RSD7 | 2018 | Politecnico di Torino | Turin, Italy
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design
ISSN 2371-8404 | Published by the Systemic Design Association
Challenging Complexity
Systemic Design towards Sustainability
Acknowledgements
Chair & Editor:
Silvia Barbero
Edition notice
RSD7 Symposium Proceedings
The RSD7 symposium was held at the Politecnico di Torino, 23rd-28th October 2018, for the first time in Italy, defining an important collaboration among the institutions that founded the Systemic Design Research Network (SDRN) in 2012. Not by chance, this symposium has seen the official establishment of the Systemic Design Association (SDA), with a public announcement on the first day.
RSD7 proceedings are listed in the following order: introduction, keynote speakers, workshops, interactives, papers, systems maps.
Introduction to the Proceedings of RSD7—Challenging Complexity by Systemic Design towards Sustainability
Silvia Barbero
RSD7 Publications
RSD7 publications document six inspiring keynote speakers, three plenary sessions, and 76 papers in downloadable formats.
Advanced Design Cultures: A learning system perspective
RSD7 Keynote. Roberto Iniquez Flores: In order to address the complexity of these new approaches design is evolving into a new cultures that are very diverse and emergent, these design cultures require a new characterization for its understanding.
Policy Design and Decision Making
RSD7 Keynote. Chelsea Mauldin: I propose that designers engaged in policy and systems change design new, adjacent policy systems, recognize the primacy and requirements of the human body, and more consciously identify and address imbalances in power in the systems in which we intercede.
Re-designing the Framework: Think natural, think local
RSD7 Keynote. Gunter Pauli: From energy production to soil analysis, we have to change the dogmas we are working with, we have to change the business models and the hypothesis we are believing. What can we do better? How can we design a better way forward?
Systemic Approach Generates a New Cultural Paradigm
RSD7 Keynote. Luigi Bistagnino: The Fibonacci’s sequence (also called “golden ratio”), indicates a sequence such that each number, starting from the third, is the sum of the previous two.
The Future of Hope: Social care for sustainable living
RSD7 Keynote. Chido Govera: The presentation explores approaches and interventions implemented by The Future of Hope Foundation to engage marginalized members of society, specifically women and girls in Zimbabwe.
With a Grain of Salt
RSD7 Keynote. Pille Bunnell: My intent with the title is to evoke a listening through the double meaning of “salis” implicit in Pliny’s original phrase “addito salis grano.” The word “salis” not only refers salt, it also refers to wit.
Systemic Design Association
Birger Sevaldson: New courses are showing at universities in Europe and the Americas, beyond those represented in the RSD discourse, as the interdiscipline grows in depth and applicability.
Systemic Design Toolkit
Peter Jones, Stefanos Monastiridis, Alex Ryan, Vanessa Toye, Kristel Van Ael, and Philippe Vandenbroeck
Practitioner Insights on Systemic Change from the New Plastics Economy Initiative
Plenary & Workshop. Widmer Simon: At the Ellen MacArthur Foundation we aim to transform key industries from a take-make-dispose model toward a circular economic one.
Radically Constructing Place
Paper & Workshop. Ben Sweeting
Alternative Narratives on Economic Growth: Prototyping change at the system level
OCTOBER 2018
Mapping Disciplinary Mobility for Tackling Complex Problems
OCTOBER 2018
System Design for Sustainability for All: S.PSS design applied to distributed economies
OCTOBER 2018
Designing Resilient Creative Communities through Biomimetic Service Design
OCTOBER 2018
Human-centered Approach for Flourishing: Discovering the value of service ecosystem design in psychosocial career counselling service
OCTOBER 2018
Mapping-and-Designing (in) Relationally Composed Fields
OCTOBER 2018
Design for Emergence
OCTOBER 2018
The Early Stage Analysis of a Systemic Innovation Lab
OCTOBER 2018
Packaging Reconditioned Household Appliances
OCTOBER 2018
Pre-fuzzy Front-End Alignment of Multiple Stakeholders in Healthcare Service Innovation: Unpacking complexity through service and systems oriented design in strategy sandboxes
OCTOBER 2018
A Reflection on Connecting Complexity Theory and Design for Policy
OCTOBER 2018
Finding the Emic in Systemic Design: Towards systemic ethnography
OCTOBER 2018
The dark side of high tech precious materials recovery: Overview on the critical issues, opportunities and best practices from a material library point of view
OCTOBER 2018
Analyzing OvestLab’s Collaborative Regeneration Process through a Systemic Design Lens
Daniele Bucci, Alessio Franconi, Federico Piovesan, and Silvia Tagliazucchi
The Impact of Food Production on Public Health: Systemic strategies for a diffused and transversal prevention plan
OCTOBER 2018
Understanding variations of entanglement and complexity: A way to influence expectations of Service and Systems Oriented Design in public sector
OCTOBER 2018
