The Role of Designers and Systemic Design in Planetary Health
SDA Address. Dr Silvia Barbero sees designers as pivotal in making possible an urgent radical shift toward circularity and transformational change.
Category: Format: Plenaries & Panels
Format: Plenaries & Panels
#NewMacy: Becoming
The #NewMacy Studio construct is to enable deep participation through activities such as prototyping, play, exploration, enactment, and improvisation.
#NewMacy ACT I: Redefining Stability
Re-defining Stability. A contextual framing for #NewMacy and the #NewMacy “Acts” at RSD11.
#NewMacy ACT III: Reintroducing Stability
Reintroducing Stability – #NewMacy conversations construct an ever-inclusive and participant-directed platform for dynamic stability and growth.
Confronting Legacies of Oppression in Systemic Design
Panellists: Shana Agid, Ahmed Ansari, Frederick van Amstel, and Melanie Goodchild. Organised by: Alberto Soriano, Josina Vink and Shivani Prakash
Cultural Environments with More-than-Human Perspectives
Panellists: Shany Barath, Susannah Dickinson, Liss C. Werner. Panel Lead: Marie Davidová.
Cultural Premises, Conscious Purposes, and Design: Conversing with the legacies of Gregory Bateson and Vern Carroll
Panellists: Tim Gasperak, Michael D. Lieber, Eve C. Pinsker, Fred Steier, and Daniel Wolk. Facilited by Dulmini Perera and Simon Sadler. Presentation of words, story, and music by Stephen Nachmanovitch. Organised by Dulmini Perera and Eve C. Pinsker.
Gregory Bateson and the Political
Moderator: Jon Goodbun. Panellists: Phillip Guddemi and Fred Turner. Organised by Dulmini Perera.
Playing within Systems for Change (The Art Panel)
Panellists: Ioannis (John) Bardakos, Tegan Bristow, Chris Speed, and Claudia Westermann. Organised by Claudia Westermann.
Radical Shifts in Planetary Health
Panellists: Evan Barba, Eleni Charoupia, Sally Sutherland, and Clément Vidal
Research Fishbowl
Presenters: Fanjasoa Louisette Rasoloniaina, Ryan Murphy, Xiaolin Shen, Lara Rodgett, Wen Lu, and Nicolas Roussignol
RSD: Where transdisciplinary discourses meet and contribute to guiding principles for systemic design
RSD10 Opening. SDA Chair, Dr Silvia Barbero, offers a warm welcome to delegates and charts the guiding principles for systemic design theory and future directions for the SDA.
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?
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.
Systemic Design Toolkit
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.
A people-centred strategy for innovation and participation – benefiting society, business and the individual
Onny Eikhaug: The Norwegian model of social governance … goes beyond the provision of basic needs to protect human rights, focusing on social and democratic ambitions.
In memory of MP Ranjan: The NID approach to Systemic Design
Pravin Nahar: The educational framework for systems design is reflective, evolving, transdisciplinary, and occurs at various levels.
Teaching for democracy in a holistic perspective
Tom Vavik: Teaching the concept of Universal Design (UD) to design students has developed over the last decade.
Design Beyond Design
Kees Dorst: Could there be something in the very nature of design practices that limits Design’s ability to deal with these very complex systems?
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.
The Visual Representation of Complex Systems: A Typology of Visual Codes for Systemic Relations
Joanna Boehnert: This research addresses the need for more effective visual representations of the key features of complexity.
RSD2 – Opening Plenary
RSD2 Keynote. Birger Sevaldson: Do we have a systems thinking renaissance?
Co-design for Complexity: Deepening Design and Systems Sciences
Deepening design and systems sciences involves design practices that can generate concepts and intervene for change. Systemic design as an interdiscipline is proposed.
