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Coordinated Management of Meaning

COMMUNITY (AC)CHORDS
October 3–6

RSD14-RSDX TICKETS
WHAT TO EXPECT
Striking a community ac(chord)

October 3–6, 2025 | online

RSDX is guided by the community-led chords that run across systemic design, connecting points that might not otherwise meet. The annual programme is a co-creation that emerges from the open call for contributions, with co-organisers shaping conversations that reflect the current arcs of impact. This year, our aim is to foster a sense of relational harmony by tuning into each other’s work and experiencing systemic design across contexts, cultures, and constellations of practice.

Pre-reads: arc25 relationality
tuning into each other’s work

connecting points of interest

sessions across all time zones

Hub filter for Americas East, Americas West, Asia-Pacific, Europe-Africa, and S-Asia

30 sessions

strike your chord with talks and workshops

open to all

there’s a pay-what-you-can option and RSDX is part of the RSD14-TORONTO and RSD14-LEADERSHIP ticket

SESSIONS
SCHEDULE
SYSTEMIC DESIGN ASSOC
Systemic Design Association

RSDX CO-CHAIRS:
Cheryl May & Ryan JA Murphy

Design your RSDX experience

This year’s RSD14-RSDX (online) festival features six framing conversations for leadership, design frontiers, living systems, futures, and knowledge ecologies. With a mix of in-depth discussions, hands-on sessions, and applied examples, you can shape your RSDX experience around interactives, panels, talks, and workshops, based on your time, interests, and areas of focus.

RSD14-ONLINE

CAD40
  • This ticket includes all ONLINE sessions (October 3 to 21 inclusive) and livestream sessions from all events. This is a non-profit, professional gathering. The suggested minimum is 40 CAD; however, a pay-what-you-can option (starting at $1) is available to reduce financial barriers or for guests who are only joining one or two sessions.
REGISTER
open to all

RSDX is open to everyone interested in systemic design. Pay what you can and join what you can. Here is the full line-up

  • This event, RSDX, from October 3 to 6, are community-led and hosted by the Systemic Design Association.*
  • October 8 to 10 are peer-reviewed Paper Talks.
  • Relational Connectedness, October 11, is organised by the Coordinated Management of Meaning Institute.
  • Ecologies of Knowing, October 12, is organised by the American Society of Cybernetics, #NewMacy

*Please note workshops have limited capacity—pre-register for workshops on Zoom Events.

The online programme is hosted on Zoom Events, offering a single link to join and features such as the ability to add sessions directly to your calendar. The interactive agenda will be accessible via Zoom Events by the first week of September, so you can plan your itinerary.

the fundamental premise of contrapractices is that nothing changes unless practices change

Dulmini Perera and Tony Fry
A Conversation on Contrapractice

Another channel: Contexts

it’s essential to make it both accessible to newcomers and useful for all discussion and decision-making contexts, not just formally constituted design projects

Gerald Midgley
Beyond Systemic Design Methodologies: Systems thinking as an everyday practice |

the basics

forest streams
join via the online hub

One link to all sessions from the RSD14 online landing page. The agenda with all session descriptions is posted, and you can add the ones you want to join directly to your calendar. Can’t make it? Recordings are available immediately after each session.

the frequencies

daisies trying to push up through a crack in a rock
framing conversations & talks

The framing conversations set the frequencies, bringing forward questions, tensions, and insights. The talks and panels pick these up in more focused or applied ways, extending, intensifying, or contextualising the concepts.

VECTORS

vector image of hand and three vector points. From https://www.britannica.com/science/vector-physics
workshops

Online workshops are a popular RSDX feature and fill up fast. Please note they have limited capacity—pre-register for workshops on the RSD14 online hubs.

Image: https://www.britannica.com/science/vector-physics

RSD14-RSDX Sessions

Join the hub, set up your itinerary, and add sessions to your calendar.

Synthesis Mapping at OCADU

Synthesis Mapping at OCADU

Mursal Ashrafi, Jillian Harris, Aavrati Kushwaha, Beyza Ozmen, and Mursal Ashrafi; Janine Pierre, Luke Correia-Damude, Brandon Measawige, and Danielle Pierre; Jennifer Murphy, Cheryl Green, and Ian Rolson; Reshmi Bisessar, Katrina Heschel, Nathalie Robertson, Doug Reid, and Allison Campbell-Rogers

RSDX team

RSDX CO-CHAIRS

Cheryl May, London South Bank University | cheryl@systemic-design.org

Ryan Murphy, Memorial University of Newfoundland | ryan@fulcra.design

 RSD14 CHAIR

Peter Hayward Jones, OCADU, Tecnológico de Monterrey, pjones@tec.mx

SYSTEMIC DESIGN ASSOCIATION CHAIR

Marie Davidová

SDA TREASURER

Palak Dudani

SDA BOARD MEMBERS

Manuela Aguirre

Chiara Battistoni

Thomas Jun

Tom Maiorana

RSDX
Systemic Design Association
Systemic Design Association's Contexts Journal
arcs of impact october 8 to 18 at OCAD University

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