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CITATION
Jones, P.H. (Ed.). (2017). Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD5. https://rsdsymposium.org/proceedings-of-rsd5/
Note: Citation details are available for individual articles at the bottom of each page.
RSD5 Keynotes & Talks
Introduction to the Proceedings of RSD5—Systemic Design for Social Complexity
Peter Jones
Co-designing for Society and Meta-systems
Humberto Maturana
Demoscopio Culture: How do we empower and liberate citizen’s voices in designing their own social systems?
Aleco Christakis and Maria Kakoulaki
Designing Conversations for Socially-Conscious Design
Paul Pangaro
Imagining a Co-Design Space for Systems
Liz Sanders
Interactivity Fields and Systems
Erik Stolterman
RSD5 Plenaries & Panels
Craft of Policy Design
Matthew Mendelsohn, Maureen O’Neil, Alex Ryan, and
Joeri van den Steenhoven
RSD5 Papers (Peer-Reviewed)
A Library of Systemic Relations
Birger Sevaldson
A Morphological Analysis Tool for Complex Future-Oriented Scenario Researches
Mehdi Mozuni and Wolfgang Jonas
Arational Design
Thomas Wendt
Building the Capacity of the Built Environment: The alternate city
Robert Mitchell and Jeremy Bowes
Case Study: Designing for Policy and Institutional Change in Governance
Nenad Rava
Citizens as Co-designers: Facilitating systemic change at the policy level
Karen Ingerslev and Trine Naldal
Codifying Systemic Design: A toolkit
Philippe Vandenbroeck and Kristel Van Ael
Collective Dreaming in a Virtual World: The first step
Darwin Muljono and Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders
Curriculum Making for Trito Learning: Wayfaring into a meshwork of systems thinking
David Ing and Susu Nousala
Democratizing Social Innovation: Establishing the platform of Internet of Things in India through Systemic Design Thinking and Design
Swayang Das, Beda Prakash Das, Sushant Arya, and Praveen Nahar
Designing for Emergence: Integrating systems and design
Greg Van Alstyne and Robert K. Logan
Designing Service Entanglements: Towards stakeholder-centered perspective in design
Eunki Chung
Designing Social infrastructures for Complex Service Systems
Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer
Developing a Systemic Design Practice to Support an Australian Government Regulatory Agency
Bridget Malcolm and Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer
Digital Manufacturing and the Future of Innovation Systems in Chicago
Carlos Teixeira and Laura Forlano
Enabling Systemic Transformations
Fredrik Eive Refsli and Dino Karabeg
Ethical Challenges of the Internet of Things in the Household Environment
Eleonora Fiore
Eudaimonic Flourishment though Healthcare System Participation in Annotating Electronic Health Records
Peter Pennefather, West Suhanic, Katie Seaborn, and Deb Fels
Facilitating Generative Emergence within Large-Scale Networks
Manuela Aguirre, Natalia Agudelo, and Jonathan Romm
Form Follows Meaning, Meaning Follows Form: Surrendering the innocence of design
Perin Ruttonsha
Hierarchy-in-Flux: Co-evolving a distributed user interface for orbiting robots
Evan Barba, Yasir Majeed, and Christopher Miller
Made-In-Canada System Ecology: Towards a more sustainable garment industry
Nourhan Hegazy, Prateeksha Singh, Christina Doyle and Caralyn Quan
Managing Creativity: Oxymoron or Necessity?