Give me the place to stand: Leverage analysis in systemic design
OCTOBER 2018
Systemic Design in Food Security and Resilience : Building A Holon
OCTOBER 2018
Landscapes and systemic design: Po river Delta (Italy) case
OCTOBER 2018
Measuring Sophistication in Systemic Design and Computing
Evan Barba and J.R. Osborn
The Contingent City: Decoding the possibilities of the city’s socio-spatial metabolism
OCTOBER 2018
Building Fashion’s Future: How to turn textiles’ wastes into ecological building products
OCTOBER 2018
Post-industrial Areas on the Lens of Systemic Design towards Flourishing Urban Resilience
Carolina Giraldo Nohra and Silvia Barbero
Systems Thinking for Service Design
Besplemennova Yulia and Tassi Roberta
Wicked Problems, Wicked Humor: Fun machines as a method to frame wicked problems in architecture
OCTOBER 2018
Business Experiments for Circular Urban Food Systems
Jan Konietzko, Nancy Bocken, and Erik Jan Hultink
Mapping the Circle Systemic Analysis of the Experiences of Circular Economy in Italy through an App
OCTOBER 2018
The Visual Representation of Complexity: Sixteen key characteristics of complex systems
Joanna Boehnert
A Constructivist and Soft View of Systemic Design: A tribute to Jean Michel Larrasquet’s work
OCTOBER 2018
Natural fibers insulation panels: an adaptive production
OCTOBER 2018
Systemic Network around Education and Community Gardens
OCTOBER 2018
Re-defining Journalism Education: Using systems thinking and design to revolutionize the future of storytelling
OCTOBER 2018
Beyond User-Centric Design
OCTOBER 2018
Repair = care:system stories from Norway and Ghana
OCTOBER 2018
Narrative and Value: Authorship in the story of money
OCTOBER 2018
Integrating Systems Design and Behavioral Science to Address Public Sector Challenges from Within
OCTOBER 2018
Co-designing a Social Innovation Model for Changemakers
OCTOBER 2018
Distinctions and Analogies: Mapping social system identity
OCTOBER 2018
Circular Economic Service System Design for Community Based Flood Resilience
OCTOBER 2018
The Systemic Design Approach Applied to Water Treatment in the Alpine Region
OCTOBER 2018
Permeating the Barriers Between the Individual and Policy Designers in Pakistan: A cross-cultural study of women’s mobility
OCTOBER 2018
Perspectives on Systemic Design: Examining heterogeneous relevant literature to provide a historical and ‘systemically inspired’ review
OCTOBER 2018
Regenerative Value Systems: Model(s) illustrating flows and transformations of value within production systems
Tom Snow
New strategies for the refrigerator in the transition towards a circular economy
Fiore Eleonora
Life Conservation: A study into systemic design for wildlife
OCTOBER 2018
Turin Food Atlas: Sharing knowledge towards urban food policies to develop circular cities
OCTOBER 2018
Trans-Co-Design in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance: The multi-layered media and agency in creative design and its processes
OCTOBER 2018
Co-design processes for cleaning and facilities services system
OCTOBER 2018
Systemic and Participatory Design Processes in Care Systems
OCTOBER 2018
Constitutional Realism and Sustainability: Lessons Learned From a Systemic Design Investigation of New Zealand’s Democratic System
OCTOBER 2018
Computational models in systemic design
OCTOBER 2018
Design as Adaptation
OCTOBER 2018
Continuous Improvement: How systems design can benefit the data-driven design community
OCTOBER 2018
The Nordics as World Leaders in Sustainable Healthcare and Why it Matters to You
OCTOBER 2018
Smart Specialization in Non-Metro Canadian Regions
OCTOBER 2018
Evolutionary Stakeholder Discovery: Requisite system sampling for co-creation
OCTOBER 2018
Binocular Vision of designing Process for Whole Systems Design Crossing Boundaries
William Travis Thompson, Flavio Mesquita Da Silva, and Frederick Steier
Data, Fashion System and Systemic Design approach: an information flow strategy to enhance sustainability
OCTOBER 2018
@Home in Transition: Encouraging asylum seekers towards more self-driven approaches to navigate the unknown they are surrounded with
Authors: Gharavi Niloufar and Hozhabri Melina
A Systems Approach to Sustainability in Space
OCTOBER 2018
Old Rope: Laing’s knots and Bateson’s double binds in systemic design
Dan Lockton, Lisa Brawley, Manuela Aguirre Ulloa, Matt Prindible, Laura Forlano, Karianne Rygh, John Fass, Katie Herzog, and Bettina Nissen
Systemic Design and its Discontents: Designing for emergence and accountability
Greg Van Alstyne, Carl Skelton, and Sylvia Nan Cheng
Participatory Design for Service Robotics
OCTOBER 2018
Design for the Taste-Makers: System oriented social innovation for improving the living condition of salt pan labourers
OCTOBER 2018
Integration of Art of Hosting methodologies and principles into social innovation lab practice
OCTOBER 2018
Systemic Design Labs: Incubating systemic design skills through experiential didactics and nature-based creativity
OCTOBER 2018
Socionas: Bringing the systemic view into the design for health and sustainability
OCTOBER 2018
The use of water for technical development or technical development for the use of water?
