systemic design in Latin America
systemic design day
papers & workshops
two keynotes
₱tba
registration in September
design research
Universidad Nacional de Colombia | 6 de octubre de 2023 | Bogotá, Columbia
English follows
La Maestría en Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y el Cuarto Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Diseño se asocian con la Universidad de Georgetown y la Systemic Design Association en el simposio Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD12). RSD12-Bogotá se llevará a cabo en la sede Bogotá de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia el próximo 6 de octubre, uniéndose a la red de RSD12-HUBS en 12 ciudades y a la programación virtual de talleres, conferencias magistrales y paneles.
The Master in Design of the National University of Colombia and the Fourth International Congress of Research in Design have partnered with Georgetown University and the Systemic Design Association in the symposium Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD12). RSD12–Bogotá will take place at the Bogotá headquarters of the National University of Colombia on October 6, joining the RSD12-HUBS network in 13 cities and RSD12-ONLINE virtual programming of papers, workshops, keynote speeches and panels.
The New Spaces for the Arts building | Photo: Jeimi Villamizar–Unimedios
On October 6, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Diseño (CIDI) opens RSD12—2 weeks of systemic design events—with a focus on design research and exploring design in Latin America’s cultural, social, economic, and environmental context.
Design research is well-known to product designers, graphic designers, industrial designers, architects, interaction designers, and UX/UI designers. It is complementary to systemic design—which offers collaborative frameworks, interdisciplinary approaches, and eco-social perspectives for design research—and supports studying and understanding complex, interconnected challenges embedded within social, cultural, economic, and environmental systems. Systemic design also deeply involves stakeholders from the studied system and, more recently, post-anthropocentric thinking, inclusive of non-living nature and artificial intelligence or robots.
Los seres humanos incorporan artefactos al cuerpo desnudo para aumentar sus capacidades agentivas originales (agencia aumentada). Además, los humanos atribuyen agencia a las cosas inanimadas mediante discursos ficcionales de manera estable, no solo en eventos excepcionales. Esto permite la relación con los artefactos como si tuvieran agencia humana (agencia “como si”). La atribución de agencia “como si” a los artefactos permite obtener ventajas psicológicas. La agencia aumentada concede ventajas prácticas. En la combinación de dichas ventajas se fusiona lo ficticio con lo fáctico. Esto tiene implicaciones que, lejos de ser triviales, se relacionan con el sistema de creencias, la normatividad y las cosmovisiones.
—Juan Carlos Mendoza-Collazos (2023) | CIDI-IV ponente
Human beings incorporate artifacts into the naked body to increase their original agentive capacities (augmented agency). Furthermore, humans ascribe agency to inanimate things through fictional discourse in a stable manner, not just in exceptional events. This allows relating to artifacts as if they had human agency (“as if” agency). The attribution of agency “as if” to artifacts allows psychological advantages to be obtained. Enhanced agency confers practical benefits. In the combination of these advantages, the fictional is merged with the factual. This has implications that, far from being trivial, are related to the belief system, regulations and worldviews.
—Juan Carlos Mendoza-Collazos (2023) | CIDI-IV Speaker
Reference
Mendoza-Collazos, J.C. (2023). Augmented agency and ‘as if’ agency in the Amazon: implications for a semiotics of artifacts. Sign And Thought, 41 . https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.syp41.aaac
Systemic Design Day
Day 3 of CIDI-IV- Tickets will be available in September.
Day 3 of UNAL & CIDI-IV Horizon+(es) is dedicated to systemic design.
RSD12-Bogotá is hosted by UNAL’s Faculty of Arts and the Master of Design programme, which focuses on the investigative capacity of design to generate knowledge and the exploration of design as a fundamental instrument for innovation.
Visit CIDI-IV for more information on the full three-day conference.
related to the belief system, regulations and worldviews
Juan Alfonso de la Rosa signs the mural of the UNAL New Spaces for the Arts building | Photo: Jeimi Villamizar–Unimedios.
Programme
RSD12-Bogotá is part of the Fourth International Conference on Design Research (CIDI-IV) Horizon+(en). The objective of CIDI-IV is to develop a space for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge together with national and international design research communities, thereby increasing recognition of local perspectives and the global South, and the value of conversation and constructive discussion for the growth of new perspectives amongst researchers from the National University and the rest of the country.
On the third day of CIDI-IV (October 6), RSD12-Bogotá seeks to explore the interconnectedness of design research and systemic design with a specific focus on design research and developments in systemic design in Latin America. Speakers, papers, presentations, and panels address the following aspects of design research: systemic design and future and design. These are presented as Axis 5 and Axis 6.
Axis 5 & Axis 6
Axis 5 invites all those projects that reflect on design as a systemic model, generating knowledge around its own disciplinary variables and practices, as well as the exploration of design as a fundamental instrument for innovation.
Axis 6 explores future and design (UI-UX). Virtual reality is not parallel to physical reality. Imbricated atoms and bits make up the reality of cultural objects and phenomena. What happens in the virtual environment of the different digital interfaces directly affects the tangible characteristics of bodies and the environment—for instance, demonstrations of protests in the streets of our cities are called through social networks, and people want to redesign their appearance to look like their avatars.
Visit CIDI-IV for more information on the full three-day conference.
If design can be defined as a facilitator of the strategic actions to achieve a transformation into a desirable or preferred state, then its role falls more in the future oriented planning of possible futures, and the definition of the actions and artefacts that can lead into that future.
—Juan de la Rosa & Leon Paul Hovanesian II (2019)
Reference
de la Rosa, J. & Hovanesian, L.P. II (2019). Using Systemic Design for the Understanding and Evolving of Organizational Culture. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD8. https://rsdsymposium.org/organisational-culture/
design research entanglements
English follows
RSD12: Entangled in Emergence es una exploración sistémica en múltiples escalas, abordando sistemas grandes y pequeños, globales y locales, definidos y débilmente estructurados como precursores necesarios para el desarrollo de estructuras, conexiones y patrones emergentes que moldean nuestro futuro.
¿En los sistemas caóticos, el caos hace que el futuro sea impredecible, pero el desarrollo de elementos de orden brindan el marco para el progreso.
¿Cómo pueden los administradores guiar conscientemente a sus equipos y proyectos hacia la estabilidad? ¿Cómo pueden asegurarse de que todas las voces sean escuchadas?
¿Como pueden lograr que las acciones sean justas y proporcionando visiones de un futuro mejor?
RSD12: Entangled in Emergence is a systemic exploration at multiple scales, addressing large and small, global and local, defined and loosely structured systems as necessary precursors to the development of emergent structures, connections and patterns that shape our future. In chaotic systems, chaos makes the future unpredictable, but the development of elements of order provide the framework for progress.
How can managers consciously guide their teams and projects toward stability?
How can you make sure all voices are heard?
How can they make actions just and provide visions of a better future?
RSD12-Bogotá Organisers
RSD is a project of the SDA
CONTACTS
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Robinson Alexander De Lavalle Herrera | radeh@unal.edu.co | Diseñador Líder—Diseño estratégico y diseño gráfico—Sede Tumaco
Juan Alfonso de la Rosa Munar | jadelarosam@unal.edu.co | Decano de la Facultad de Artes, Profesor Asociado, Escuela de Diseño Gráfico
Hub Partners
Tres días de conferencias, actividades y talleres alrededor de la investigación en diseño | 4, 5 y 6 de octubre de 2023 | Sobre el Cuarto Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Diseño Horizon+(es)
