The RSD3 proceedings were originally published by The Oslo School of Architecture and Design with ISBN 978-82-547-0263-5. They were first made available on systemic-design.org and moved to this website in 2020 where they became part of a searchable repository of systemic design. The proceedings are now associated with ISSN 2371-8404. For archival purposes, the original publication can be accessed via the Wayback Machine.
CITATION
Sevaldson, B., & Jones, P.H. (Ed.s). (2015). Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD3. https://rsdsymposium.org/proceedings-of-rsd3/
Note: Citation details are available for individual articles at the bottom of each page.
RSD3 Keynotes & Talks
Introduction to the Proceedings of RSD3—Relating Systems and Design
Birger Sevaldson and Peter Jones
A Systems Literacy Manifesto
Hugh Dubberly
Bringing Complexity into Service Design Research
Daniela Sangiorgi
Knowing and Designing
Ranulph Glanville
Life’s Work: The kinds of growth we need
John Thackara
Self-Organizing a Strange Attractor
Harold Nelson
RSD3 Panels & Plenaries
RSD3 did not include panels or plenary sessions.
RSD3 Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
A Systems Literacy Manifesto
Hugh Dubberly
Staging Systems to Feel Round the Corners of Transition Design
Cameron Tonkinwise and Joshua Bloom
Design Literacy—From Primary Education to University Level
Liv Nielsen, Petter Naess, Janne Reitan, Ingvild Digranes, Arild Berg, Ingvill Maus, and Peter Jones
The Many Faces of Design: From adaptive response to creative agency to reflective engagement
Perin Ruttonsha and Stephen Quilley
Design Methods for Systemic Design Research
Peter Jones
Incubating Service Systems Thinking: New frames for collaborating on a pattern language for service systems
David Ing
The Home as a Service: A service and systems design approach to ownership, development and value
Helena Polati Trippe
Systems Thinking for Service Design: A natural partnership
John Darzentas and Jenny Darzentas
Human-Centring a Mental Health Service System
Karen Oikonen, Adam Starkman, Peter Jones, and Andrea Yip
Reevaluating the Value of Primary Care Using Design Thinking
Marc Matthews, Allison Matthews, Rose Anderson, Jo Bernau and Lorna Ross
The Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige: Re-imagining facilitation through trials of systemic design for public policy
Keren Perla
Design Science in Health Care: co-designing an optimized patient pathway at a gynecological clinic of a large hospital in Switzerland
Hans Kaspar Hugentobler
A Communications Canvas to Improve and Individualize Patient Engagement in Healthcare Systems Redesign
Deaunne Denmark and Danielle Olson
MySchoolsNetwork – Online educational platform explained by means of a multilevel design approach
Peter Joore, Ron Barendsen and Roelien Bos-Wierda
Adopting Design for All: Accelerating learning and adaptation at organizational and societal scales
Jenny Darzentas and John Darzentas
Wicked Design 101: Teaching to the complexity of our times
Patricia Beirne
Analyzing, Projecting and Synthesizing Real-World Problems from a Designer Perspective: Exploratory study to tackle poverty in Egypt
Doaa El Aidi
Facilitating Creative Networks
Sine Celik, Peter Joore, and Han Brezet
Benefits of Design Practice in Fieldwork: How Artesanía para el Bienestar emerged in the field as a concept to improve access to Healthcare in a Mayan Community in Campeche, Mexico
Theresa Berg, Suvi Kajamaa, and Claudia Garduño García
Now and Then: Co-designing systems smart enough for the future
Matthew Hollingshead and Josina Vink
Designing Products and Services for Challenging Societal Contexts
Ana Laura Rodrigues Santos, Jairo Da Costa Junior, and Linda Wauben
Saving Lives, By Design: Using systems thinking to combat maternal mortality In India
Michel de Blois and James Eaves
Return to the (Managed) Wild: Interpreting human settlements as “designer ecosystems”
Perin Ruttonsha
Professional Application of Systems Oriented Design: Developments in practice
Jonathan Romm and Adrian Paulsen
Strategy is the Solution—but what is the problem?
Benedicte Wildhagen
Designing for Health at Sea
Linda Natalia Tunheim
Designing for Acute Psychiatric Care in a Learning Process of Systems Oriented Design
Cathrine Einarsson
Holistic and Dynamic Concepts in Design
Birger Sevaldson
Network Mapping of Housing Systems: The case of medium-density dwelling design in Australia
Jasmine S. Palmer
ACCESSCITY—A Systems Enquiry and Response on Urban Transport in Indian Megacities
Mahaan Ghose and Praveen Nahar
Designing Towards the Leverage Points in an Open Innovation Project for Digital Urban Transport Interventions
Tim Tompson
Drawing Futures Together. Diagrams for the Design of Scenarios of Future Liveable Cities
Serena Pollastri
Generating the Design Process with Gigamap: The development of the Loop Pavilion
Marie Davidová
Using Material Properties to Understand and Shape Relationships in Public and Social Services
Manuela Aguirre and Adrian Paulsen
Sustainable Integration in Norway: A social systems design approach
Ian Percy and Brita Nielsen
Lessons From the Field: A first evaluation of working with the elaborated social dimension of the framework for strategic sustainable development
Merlina Missimer, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, and Göran Broman
Disruptive Innovation Reframed: Insurgent design for systemic transformation
Alex Ryan and Michael Dila
Clashing Cultures—A systemic examination of onboard and destination cultures in cruise tourism
Carolin Kowollik and Wolfgang Jonas
Caring for the Future: The systemic design of flourishing enterprises
Peter Jones and Antony Upward
Reimagining the Future: The biomimetic economy
Ryan Church, Ksenia Benifand and Nihal Ahmed
Designing for Our New Scale: A provocation
Zachary Kaiser and Gabriel Schaffzin
From Systems to Software
Tim Sheiner
How easily understandable are complex multi-layered system maps?
Alfred Clatworthy Holmen and Gyuchan Thomas Jun
RSD3 Workshops & Interactives
RSD3 did not include workshops or interactives.
RSD3 Maps & Exhibits
RSD3 did not include maps & exhibits.
Copyright Information
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design published the Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD3.
This volume predates the formation of the Systemic Design Association.
Since 2018, Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (ISSN 2371-8404) have been 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
All articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share, copy, distribute, and adapt the work, provided proper credit is given to the authors and the original source. Authors retain full copyright of their work.
Review Process
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD3 is published online and includes abstracts for presented papers and information on keynote sessions. Abstracts 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.
RSD maintains a rigorous peer-review process to uphold scholarly integrity and ensure quality. To guarantee long-term preservation, all content is archived via the repository, RSDsymposium.org.
Referencing Example (APA)
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