Circularity, Systems Thinking and Sustainability
Prasad Modak: Is the concept of Circular Economy (CE) old wine in a new bottle? Is the canvas of CE really understood?
Annual Symposium | November 3-6, 2021
RELATING
SYSTEMS THINKING
AND DESIGN
A foundation for the emergence of research and inquiry
Annual Symposium
Relating
Systems Thinking
and Design
A foundation for the emergence of research and inquiry
RSD10 is Playing with Tensions
November 3-6, 2021
Delft, The Netherlands
Plenaries
COLreg: The Collective Regenerative Region
Marie Davidová and Kateřina Zímová: The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating former gardening colony of Prague 22 district.
Conversations in Healthcare Service Design
Jonathan Romm, Palak Dudani, and Shivani Prakash: To stimulate innovation in systems of healthcare, designers need to become conversational experts.
Decolonizing Futures
Pupul Bisht: What does the future look like? Who owns/shapes these images of the future? Whose identity, knowledge, needs, and desires are not represented in these futures?
Integrating Selves and Systems through Ritual
Arvind Venkataramani and Adam Menter: Co-designed rituals are a way for people to identify and navigate the systems they are embedded in, and to construct or reshape selves to seek well-being.
Redesigning Our Theories of Theories of Change
Peter Jones: The working theories on the logic of system change outcomes, and the quasi-systemic logic models used to communicate them.
Worlds within Worlds: Fostering a Thriving Network in a Flourishing Field
Peter Jones and Birger Sevaldson
Systemic Design Association
Birger Sevaldson: New courses are showing at universities in Europe and the Americas, beyond those represented in the RSD discourse, as the interdiscipline grows in depth and applicability.
State of the Art Practice: Are we ready for systemic design toolkits?
Plenary & Workshop. Namahn Center and ShiftN: A toolkit establishes a common understanding and language, enabling dialogue among the actors and other stakeholders, including a diverse designer team.
Practitioner Insights on Systemic Change from the New Plastics Economy Initiative
Plenary & Workshop. Widmer Simon: At the Ellen MacArthur Foundation we aim to transform key industries from a take-make-dispose model toward a circular economic one.
Cybernetics, virtue ethics and design
Ben Sweeting: Cybernetics and virtue ethics have had little if any explicit exchange. There are a number of areas in which they may contribute to or provide useful critiques of each other.
Papers
A Systemic Project for a Local Fruit Farm and the Valorisation of By-products
Enrica Ferrero, Giulia Ferrero, Elisa Ghignone, Martina Motta and Marco Ruffa
Acting on a Company to Relaunch a Territory: The application of the systemic design methodology
Alice Marchesi, Mariapaola Puglielli, Florina Denisa Moldovan, William Tonelli, Martina Troppino and Xinwei Wu
Arctic Design: The systemic development of a new domain
Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk and Nikolai Korgin
Balancing Acceleration and Systemic Impact: Finding leverage for transformation in SDG change strategies
Ryan Murphy, Nenad Rava and Peter Jones
Between Heaven and Earth: Design tensions in the Book of Changes
Evan Barba and J.R. Osborn
Bottom-Up-Down Approach
Bruno Martins Rizardi and Daniela Gomes Metello
CO-DE|GT BETA: The 21st-century economy app for cross-species co-living
Marie Davidova, Shanu Sharma, Dermott McMeel and Fernando Loizides
