CITATION
May, C., Romm, J., Sevaldson, B., & Wettre, A. (Eds.). (2025). Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD13. https://rsdsymposium.org/proceedings-of-rsd13/
Note: Citation details are available for individual articles at the bottom of each page.
INTRODUCTION (in process) | ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | EDITION NOTICE
Keynotes & Talks
Changing the Way We Think about Change: School of System Change
Anna Birney | online
Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 1: What do rivers reveal and conceal about conversations?
Pille Bunnell | online
Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 2: Confluencing reciprocity, reflexivity, and flexibility in systemic design
Frederick Steier | online
Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 3: Returning to the recursions of cybernetics
Ben Sweeting | online
Quantum Social Change: You matter more than you think
Karen OBrien | online
An Explorative Conversation: What does it mean to move upstream in conversations?
Patricia Shaw and Karina Solsø | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
An Undisciplined Look at Systemic Designing
Harold Nelson
Building a Meandering Arena for Thriving Youth
Matilda Legeby and Karin Petrusson | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Could (and should) Innovation be Irreversible?
Giulio Quaggiotto | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Crisis and Crystallisation: Identifying system change opportunities
Michele Mastroeni | online
Designing to Connect—A social systemic perspective
Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer
Imaginal Discs & Planetary Health: Fieldnotes from nine years of Nourish
Hayley Lapalme | online
Inclusive Arctic Urban Spaces
Kyersti Monsen | online
Living Systems Lab Explorer
Tobias Luthe | online
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Birger Sevaldson, Jonathan Romm, and Andreas Wettre | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Multispecies Design Interactions: From affordances to bio-infrastructures
David Sánchez Ruano
Shifting Perspectives in Welfare Systems: Working with people to unpack complexity and foster change
Linda Blaasvær, Elisabeth Skjelten, and Simón Sandoval | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Structuring an Evolving/Emerging Curriculum for Design, Empowered and Grounded by Holistic Systemic Thinking
John Darzentas and Jenny Darzentas
Synergies Across Municipal Services for for Cross-Generational Care and Community Connections
Manuela Aguirre
Systemic Design for Strategy and Future-Fit Organisations
Bernd Herbert
Towards a Fourth Wave of Systems Thinking for Systemic Design
Gerald Midgley and Rachel Lilley | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back: Systems thinking, foresight and arts-based methods in participatory policy design for a just transformation
Seona Candy and Eedla Rahikainen | RSD13-OSLO in-person only
How can we meet John Ehrenfeld’s challenge to flourish?
John Ehrenfeld and Peter Jones | online
Plenaries & Panels
Engaging the Sacred in Design for Complexity: Ethical inclusion of spiritual commitments in the metacrisis
Cheryl Hsu, Peter Jones, Zaid Khan, and Natalija Vojno
Rethinking Mergers and Acquisitions Systemically: Breaking free from conventional practice to unlock collective wisdom for sustainable impact
Christophe Kempkes and Sebastian Wolf Siebzehnrübl | Panel: Donnie MacLuran, Gillian Marcelle, and Elise Talgorn
Cultivating a Regenerative Imagination at Art and Design Universities
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Jon Goodbun, and Toivonen Tuukka
Design for Systemic Impact: Forum for the Future fieldnotes
Rodrigo Bautista, Neil Walker, and Annabel Johnstone
Flourishing Enterprise Institute: An introduction
Randy Sa’d and Tim Posselt
Global and Local: Navigating a common tension in systemic design
Tim Tompson and Sebastian Wolf Siebzehnrübl | Panel: John Thackara, Michelle Miller, and Valentine de Ganay
Languaging Systems in a Biology of Love
Kate Doyle, Paul Pangaro, and to be announced
Navigating Complexities in Sustainability: Adjacency across systemic design and transformations
Silvia Barbero, Bruce Goldstein, and Anna Margolis
North Stars: Discussing an expanded direction for systemic design
Tobias Luthe, Haley Fitzpatrick, Peter Hayward Jones, and Birger Sevaldson
One Cohort Reflects on Fifteen Years of Changing Systemic Design Practices
Gina Belle, Angela Meyer, Tim Tompson, and Cameron Tonkinwise
Preserving Cultural Significance in a Polycrisis World: The adaptive approach of artisanal communities
Amresh Panigrahi, Ravi Poovaiah, and Gayatri Menon
Prototyping Conversation: Attempting to shift from a problem-solving mindset to the cybernetic framework for wicked challenges
Damian Chapman, Kate Doyle, Patricia Machado, and Thomas J McLeish
Systems Mediation as a Competency for Just Transitions
Maryam Mohiuddin Ahmed, Patrick Dubé, Lara Evoy, Louise Adongo, Stéphane Guidoin, and Jean-Noé Landry
Systems Thinking Ontario: A retrospective, introspective, and prospective discussion about systems convening
Systems Thinking Ontario | Organiser: Zaid Khan
The Science of Possibility and Serendipity
Ksenia Fiaduta, Vlad Glăveanu, Ryan Murphy, and Wendy Ross
Design Journeys through Organisations: Systemic design tools for leadership