OCTOBER 2018
Ethos Design for a Good Quality Life : Building an innovation framework for individuals and organizations towards resilience and cognitive flexibility
OCTOBER 2018
Gearing up the Level of Systems Oriented Design in Public Sector: Case, experiences, and learning from Stimulab innovation program
OCTOBER 2018
Future Probing for Prodaptive Organizations
OCTOBER 2018
Design for Sustainability in Colombia
Vargas Espitia Adolfo, Guataquira Sarmiento Nataly Andrea, Àlvarez Quintero Christian Daniel, and Rugeles Joya Willmar Ricardo
Systemic Design for Sustainable Territorial Development
Chiara Battistoni and Silvia Barbero
Holistic Outcome-Based Approach towards Sustainable Design Healthcare: Aligning the system purpose through system visualisation
Cecilia Landa-Avila, Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Rebecca Cain, and Carolina Escobar-Tello
Waste System in Piedmont Region: Disposed of urban and special waste
OCTOBER 2018
Clear: Air quality data as a tool for enabling learning and community action
OCTOBER 2018
Visual explanation of Quality Function Deployment: Strategies to improve the QFD decision-making tool’s usability
OCTOBER 2018
Design for the Taste-Makers: System oriented innovation for improving life of salt pan labourers
OCTOBER 2018
A Case Study on Access to Electricity: Decentralized people-centric energy model for India
OCTOBER 2018
Designing for Comprehensive Healthcare: A ground zero study and system synthesis from India
OCTOBER 2018
Anatomy of Systems: A tool for ethnography of infrastructures
OCTOBER 2018
Interstellar: “To boldly go where no one has gone before”
OCTOBER 2018
HECATE – The Affective City: Mapping the city’s spaces of possibilities
OCTOBER 2018
Comparative Stakeholder Relationships Mapping: Using radial convergence to map relationships + prototype change
OCTOBER 2018
Open Interactive Mapping: Exploring, abstracting, deciding in the relational city
OCTOBER 2018
Flourishing Cybernetics: A biomimetics post-secondary futures narratives
OCTOBER 2018
eHealth: Better health care through technology / chronic disease management
OCTOBER 2018
Rice sector: System and new opportunities
OCTOBER 2018
The Visual Representation of Complexity: Definitions, examples and learning points
OCTOBER 2018
Designing Designers: A critical look at design education
OCTOBER 2018
A Systems views of Organ Donation: Exploring complexity within the Canadian organ donation system
OCTOBER 2018
Copyright Information
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (ISSN 2371-8404) are published annually by the Systemic Design Association, a non-profit scholarly association leading the research and practice of design for complex systems: 3803 Tønsberg, Norway (922 275 696).
Updates
The Systemic Design Association developed individual articles to form the searchable systemic design repository, RSDsymposium.org, in 2019 and updated the RSD7 proceedings page in 2023.
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Chair & Editor
Silvia Barbero
Publisher
Politecnico di Torino
Review Process
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD7 are published online and include papers and presentations, activity sessions, workshops, and systems maps and exhibits.
Papers and presentations were entered into a single-blind peer-review process, meaning reviewers could see the authors’ names but not vice versa. Reviewers considered the quality of the proposed contribution and whether it addressed topics of interest or raised relevant issues in systemic design. The review process provided feedback and possible suggestions for modifications.
The Programme Committee reviewed and assessed workshops, activities, and systems maps and exhibits with input from the Scientific Committee.
Related publications
The Book of Abstracts (ISBN 978-88-85745-24-7) is a complete overview containing the long abstracts provided by the keynotes, the plenary speakers, the workshops’ tutors and all the authors selected
Proceedings (ISSN 2371-8404) is the orginal collection of the working papers provided by about two-thirds of the authors. These papers were selected to be improved in a possible scientific article published by one of our scientific partner journals be improved in a possible article in our scientific partner journals (She Ji, FORMakademisk, Strategic Design Research Journal).
The catalogue of the exhibition Visualizing Complex Systems (ISBN 978-88-85745-22-3) contains the selected abstracts, the gigamaps and other visual materials shown by the authors during the conference.
As of October 2018