Sine Celik and Jo Van Engelen, Han Brezet, Peter Joore, and Linda Wauben
Mapping Controversy in Environmental Communication
Joanna Boehnert
Medicine in the Anthropocene: Modern healthcare and the transition to an ecologically viable society
Katharine Zywert
Permaculture Assessment: Finding reliable processes for assembling closed resource cycles and effective energy pathways
John Cassel
Playing with Fire: Designing with and for tension in groups
Alex Ryan, Alexander Baumgardt, and Paul Pangaro
Resilience: A multi-stakeholder perspective
Eloise Taysom and Nathan Crilly
Shaking Up the Status Quo in the Healthcare System
Vanessa Rodrigues and Josina Vink
Socio-Environmental Relations of Non-Discrete Spaces and Architectures
Marie Davidová
Synthesis Maps: Systemic design pedagogy, narrative, and intervention
Jeremy Bowes and Peter Jones
Systemic Design and Policy Making: The case of the Retrace Project
Silvia Barbero and Agnese Pallaro
Systemic Design as an Explanation of Powerful Learning Experience
Gordon Rowland
The Ethics of Ethics and the Ethics of Architecture
Ben Sweeting
The Reflection Room: Shifting from death-avoiding to death-discussing
Karen Oikonen, Paul Holyoke, Katherine Rizzi, Barry Stephenson, and Pam Sethi
The Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity Process
Allenna Leonard
Time and Transition
Joshua Bloom and Ahmed Ansari
Understanding Bitcoin Currency and Blockchain Technology as a Media System
Sarah Tranum
US SOCOM Goes Google
Philippe Beaulieu-Brossard
Using a Systems Design Model to Bring Clean Water to Rural and Slum Communities in India
Sarah Tranum
Visioning Labs with Displaced Academics
Tareq Emtairah, Helen Avery and Khaldoon Mourad
Visualising Project Actor-Networks with Oral Histories
Tim Tompson
RSD5 Workshops
#NewMacy ACT II: Studios
#NewMacy
Absence, Ignorance, Presence (AIP) – An Exformative Approach to Confronting Legacies of Oppression in Education
Francis Laleman
A Cybernetic Picnic
Ioannis (John) Bardakos, Claudia Jacques, and Claudia Westermann
Art as Steersmanship
Mark Sullivan and Fred Steier
Boundary Critique: The work of Werner Ulrich
Desmond Wong
Commoning by Design: Exploring commoning approaches for multispecies stakeholder cooperation in systemic design
Julia Schaeper and Glenn Robert
Cultural Premises, Conscious Purposes, and Design: Conversing with the legacies of Gregory Bateson and Vern Carroll
Eve Pinsker
Design with Togetherness: Cooperation among relations, systems, processes
Margherita Vacca
Designing a “bioregional regenerative economy”: how could that work, realistically?
Tobias Luthe, Haley Fitzpatrick, and Daniel Christian Wahl
En-ROADS: Using the Climate Interactive Tool for Designing and Planning
Jayanna Killingsworth
Framing a process model for design impact with a systemic lens
Anja Overdiek and Katinka Bergema
From Discord to Effective Innovation Cycles: Mitigating project team hierarchies
Nicole Norris, Alexis Tennent, Irena Pozgaj-Jones, Adam Dagenais, Joanne Renaux, and Shaun Alfonso
How can ethics, diversity and participative values be embedded into an artificial intelligence system?
Stefan Berres, Katharina Franz , Timea Illes-Seifert, and Galia Weidl
How do you think systemic design’s scholarship system should work?
Ryan J.A. Murphy, Marie Davidová, Stephen Davies, Lewis Muirhead, and Birger Sevaldson
Indigenising & Decolonising Social Innovation: Lessons for Systemic Design
Jodi Calahoo-Stonehouse
Panarchy as a Sensemaking Tool
Mikal Giancola
Investigating new scenarios in food preservation
Eleonora Fiore
Pandemic of Today’s AI
Carlos Castellanos, Xiao Zoe Fang, Paul Pangaro, and Eryk Salvaggio
Play Circular Families and Discover the Circular Citizens
Marianna Marchesi
Play Probes For Systemic Design Decisions
Pelin Celik, Olivia Hidalgo Miranda, Tore Gulden, Kristin Støren Wigum, Steen Ory Bendtzen, Nadiya Karibayeva, Florent Orsoni, and Julia Kunkel
Playing With The Trouble: Exploring (mini)games for interdisciplinary connections
Dan Lockton, Josephine Chambers, Jet Vervoort, Joost Mattheus Vervoort, Joyce Browne, Raimon Ripoll-Bosch, Suzan Ruijtenberg, Jessica Duncan, Maikel Waardenburg, and Lotte de Lint