Peter Hayward Jones and Kristel Van Ael
Papers | SEARCH & FILTER RSD13 PAPERS
Systemic Thinking As A Methodological Tool In Architectural Education: The paradigm of Ekistics’ theory within architectural design courses, focused on the typology of housing
Chrysi Nikoloutsou, Malvina Apostolou, and Gianna Siapati
Systemic Design for Change in Community Care for Older Adults: the Shanghai Jing’an ‘Five-bed linkage’ Care Model
Jing Chen, Wen Lu, Min Hu, Qi Chen, Amina Pereno, Silvia Barbero and Long Liu
Systemic Approaches to Architectural Design: Exploring the biophonic theatre
Ruoxi Li
Some Design Considerations for Concept-Forming and Concept-Sharing in Discursive Agents
Thomas Manning
Systemic & Futures-Oriented Service Design: emerging design patterns for complex and uncertain transformations
Beatrice Villari, Riccardo Torta, Zijun Lin, Manuela Celi, Victoria Rodriguez Schon, Daniela Sangiorgi, and Manahil Huda
Socio-technical Confluence of Design in the Circular Economy
Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
Scaling As Emergent Opportunity In And Across System-Shifting Design Projects
Anja Overdiek, Celina Whitehead, and Liliya Terzieva
Approaches and Reflections on Setting up a Systemic Design Expertise within Consultancy Practice
Palak Dudani and Eva Hugenschimdt
Workshops | SEARCH & FILTER RSD13 WORKSHOPS
Roundtable on Spatial Transformation: A Cross-Cultural Exchange
Yue Ma
Systemic Change via Local Experiments: Mapping the landscape
Anja Overdiek, Liliya Terzieva, Katinka Bergema, and Christine De Lille
Drop Your Tools: Exploring qualities of transformative relationships in design
Emile Mazerant and Frido Smulders
Nestedness in sustainability transitions: application in the transition of organisations to the circular economy
Stine Moons and Esther Noëth
Explorations of Appropriation in Systemic and Ecosocial Design: A workshop and collaborative autoethnography
Joanna Boehnert and Josina Vink
Multi-Scale More-than-Human Atlas Gigamapping
Marie Davidová, Elena Porqueddu, Hanane Behnam, and María Claudia Valverde Rojas
How to Develop Systemic Insights from System Failures and Use them for Systemic Design? Unleashing the potential of AcciMap in identifying and anticipating systemic failures
Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Joon Sang Baek, Jinseo Nam, and Eric Kim
Playable Systems: Game co-design for systemic insight
Evan Barba and Adeline Hvidsten
Relational engagement, worldviews and imaginative practices
Gemma Drake and Mafalda Moreira
Interactives
Confluences of Systemic Design: A historical exploration of interdisciplinary influences
Jeremy Swartz and Ben Sweeting
Reframing Arts-and-Tech Experimentation: (Re)Generative research rituals for an ecology of technology
Soenke Zehle and Sónia Alves
Ethnographic Methods and the Listening and Understanding Phases of Systemic Design
Mikal Giancola, Anna Kirah, and Eve Pinsker
Membranes from Experiential Structures: Traversing systemic meta-scapes
Iannis John Bardakos and Malvina Apostolou
Methodological Pluralism
Haley Fitzpatrick, Tobias Luthe, and Birger Sevaldson
StoryMaps Toolkit—Visualising Narratives, Strategies, and Systems
Paul Keck and Julia Rochlin
Maps & Exhibits
Microe-Polis: An animated micro-system under our feet
Harsh Pandya
The Weight of Tomato Waste: A systemic approach to global food loss
Morgan Bath, Travis Erickson, Pan Xie, Pranav Miglani, and Yining Wang
Visual facilitated Landscape of Models in the Organisational Context of a Church Diocese
Thomas Weltner
Copyright Information
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (ISSN 2371-8404) are published annually by the Systemic Design Association, a non-profit scholarly association leading the research and practice of design for complex systems: 3803 Tønsberg, Norway (922 275 696).
Attribution
Open Access article published under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. This permits anyone to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or form according to the licence terms.
Referencing Example (APA)
Author(s). (2025). Article title. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD13. Article ##. rsdsymposium.org/LINK
Citation data can be found at the bottom of each article.
Review Process
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD13 are published online and include papers and presentations, activity sessions, workshops, and systems maps and exhibits.
Papers and presentations were entered into a single-blind peer-review process, meaning reviewers could see the authors’ names but not vice versa. Reviewers considered the quality of the proposed contribution and whether it addressed topics of interest or raised relevant issues in systemic design. The review process provided feedback and possible suggestions for modifications.
The Programme Committee reviewed and assessed workshops, activities, and systems maps and exhibits with input from the Scientific Committee.
Conference Hosts
Birger Sevaldson, Jonathan Rhomm, and Andreas Wettre (Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
Scientific Committee
Birger Sevaldson (Chair), Jonathan Rhomm (Co-Chair), Andreas Wettre (Co-Chair), Peter Jones
Programme Committee
Birger Sevaldson (Chair), Maija Hauger, Jens Benjamin Romm, and Cheryl May
Proceedings Editor
Cheryl May
