STREAMING KNOWLEDGE
October 7–10
2025
Paper Talks delivered by their authors
October 7–10, 2025 | online
Paper Talks feature peer-reviewed papers presented online by their authors in curated sessions that juxtapose contributions in agreement as well as in contrast. A subject matter expert guides each session, allowing for direct dialogue and feedback, with a particular emphasis on inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to systemic design. These sessions provide a valuable opportunity to engage with knowledge, methods and practices across leadership, regeneration, learning, health, and methodologies.
The Paper Talks were preceded by invitational sessions, hosted by Peter Jones, highlighting three core research areas: flourishing, systemic practices in Latin America, and dialogic design.
systems thinking + design methodologies
Systemic Design Association
thanks to the reviewers
97 papers
representing the work of 218 authors
advance publication
documents are online
RSD14 CHAIR: Peter Hayward Jones
RSD14 Papers
The following papers are accepted through peer review and available as an advance online publication. Authors can make revisions until April 2026, and the final papers will be available in the searchable repository by fall 2026.
A–F
A Pedagogy for Systems Oriented Design: Facilitating Learning for and in Very Complex Systems →
A Systematic Literature Review of Systemic Visualisations in Design →
A Systemic Design Approach to Dyadic Support in the Care of Multiple Sclerosis →
A Tale of Two Conceptual Tools →
Action Without a Plan—Passion, intention, cybernetics →
Art, Design, and the Interface in the Woven Skin Project →
Assessing Elusive Things in Sociotechnological Innovation →
Assessing the Transformative Potential of Methodological Innovation in the Planning Sector →
Barriers to and Opportunities for Scaling Climate Assemblies in Sweden →
Beyond Certainty: Opening spaces for systemic transformation through relational practice →
Beyond Metrics: Rethinking purpose, innovation, and social impact evaluation in SMES →
Biobarnacle: The ecosystemic urban intervention →
Bioinspired 3D Fabrication for the Integration of Architecture, Materials, and Construction →
Community-Rooted, Ecoregion-Oriented Systemic Design for Climate-resilient Food Systems →
Connecting the Dots: Health system transformation →
Conversations That Matter: A toolkit to guide end-of-life conversations →
Cultivating Capabilities for Co-design →
Designers Catalysing Transitions Through Systemic Boundary Objects →
Designing for Relationality in Ageing in Place →
Designing Regenerative Urban Futures—Systemic strategies for equitable heat resilience in UK cities →
Dilemmas When Designing Beyond Disciplines →
Empowering Lifestyle Changes and Health Identity—A transdisciplinary design methodology →
Engaging Ecosystem Concepts in Bricolage—Towards a timely and relational ecosystem approach →
Examining the Impact of Systemic Design in Post-Disaster Context →
Exploring the Solution Space—Landing zones as a tool for systemic intervention channels →
Feminist Pragmatist Stories and Strategies for Social Systems Design →
G–R
Gigamaps for Education in Systemic Sustainable Circular Product Design →
Grasping Systems—Design of an educationaltTangible systems modelling kit →
Honeybees, Nature, and Arcs of Circularities →
How Can Graphic Design Contribute to Sustainability Transformation? →
How Ripple Effects Influence Nurses’ Use of Technology →
Humbling Systemic Design—Learning when not to intervene in complex social systems →
Isiaroma—50 Years of Systemic Design Education and Design Methodology →
Mapping Relational Dimensions of Systemic Co-design Practice →
Mapping Stakeholder Interconnectedness in Recife’s Solid Waste Management Map →
Marina Waisman and the Systemic Turn in Architectural Thinking—History, memories, and cybernetics →
Multi-Scale More-Than-Human Atlas Gigamapping– →
Pacing Changes, Appreciating Approaches to Systems and Designing →
Pluriversal Systems Practice: Beyond systemic design →
Practising Systemic Design– Insights from the Delft Systemic Design Lab →
Reflections on Bringing a Relational Perspective to Systemic Design Work in Disability Services →
Relational Pathways—Navigating science, education, and partnership for global futures →
Research on Tactile Experience Design in Art Spaces for the Blind →
Rethinking Systems Thinking Education—Is a paradigm shift needed in systems thinking education? →
S–X
Scaling and Proximity in Systemic Material Innovation →
Seeds of Recilience—Planting speculations about sustainable urban futures →
Sense-Mapping and the Ongoingness of Relational Systems Change →
System Rizz—Exploring the role of charismatic authority in systemic design →
