14 Years of Experimenting with Design, Systems, and Stability -245
Victor Martinez
Category: Format: Maps & Exhibits
Format: Maps & Exhibits
Citizen Voice in Decision-Making: Exploring the power of dialogue in Toronto’s public spaces -263
Rimaz Mohamed, Ashwini Gawli, Kendra Matheson Perera, Nafeha Khan, Tanya Thomas Fernandes, and Manal Dimachk
Constructivist Approaches to Sense-Making About Design Theory -240
Michael Arnold Mages
Designing Regenerative Systems: Opportunities for Hemsedal -186
Haley Fitzpatrick and Tobias Luthe
Developmental design for healthcare sustainability – Synthesis map 1.0 -227
Pranay Arun Kumar and Peter Jones
Early Childhood Development -229
Vinayak Unni, Gautam Kumar, Praveen Nahar, Neha Mandlik, and Sahil Thappa
Envisioning the Metaverse -250
Ganesh Kumar, Krishnakant Saini, Nikhil Soman, Vagmita Parmar, Praveen Nahar, and Sahil Thappa
Exodus and the Anthropocene: Tracing climate-change-induced migration in India -230
Sparsh Verma, Preeti Shibu, and Neha Agnihotri
Finding yourselves in a changing world of work -254
Maggie Greyson, George Wang, and Angith Mohanarajan
Full Plate: Reducing food wastage to ensure food security for everyone -251
Abhishek Ranjan, Ayur Gillurkar, Dhruvin Bhuva, Praveen Nahar, and Sahil Thappa
Gamifying the Concept of Wâhkôhtowin to Rebuild Relations -199
Sam Singh and Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse
Made From Parts: Creating emotionally durable products to increase product longevity -226
Amrutha Prakash and Neha Mandlik
Mirror in the Bathroom -192
Ben Spong
Obso-lessons : Dissecting Planned Obsolescence -264
Joseph Francis, Sanath Pailwan, Shubham Modgi, Praveen Nahar and Sahil Thappa
Shift Workers at High Risk for Type 2 Diabetes -255
Alexandra Infanger, Jeanne Streit, Julie Grosjean, Marina Praxedes and Hans Kaspar Hugentobler
Systems of Information Dissemination -205
Andrea Barros, Sylvia MacSpadyen, Aisha Simpson, Hannah Karunakar and Umar Shaikh
The Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education: Exposing the Loss of Empathy -259
Beverley Freedman, Carley MacAdam-Thompson, Maizie Lovatt and Katherine Valenzuela
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The Polyskooter[s] -221
O. Fred Preston
Visakhapatnam : A Clean Industrial Hub -207
Aakash Mangla, G. Shankar Gopi, Siddhartha Pandey, Vipul Vinzuda and Praveen Nahar
Waves of Change: A case study of Drawdown Toronto in the climate action space -200
Janine Stowe, Aisha K, Neha Saini, Sumona Banerji and Vinit Soneji
Wearable Student Feedback Systems Map -220
Sarah Britten-Jones, Amber Jones, Daisy Stevens and Amelia Wylam
What’s the Problem with Public Education? -261
Reshmi Bisessar, Nathalie Robertson, Allison Rogers-Campbell, Doug Reid and Katrina Heschel
Why Not In Our Backyards? -260
Hannah Allen, Hannah Kim, Raphael Lopoukhine and Tim Sun
Why We Buy: A Systems View of Consumerism -262
Nicole Brkic, Martha Chomyn, Alejandra Farias, Razane Hanna and Amy Morrell
Women and Money: An investigation into gender disparity in financial literacy -209
Nikita Jaiswal and Tanishka Kacru
Xichong Holiday Resort Resource Flow Map: Towards a circular economy in Shenzhen, China -194
Guo Qiu, Hanxu Yu, Hongyi Hu, Yuanning Han and Christiane M. Herr
The Gigamap Interview with Birger Sevaldson
Jotte de Koning interviews Birger Sevaldson on the practice of gigamapping and how it has evolved.
Access to Healthcare in New York City
Designers can play a role in access to healthcare by combining research, design methodologies, and collaboration skills to reimagine how people interact with the system.
Anti-Black Racism in Pittsburgh
This gigamap puts forward six interventions for anti-Black racism: affinity space creation, white supremacy education, colour-aware work programs, addressing redlining, a reparations system, and universal basic income.
Air Quality in Delhi
Demonstrating strategic solutions and design thinking interventions in the problem of air pollution in Delhi.
Automation and the Value of Work: The effects of digital automation on job displacement in western Pennsylvania
A map depicting automation’s inverse relationship with the value of work as a wicked problem, in part because it is caused by and plays a role in the systems of other wicked problems.
Blockchain for Socioeconomic Impact
The systems map depicts a vision for an inclusive and sustainable economy by solving poverty and climate change in the agricultural sector.
Casually Cursed: Vocalizing experiences around casual discrimination amongst teenagers
This map is focused on teenage students who face discrimination in the form of name-calling, jokes and bullying. Casual discrimination almost always ends with the statement, “It was just a joke.”
COVID-19 Response in Pennsylvania
This map aims to capture and make connections between the challenges and opportunities in the domains of time and progress – this context highlights the transitional period of the pandemic.
Declining Bee Populations in Central California
Organized within a metaphorical honeybee graphic, the map includes bipartisan policies between nonprofits and government, technological improvements to the pollination process, activism and public awareness.
Designing an Interconnected Lexicon on Void to Support an Open-ended Architectural Vocabulary
The interconnect digital lexicon supports an open-ended architectural vocabulary developed via mapping software. It includes conceptual relations, clusters of concepts, visual images, and explanatory notes.
