3 days

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€175 one day/€350 full event

The Programme

Organised by the ESC, RSD12-Amsterdam is a three-day event takes place at Pakhuis de Zwijger, a former warehouse on the Piet Heinkade, opened in 2006 as an accessible, independent, safe public meeting place and state-of-the-art online environment. The Pakhuis de Zwijger Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation committed to the future of daily life in the city and the country, is providing in-kind support for the venue and contributing to the planning and event management. The third day is a walk in the woods, where participants can get involved in deeper conversations and reflections while wandering through Dutch nature.

ESC will host the conference as a team of professors and senior researchers responsible for programming and planning the event.

Expertisenetwerk Systemisch Co-design (ESC) | Expertise Network Systemic Co-design

• Inholland University of Applied Sciences (Secretariat)
• The Hague University of Applied Sciences
• Utrecht University of Applied Sciences
• Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
• Northumbria University

The Challenges

The programme is dedicated to two large societal transition challenges:

• Focus on a Sustainable and Circular Society
• A Healthy and Vital Citizenry
• A Secure and Just Digital Life
• Educating in Times of Transitions
• Focus on Deepening and Reflection

In addition to five speakers, there are fifteen parallel physical workshops organised in subgroups to learn and play. The programme includes collective reflections/endings about what is emerging in entanglement.

De-conference

The third day will be set up as a reflective walk in the woods with systemic reflection exercises to help you untangle some of the entanglements we have just co-designed together. A bus will take you from Amsterdam into the beautiful Dutch nature. During a walk of about three hours, there will be the opportunity to deepen new relationships and insights. The exercises that we will experience together can also be brought back by you to your own systems for further development, play and experimentation. Of course, there will also be a picnic with Dutch specialties such a hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles).

Fringe Sessions

The fringe sessions are held in the evening on Tuesday, October 10 and Wednesday, October 11 there will be book presentations of new books from ESC partners Wina Smeenk, about Societal Co-Design and Bas van den Berg, about Regenerative Educating in Times of Transitions. The book presentations are free of charge but only a limited number of spots will be available; make sure you register on time.

Please note: the fringe programmes, as well as the books, will be in Dutch.

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Systemic Co-Design

Systemic design is a problem-solving approach that helps co-design projects understand the interconnected systems that contribute to a problem and develop interventions that address the root causes of the problem.

• Co-design can be used to engage stakeholders and end-users in the systemic design process. How can systemic design help ensure that solutions are more effective, equitable, and responsive to the needs and perspectives of those impacted by them?
• The combination of systemic design and co-design can help create more inclusive and equitable solutions that address the root causes of complex problems by involving a diverse group of people in the design process and examining the underlying systems that contribute to a problem. What co-design use cases demonstrate effective, sustainable, and responsive solutions that meet the needs of all communities involved?