Systemic Design Lens for Social Innovation →
Systemic Lessons from Authoritarian Leaders: Implicit assumptions in systemic design →
The Analogy of Orchestration in Systemic Co-design →
The Extreme Conditions Design Lab: Innovating for arid futures →
The Interplay of “Can and Should” →
The Map Maker Lied: Teaching systems through embodied play →
The Value of Systemic Thinking Informed Co-Design for Understanding Public Dental Care Experiences →
The VUCAcanvas—A framework for strengthening human and relational capacities in CAS →
Think-and-Do Tank: Systemic approach to robust public action and learning transitions →
Towards Systemic Participatory Prototyping of Interactive Software →
Traces of Design—Reframing military practice as systemic design methods →
Transforming Technical Systems Through Co-Design—A case study in complexity and collaboration →
Transition Templates, Year Two →
Transversal Design—The speculative praxis of prophetic futuring →
Understanding Organisations Through Systems Oriented Design →
What Are Paradigms? Towards systemic design for paradigm change through Quantum Theory →
When Science Confronts LLMs Both Knowledge Production and Trust Must Co-Evolve →
the dynamic nature of communication between parties suggests recursive feedback based on the understanding, interpretation, reinterpretation, and modification in the feedback loops
Aleksandra Stasiak and Kristin Støren Wigum
Integrating Systemic Design and Recursive Communication in the Context of Circular Economy and Shared Value Creation (RSD14 PAPER)
charisma’s informal authority over system activities and its distinctive relational qualities also position it as an intriguing but largely underexplored subject in the context of systemic design
Ruth Schmidt
System Rizz: Exploring the Role of Charismatic Authority in Systemic Design (RSD14 paper)
RSD14 Committee & Reviewers
CHAIR
Peter Hayward Jones
PROJECT MANAGER
Morgan Bath
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
David Ing
Cheryl May
Ryan J.A. Murphy
Perin Ruttonsha
REVIEWERS A–C
Adeline Hvidsten
Aleksandra Stasiak
Alessandra Savina
Alma Leora Culen
Amina Pereno
Andreas Wettre
Andrzej Klimczuk
Anja Overdiek
Anna Kirah
Armand van Oostrom
Ayşe Kaplan Sarısaltık
Birger Sevaldson
Carla Sedini
Catherine Letondal
Cecilia Landa-Avila
Cheryl May
Chiara Battistoni
Christine De Lille
Claudia Garduño García
Claudia Westermann
Cristina Marino
REVIEWERS D–N
Danielle Lake
Danielle Vossebeld
David Ing
David Sánchez Ruano
Donna Maione
Eunki Chung
Evan Barba
Eve Pinsker
Frank Berkers
Hannah Goss
Harold Nelson
Helen Avery
Irem Tekogul
Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
Jenny Darzentas
John Cassel
John Darzentas
Jonathan Romm
Jotte De Koning
Jun Zhang
Justin Childress
Kärt Summatavet
Kristin Støren Wigum
Laura Niño Cáceres
Lesley-Ann Noel
Liliya Terzieva
Lubomir Popov
Luke Feast
Marco Kellhammer
Mari Suoheimo
Maria Fernanda Ramirez Cifuentes
Maria Vitaller del Olmo
Marie Davidová
Martina Liboni
Michael Arnold Mages
Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer
Nicholas Stevens
Nina Costa
REVIEWERS P–Z
Paul Pangaro
Perin Ruttonsha
Peter Jones
Peter Troxler
Philipp Heidkamp
Ryan Murphy
Sahil Thappa
Silvia D’Ambrosio
Simge Goksoy
Simin Tao
Sine Celik
Sofia Bosch Gomez
Susan Evans
Thomas J McLeish
Thomas Jun
Thomas Maiorana
Tim Tompson
Tore Gulden
Vanessa Rodrigues
Vesna Brujic-Okretic
Victor Udoewa
Wen Lu
Zichao Nie
about SDA
SDA is a non-profit scholarly association leading the research and practice of design for complex systems.
The Systemic Design Association (SDA) was founded as a membership association on October 23, 2018, and registered with the Brønnøysund Register Centre in Norway. The Statutes for the Systemic Design Association guide the work of the association.
Aspirations
- to be a cohort of scholar-practitioners
- to promote shared and collaborative inquiry into the nature and potential of systemic design and designers
- to function as a centre for the integration of systems and design
- to reflect a systemically designed social system that can influence other traditions of inquiry in science and design
- to pose well-formed questions that affect inquiry into the stance and approach of systemic design; to present case studies of successful systemic designs to a broad professional and public audience
- to maintain a diverse approach to collegial inquiry while developing methods for evaluating systemic design inquiry
- to facilitate the design of systemic design inquiring systems
- to serve as a crucible for individual creative thinking, ranging across methods, practices and philosophy
Reference: § 0 About the Systemic Design Association