureaucratic, ecological and cultural systems.

RSD11: Radical shifts in planetary health

Oct 2022

My health depends on your health, which depends on networks, systems, and webs of planetary health. Attending to health means fundamentally rethinking where (our) health comes from.

RSD11: Reimagining the intentionality of architecture

Oct 2022

Now that the architecture discipline seems to be arriving at a period of digital sobriety in its modes of practice and generative methods, critical perspectives are needed.