WED 03 | 4-5. SDA Chair, Dr Silvia Barbero, offers a warm welcome to delegates and perspectives on systemic design’s past and future directions.
Format: Keynote Speakers
Professor Dr Derk Loorbach
FRI 04 | 9:30-10:30. Derk Loorbach is director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions, Faculty of Social Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is one of the founders of the transition management approach as a new form of governance for sustainable development.
Professor Dr Elisa Giaccardi
FRI 04 | 6:30-7:30. Elisa Giaccardi is Professor and Chair of Post-industrial Design at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), where she leads the research group, Connected Everyday Lab.
Indy Johar
FRI 05 | 9-10. Indy Johar is an architect, co-founder of 00 (project00.cc) and a Senior Innovation Associate with the Young Foundation and Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield.
Professor Dr Klaus Krippendorff
FRI 05 | 3-4. Dr Krippendorf is Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication
10th Anniversary Ask Me Anything
MON 08 | Follows the GA. The AMA is a unique online forum opportunity with Peter Jones and Birger Sevaldson, bringing them together as co-presenters once again so you can ask them, well, anything.
Designing with Nature: Systems design for the well-being of the Earth community
RSD9 Keynote. Vandana Shiva: Design, like every other discipline over the last few centuries, has been limited by colonialism and anthropocentrism – the assumption that colonising cultures are superior to the colonised, and humans are superior to other species.
No silver bullets. How UNDP learned to embrace system thinking
RSD9 Keynote. Giulio Quaggiotto: Accepting that wellbeing and sustainable development are complex challenges means acknowledging the limitations of linear planning and moving away from the allure of designing single-point solutions.
Regaining a new sense of well-being by design
RSD9 Keynote. Harold G. Nelson: The COVID-19 virus has been the catalyst for disruptive pandemic changes around the world. Our norms are being forever changed. Our sense of well-being has been lost. New norms are needed now because a new normal is desired and necessary. It is a perilous game to play if the process of forming new norms is left to unfold by chance rather than intension.
Design Strategy in Complex Spaces of Innovation
RSD8 Keynote. Carlos Teixeira was the RSD8 Co-Chair. He is the Charles L. Owen Professor in Design at IIT Institute of Design and the faculty director of the UI Action Lab.
Dressed in Wall Street Suits & Algorithmic Math: Assemblages of Complex Predatory Formations
RSD8 Keynote. Columbia Professor and author Saskia Sassen: Detecting what is happening, de-theorizing in order to re-theorize.
Towards the Whole: A tribute to Charles L. Owen
RSD8 Keynote. Charles Bezerra: A tribute to Charles L. Owen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Design where he conducted research and taught until 2010 in the MDes, MDM, and PhD Design graduate programs.
Designing for Systems-Level Change and Transitions Toward More Sustainable Futures
RSD8 Keynote. Terry Irwin: Transitioning entire societies toward more sustainable long-term futures will involve ongoing systems level change over long horizons of time.
Community-Empowered Systems Change
RSD8 Keynote. Chris Rudd: The future of the community depends on ending racism.
Advanced Design Cultures: A learning system perspective
RSD7 Keynote. Roberto Iniquez Flores: In order to address the complexity of these new approaches design is evolving into a new cultures that are very diverse and emergent, these design cultures require a new characterization for its understanding.
