Greg Van Alstyne, David Ing, Peter Scott, and Zaid Khan
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Workshops OCADU
On-campus workshops offer immersive, hands-on systemic design experiences. There’s a full day of sessions at OCAD University on Wednesday, October 15, with more on Saturday, October 18. Workshops have limited capacity. For dates and times, and to register, visit the RSD14-TORONTO schedule.
Lessons From the Field: Exploring effective systemic design practices with organisations
Tim Tompson, Leanne Sobel, Emma Blomkamp, and Elsa Henderson
Advancing the Adoption of Systemic Design in Changemaking Organisations: Applying and critiquing the SHIFT framework
Lewis Muirhead, Ryan Murphy, and Louise Gallagher
Tangle Circuits and the Limits of Knowing
Louis Kauffman and Thomas Fischer
Making Non-Sense: A game of designed ambiguity for unshaping our collective identity
Mario Marquez Lartigue
Improving the Airport Experience: The role of empowerment and interconnection
Aniek Toek, Estefania Ciliotta Chehade and Najla Mouchrek
Making the Case for Systemic Change
Andre Nogueira and Kristel van Ael
What’s in a Game? Using game features to analyse systems
Marie-Hélène Fokias and Vanessa Toye
Relational Aliveness: Feeling our way into systems design
Naoko Ellis and Derek Gladwin
Embodied Systems: An escape room experience for systemic designers
Tom Maiorana
Practising Systemic Relationality: Applied methods for revealing and reworking system relationships
Rhea Kachroo, Annand Ollivierre, and Autumn Sanders
Dialogic Watercolours: Designing spaces for practising relationality in complex systems navigation
Leander Kreltszheim
Lost in Translation? Regenerative practices for bridging knowledge
Natalia Radywyl and Debra Polson
Why not wait? What is the pace of your change?
Dan Eng and Evgenya Nee
Camping and More: A simple case study workshop on applying Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model
Allenna Leonard
Relational Changemaking: #1 Order in Chaos
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #2 Reductionism Reconciled
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: # 3 Parallel Worlds
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #4 Power and Vulnerability
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #5 Shadows and Archetypes
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #6 Relational Well-being
Perin Ruttonsha
Relational Changemaking: #7 Fierce and Quiet Kinds of Love
Perin Ruttonsha
Towards Living System Maps: Reimagining systemic design tools as adaptive, inclusive, and participatory infrastructures—with and beyond AI
Dulaj Perera, Jairo da Costa, Wouter Eggink, and Geke Ludden