Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) 2018 Symposium

RSD7 Publications

RSD7 publications document six inspiring keynote speakers, three plenary sessions, and 76 papers in downloadable formats.

RSD7 – Challenging Complexity by Systemic Design towards Sustainability

Proceedings: Editorial, RSD7, RSD7 Program

RSD7 Chair & Editor, