Call for RSD11 Contributions
Now open – activities, workshops, and exhibits. This is the final call for contributions that prompt further questions and enact enquiries. Deadline: August 15
As designers look to address systemic challenges, they must wrestle with tensions and conflicting requirements within their practices and the situations they seek to change. Systemic questions cannot be approached one at a time in isolation. Yet, it is inevitable that design is partial in its engagements – to address everything is implausible or uncritical to implicit boundary judgements and the privileges of dominant perspectives. Unpredictable interdependencies require a cautious approach, yet incremental strategies risk entrenching underlying errors and injustices by making the status quo more palatable. Profound, long-term changes are needed, but the urgency of the present also demands immediately achievable actions.
Registration Summer 2022
BRIGHTON’S SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING IS BASED AT THE MOULSECOOMB CAMPUS.
Hosted by University of Brighton
RSD11 is a three-day symposium with a pre-symposium workshop day. The time frame is October 13 to 16, 2022, and will include both online and on-site programming. The preliminary plan is to live stream keynote and plenary presentations and coordinate a dedicated online program running parallel over the conference days. A space will be made available on campus for in-person delegates to gather for the online program.
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At RSD11, we look to expand further systemic design’s modes of working:
Now open – activities, workshops, and exhibits. This is the final call for contributions that prompt further questions and enact enquiries. Deadline: August 15
Current RSD11 updates on Calls for Contributions and acknowledgements.
Marie Davidová shares her perspective on publication paths for early career researchers.
RSD11 Call for contributions that challenge, extend, critique, and diversify established working methods in systemic design.
This article invites you to follow the RSD posting protocols and provides a detailed description of the basics to consider when preparing your submission.
Authors are invited to identify their paper or presentation as aligned to one of seven specific focus sessions. These have been developed as provocations for critical reflection, new topics, and different directions.
Designers must navigate between the need for immediate action and maintaining long-term change. Yet, it is difficult to think of the temporality of design beyond the consideration of years or decades.
In this focus, RSD11 is interested in contributions exploring: circular design, regenerative design, distributed design, and, more broadly, ways that designers of things act to shape the nature and legibility of economic, bureaucratic, ecological and cultural systems.
Now that the architecture discipline seems to be arriving at a period of digital sobriety in its modes of practice and generative methods, critical perspectives are needed.
A growing group of scholars and practitioners are confronting legacies of oppression in the systemic design domain.
Attending to health means fundamentally rethinking where (our) health comes from. The importance of considering global health and human health as intersecting is increasingly pressing.
How may we use Bateson’s provocations to rethink the problematic stories around design and modernity as mobilised in contemporary design practices?
Methods afford and perpetuate ways of understanding and organising the world much like any other artefact. Because conventions are assumed within the context of a methodological practice, they are difficult to question from within.
Presenting at RSD has many benefits and RSDsymposium.org is a compendium of contributions from people working at the forefront of systemic design. Here’s how it works.
RSD is off to the shores of Brighton in 2022. The University of Brighton’s School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering is the RSD11 host.