Designing for Ambivalence: Co-creating a resilient floating neighbourhood in rural Philippines
This visualisation presents value chains and quotidian needs brought together in the co-design for a floating neighbourhood in rural PI, based on an existing technical prototype of a single floating house.
Is the Greenest Building the One Already Standing?
This synthesis map explores the whole carbon profile of buildings to understand better the influences, challenges, and opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from the building sector in Canada.
Nutrition Access in Pittsburgh
This gigamap nests the issue of food insecurity in Pittsburgh within larger scalar levels to visualize and understand the interconnectivity of this wicked problem.
O’ahu and the Effects of Climate Change
The five-petal flower motif represents the delicate climate situation O’ahu’s flora and fauna faces and concludes that responsibility lands with global corporations and federal governments.
Plastic Wave – Plastic pollution is a result of who we are
This map builds interconnections between multiple layers to reveal deeper insights towards framing the problem correctly and working towards a massive change for shifting our patterns towards a circular lifestyle.
Synergetic Landscape
This gigamap demonstrates a systemic approach to urban environment performance for the future Post-Anthropocene communities and economies.
The Future of Work-Life Balance in the Tech Sector
A synthesis map showing leverage points to help support employee work-life balance and why moving towards supporting work-life balance in employees matters to the company.
There Is a Me in Us and We: Understanding Selfishness in Transdisciplinary Collaborations Among Design Students to Facilitate Sustainability Outcomes
The insight is a reminder for sustainability students and practitioners to acknowledge the role of their superiority and biases as a part of system dynamics in transdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability outcomes.
National Institute of Design Exhibition
A beautiful virtual walk-through of the National Institute of Design campus in Ahmedabad, India.
Car-Free City Life
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. Autonomous public transport systems and the ongoing implementation of a car-free city center policy in Oslo.
Circulating Health Information toward Health Action
OCAD University, Canada. How might we help people to learn to manage their cardiovascular risk?
Co-designing a Pathway through Food Revolution for Social Change
Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. Process of ‘individual capacity building’ leading to ‘collective capacities in order to contribute to positive social change.
COLreg: The Regenerative Community
Collaborative Collective. Proposes circular economy for a gardening colony including upcycling and the use of tokens.
Design in Indian Army
National Institute of Design, India. Design thinking and human-centric approach to broaden the spectrum of design in the Indian Army.
Equation of Craft in India
National Institute of Design, India. The craft sector in India through mapping interconnections and multidirectional influences.
Making Waves: Organizational gigamap
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. The complex web of structures that form part of organizations, and some of the components they may need to operate.
Norwegian Labour & Welfare and Oslo Adult Education
Norwegian Labour & Welfare and Oslo Adult Education, Norway. Bridging the gap between people and public services by offering an overview of the whole system.
Obesity Epidemic
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, USA. Interdependencies, harmful feedback loops, and interventions to break the cycle of obesity.
Obesity in Western Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, USA. A visual guide to obesity and design interventions through Meadows’ leverage points.
Playscape
National Institute of Design, India. The ‘amusement park’ represents various aspects of ‘Play’ as a plug-in to foster improved social connections.
Potential for a Circular Autopoietic Economy on Canavese Territory
Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design, Italy. Strategies for the creation of new networks aimed at transforming the economy and production processes from linear to circular approach.
Potential for Circular Autopoietic Economy in High River Po Valley
Politecnico Di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design, Open Systems Design Lab, Italy. Illustrating a more circular economy that is more resilient and more regenerative.
Public Use Space Policy
Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión, Mexico. Understanding the need for an updated approach for the benefit of urban mobility and street vendors.
Regenerative Bioregional Transitions
The University of Limerick, School of Design, Ireland. The relationships between various perceived dimensions of designing for place-based, ecologically driven systems change.
Rising Adolescent Depression
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, USA. Factors related to adolescent depression synthesized to lend understanding to the systemic issues.
Sessional Design-Action Research Curriculum Framework
Centre for Changemaking and Social Innovation, Georgian College, Barrie, and Canadian Freshwater Alliance, Canada. How curriculum might shift a uniquely Canadian rural region towards a Flourishing Social Enterprise landscape
Synergetic Landscapes Unit: The Multispecies Biodigital Community Codesign
Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. A work in progress of Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture.
The Story of Demand and Supply of Resources
National Institute of Design, India. A systemic exploration of the most basic physiological need for food and highly influential control means called markets.
Vevelstad 2040
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. A local community where industries are not dependent on each other, and benefit from each other’s knowledge.
VR to Fight Climate Change
Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, USA. Commercial VR as a tool to produce pro-environmental behavior that combats climate change.
Wealth to Well-being
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. A systems exploration in imagining alternatives within housing in Norway.
Wicked Problems: The Opioid Crisis
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design, USA. In response to the Opioid crisis, the map proposes leverage points to intervene in terms of education, policy, healthcare, the environment, and the economy.
How patients and providers visualise healthcare?
A network analysis approach to map outcome interactions.
Rice sector: System and new opportunities
OCTOBER 2018
Supporting Co-Design in Complex Healthcare Systems through the affordances and metaphors of tangible tools
Karianne Rygh’s exhibition at RSD6 showcases the tangible tools for co-design workshop facilitation.
Evolution of the Digital Health Record
Authors: Teresa Coronel, Kim Massicotte, Angelsea Saby, and Abezoo Talebzadeh
Crafting Futures in Lebanese Refugee Camps
Authors: Helen Avery, Lund University, and Nihal Halimeh, Collective Architects in Burj El Barajneh Palestinian Camp
Fight for the Truth: Wrongful Convictions in Canada
Authors: Anna Colagrossi, Jyotish Sonowal, Raul Valenzuela, and Roxanne Nicolussi