Powers Of Ten: Mapping systems-level gaps using the SX Canvas
Luis Marines and Lucía Avila
Prosperity Thinking: Between the iceberg model and how might we question
Chhavi Jatwani, Matteo Vignoli, and Sara Roversi
Prototyping Conversation
Damian Chapman, Kate Doyle, and TJ McLeish
Prototyping Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Thomas Maiorana
Radiant Circles—Cybernetic Musings on Resonant Forms
Eryk Salvaggio and Claudia Westermann
Seeing Urban Food Futures in Brighton: A physical and virtual exploration in the city
Andre Viljoen
Sensemaking Workshop: Applying systemic design practice to generate new insights
Gina Belle, Emilia Lischke, and Cara Stewart
Sensing Our Way Through Design over Time
Gemma Drake, Rose Mosse
Sketchnotes for Systemic Design
Patricia Kambitch
SOU SOU Workshop: Supporting rituals through ritual, friendship, and play
Michael Schaus, Adrienne Pacini, Cheryl Hsu, and Kimberley Peter
Systems Works: Building capability to think in systems by understanding daily problems
Rohan Walsh and John Rbeiz
The Age of Planetary Systems Complexity
Perin Ruttonsha
The Book of Iteration: Workshop and introduction to the method
Evan Barba and J.R. Osborn
Unravelling Safety Through Place, People and Things
Swagata Naidu and Sucharita Beniwal
Welcome to the Village—Developing transformative literacy through embodiment
Dana Prives
Wordings and Worldings—DALL-E wordplays to visualise alternative metaphors for complex systems
Palak Dudani
Conceptual Action Sociometry for Spatial Meaning-Making around Soft Systems
Stephen Sillett
Design X: Sketching some future paths for design professionals
Susu Nousala, David Ing, and Peter Jones
Designing for an Abundance Mindset in Healthcare Food Service
Hayley Lapalme, Cheryl Hsu, Beth Hunter, and Jennifer Reynolds
Designing Resilient Urban Food Systems
Zachary Kaiser, Stephanie White, and Kurt Richter
Designing the Invisible—A Practitioner Dialogue
Josina Vink, Tai Huynh, Meagan Durlak, and Leslie Ruckman
Feeding Future Narratives: Building empathy with food through systemic design
Nourhan Hegazy and Prateeksha Singh
Gigamapping Workshop
Birger Sevaldson and Marie Davidova
Innovation Project Challenge
Greg Judelman
Participatory Stakeholder Engagement Approaches in Healthcare
Ana Matic and Goran Matic
Self-Managing the System of Healthcare
Russell Gundry
Systemic Design for UX (SD4UX)
Evan Barba
Toward A (Social) Science of Settlement—Part I: Place-based ideologies
Perin Ruttonsha
Towards a Systemic Design Toolkit: A practical workshop
Kristel Van Ael, Philippe Vandenbroeck, Peters, and Gentile Namahn
Uber Public Value: The role of systemic design in highly politicized economic and societal issues
Jerry Koh and Claire Buré
RSD5 Interactives
RSD5 did not include interactives.
RSD5 Maps & Exhibits
Analyzing Tools for Facilitation through the HEC Design Lens
Manuela Aguirre, Natalia Agudelo, and Jonathan Romm
CanImpact Synthesis Maps: Visual knowledge translation for primary care cancer research
Smriti Shakdher, Prateeksha Singh, and Peter Jones
Complexity and Design of Management Systems
Czeslaw Mesjasz, Katarzyna Bartusik, Tomasz Malkus, Krzysztof Wozniak, Mariusz Soltysik
Crime and Punishment
Ira Sharma, Janina Sick, Neha Thawali, and Deepesh Pancholi
Intelligent Ecosystem Open-Pit Mining GIGAMap
Petri Tanninen and Adriaan Davidse
Socio-Environmental Relations of Non-Discrete Spaces and Architectures: Systemic approach to performative wood
Marie Davidová
System Insights from WellAhead
Paul McArthur, Jerry Koh, Vani Jain, and Mali Bain
Systemic Design Toolkit Map
Kristel Van Ael, Namahn and Philippe Vandenbroeck
SystemViz Codex
Peter Stoyko
The Fabric of Social Seva
Alisha Nisar, Bhaskarjyoti Das, and Ramanuj Nanhoriya
Types of Systemic Relations (Urban Habitat Design)
Birger Sevaldson
Understanding Bitcoin Currency and Blockchain Technology as a Media System
Kimberley Peter and Michael Schaus
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The Systemic Design Research Network published the Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD5.
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).
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