Introduction to the Proceedings of RSD10—Playing with Tensions
Dr JC Diehl, Dr Nynke Tromp, and Dr Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer
Category: RSD10 Programme
November 2-6, 2021
RSD10
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
November 2-6, 2021
RSD10
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Playing with Tensions: Embracing complexity, collaboration and contexts in systemic design
10th Annual RSD Symposium
Complex systems do not lend themselves to simplification. Systemic designers have no choice but to embrace complexity and, in doing so, embrace tensions. RSD10 explored design and systems thinking as mediators and our human tendency to relieve tension and, in design, to resolve 'pain' points. But tensions reveal the paradoxes as sites of connection, breaks in scale, the emergence of complexity.
The fate of all complex adapting systems in the biosphere – from single cells to economies – is to evolve to a natural state between order and chaos, a grand compromise between structure and surprise.
– Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe
Hybrid Event
RSD10 was hosted by the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The symposium offered a platform for discussing ongoing work with peers and presents the state-of-the-art in the systemic design field.
RSD10 Logo: Mariana Barrientos-Paras
Photo: RSD10 at TU Delft
Oude Kerk (Old Church): Lizzy Zhou
Proceedings & Keynotes | + Program
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD10)
RSD10 – Playing with Tensions. Held online and on-campus November 2-9, 2021. Hosted by TU Delft, The Netherlands.
RSD10 Photo Gallery
Photos of RSD10 taken on-campus at TU Delft.
Online Social Activities for Delegates
Hosted online activities, a collaborative systems map, and social media streams for delegates
Top Ten in Systemic Design
Unlike RSD’s peer-review process, the Top Ten for Ten is a listicle that’s based on a simple criterion: the sheer number of RSD contributions. You will likely recognise the top ten names because of their sustained commitment and dedication to establishing systemic design in academe and design practice.
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.
Navigating Time Zones
All the times posted are UTC+1, the time zone is in use during standard time in Europe and Africa. Daylight savings time ends in Delft on October 31, 2021; therefore, the times given are CET and UTC+1.
Autonomous Technologies and the Challenges of Probabilistic Design
RSD10 Keynote. Dr Elisa Giaccardi unpacks what is uniquely human and uniquely artificial in the performance of agency, and how designers might attend to the ethics of this co-performance as a decentralised act of design.
Designing Transitions
RSD10 Keynote. Dr Derk Loorbach provides a transition perspective to address the complexities and uncertainty of change and presents development by design as a way forward.
From Uncritical Design to Critical Examinations of its Systemic Consequences
RSD10 Keynote. Dr Klaus Krippendorff suggests that designers become critical of what their work supports, and cognizant of and accountable for the systemic consequences of their designs.
Reflections on Design Practice at Dark Matter Labs
RSD10 Keynote. 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.
Paper Tracks: Provoking thought and dialogue
RSD Paper Tracks are a popular symposium format. RSD offers a platform for discussing ongoing work with peers and systemic design colleagues. Authors present their papers and invite input to develop their work further.
Hotels and restaurants in Delft
The RSD10 team has compiled this list of hotels, dining, and coffee shops for delegates who will be joining on-campus sessions at TU Delft.
10th Anniversary Ask Me Anything
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.
RSD10: What you need to know
The RSD10 program represents 119 new contributions to systemic design, presented as keynote speeches, dialogues, practice case studies, gigamaps, and long and short papers.
RSD10 Partner and Venue: TU Delft
TU Delft is the largest and oldest technical universities in the Netherlands. Industrieel Ontwerpen, the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering is one of the world’s leading design schools.
Announcement: Systemic Design Association General Assembly 2021
MON 08 | 14-15hr. The most important SDA meeting of the year. The SDA General Assembly will be held online at 2:00 PM (1400 hours) CET on Monday, November 8, 2021.
