Read the full introduction to the RSD4 symposium proceedings
Banff, British Columbia, Canada | October 2015
Published by: Systemic Design Research Network
ISBN: 978-0-9950245-0-2
The proceedings are published and available online as open access documents.
Citation: Author. (2015). Article title. In Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD4) 2015 Symposium. Banff, Canada, September 1-3, 2015.
RSD4 – Systemic Design Research Network
Editors & Co-Chairs: Alex Ryan, MaRS, and Peter Jones, OCADU
The RSD4 symposium turned a corner, moving from Oslo, Norway to Banff, British Columbia (Canada) and enlarging the scope of papers and talks from previous years. The proceedings represent 40 authors across a range of related fields of design and systemics.
Five keynote speakers presented a range of compelling intellectual engagements, from Don Norman’s provocations to develop a design practice capable of dealing with significant complexity to Lia Patricio’s resonant case study and model of integration in the Portuguese health records system to AP-J’s cutting-edge architectural models. Ursula Tischner and Mugendi M’Riitha shared leading sustainability approaches.
RSD4 Symposium Proceedings
RSD symposium proceedings are listed in the following order: introduction, keynote speakers, workshops, papers, systems maps.
RSD4 – Developing a Systemic Design Research Network
RSD4 Co-Chairs & Editors, Alex Ryan and Peter Jones: A range of compelling intellectual engagements, from Don Norman’s provocations to develop a design practice capable of dealing with significant complexity, to Lia Patricio’s resonant case study and model of integration in the Portuguese health records system, to AP-J’s cutting-edge architectural models.
Framework for Co-creating Service Platforms
RSD4 Keynote. Lia Patricio: Designing Portuguese electronic health records.
Designing for Emergence for Radically Contingent Problems
RSD4 Keynote. Ann Pendleton-Jullian: How do we have agency in a white water world – rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent?
Can HCD Help with Complex Sociotechnical Systems?
RSD4 Keynote. Don Norman: Design schools need to change, but how?
Renewing Africa’s Quest for Sustainable Energy
RSD4 Keynote. Mugendi M’Rithaa: More access to phones than water.
Crowd based Systemic Design and Innovation for Sustainability
RSD4 Keynote. Ursula Tischner: We need to dematerialize.
Evaluation at the Frontiers of Systemic Design
SEPTEMBER 2015
Designing Flourishing Societies as a Practice of Cultural Futures
SEPTEMBER 2015
A Case Study of Cultivating Youth Empowerment
SEPTEMBER 2015
Value Platforms as Compass in System Oriented Design for Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 2015
Seeding and Spreading Capacity for Systems Design across Social Service Organisations
SEPTEMBER 2015
On the Same Page, Giving Form to Complexity
SEPTEMBER 2015
Moving towards Systems and Design Thinking through Implementation Science
SEPTEMBER 2015
Co-design for Second-Order Effects and Institutional Change
Evan Barba and Audrey Stewart
Systemic Design of an Idea Zone at a Science Center
SEPTEMBER 2015
Designing Interventions in a Complex Health Care Setting
SEPTEMBER 2015
More than the Sum of its Parts: Systems Thinking in Design Education
SEPTEMBER 2015
Gigamaps: Their role as bridging artefacts
Birger Sevaldson
Reforming the Family Justice System Initiative
SEPTEMBER 2015
Professional Application of Systems Oriented Design
SEPTEMBER 2015
Formulating the Oslo Questions
SEPTEMBER 2015
Public Sector Purchasers as Curators and Value Creators in the Food System
SEPTEMBER 2015
Multi-Modeling: A Systemic Approach to Business Solution Design
SEPTEMBER 2015
Systems Design Combining Rational Design and Evolution
SEPTEMBER 2015
A Case Study on Systems Change in the Charitable Sector
SEPTEMBER 2015
The Implicit Ethics of Designing
Ben Sweeting
The Alberta CoLab Experience: Embedding Systemic Design in Government
SEPTEMBER 2015
A History of Design’s Sense of Complexity
SEPTEMBER 2015
Scaling-up Nutrition: Bridging the Great Indian Hunger Divide
SEPTEMBER 2015
Conditions that Foster an Ability to Reframe Problems
SEPTEMBER 2015
Environmental Policy Development and Decision-Making
SEPTEMBER 2015
Designing Technological Apparatuses for Confrontation
SEPTEMBER 2015
Ski2LRT: Systemic Design to Transform Winter Community in Edmonton
SEPTEMBER 2015
Emergence of a Convergence: Systemic Synergies between Entrepreneurship and Design Processes
SEPTEMBER 2015
Scaling In: Towards a Paradigm of Abundance within Limits
SEPTEMBER 2015
The Immigrant Service Journey as an Eye-Opener in Complex Governmental Systems
SEPTEMBER 2015
Perspectives on the Design of Resilient Systems
SEPTEMBER 2015
Permaculture as a Systemic Design Practice
SEPTEMBER 2015
Systems Thinking for Design Thinking.
SEPTEMBER 2015
Systemic Design for Food Sustainability
Silvia Barbero