RSD Editor

RSD Guidelines

Submission guidelines provide a detailed description of how to prepare a document for all submission formats: papers, presentations, workshops, and systems maps and exhibits.

RSD13-RSDX Focus Areas

Each RSDX day followed a current created by community-led contributions: emergence of systemic design, cybernetics & #NewMacy, practice, methods & flourishing, and systems thinking

10-14/15/19/21 ONLINE WORKSHOPS

RSD13-ONLINE workshop schedule

10-16/17/18 PAPERS & TALKS

RSD13 peer-reviewed research papers and reports

About this Repository

The RSD symposia proceedings represent a systemic design resource—an unparalleled collection of peer-reviewed work and contributions from academe and practice.

#New Macy | American Society for Cybernetics

Transdisciplinary engagements with systemic design

Emily Carr University and the City of Vancouver

Vancouver’s Climate Justice Charter involves new processes that draw from the ﬁelds of systemic design, social innovation, and equity-centred and decolonising methods.

Expertisenetwerk Systemisch Co-design

ESC (Expertise Network Systemic Co-design) is an initiative by five universities in the Netherlands that collaboratively explores systemic co-design as a problem-solving approach to understanding the interconnected systems that contribute to a problem and developing interventions.

Indigenous Knowledge & Wisdom Centre

IKWC works to preserve and revitalize First Nation Peoples’ languages, cultures, and identities by providing a centralized venue for education and First Nation tradition to come together.

Kingston University

Kingston University’s Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment and Cyber and Digital Innovation Hub are working toward a transformational shift in the realm of cyber, AI methods of learning design, and design thinking culture.

Loughborough University

Loughborough University brings together researchers and practitioners who are interested in exploring the synergy between systems science, design science, citizen science and data science and their potential to solve complex challenges facing our societies.

National Institute of Design

The National Institute of Design engages in real-world design projects with an emphasis on a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving through systems thinking, design research, and participatory design.

OCAD University

OCADU offers several systemic design related graduate programmes and is home to sLab, a centre for participatory foresight, systemic design research, and social innovation

SDA Norway

SDA Norwar is a group of organisations that support the development, diffusion and celebration of systemic design practice, methodology, and theory in the Nordic region.

Sys_Lab

Sys Lab is a research group within Politecnico di Torino that applies a systemic approach to different industrial sectors, engaging public and private, local, and international stakeholders.

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Tecnológico de Monterrey’s focus on articipatory ecosystems strives to optimise the potential for innovation while addressing challenges by prioritising emic approaches and engaging diverse stakeholders in decision-making processes, problem-solving, and implementation of solutions.

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Universidad Nacional de Colombia seeks to explore the interconnectedness of design research and systemic design with a specific focus on design research and developments in systemic design in Latin America.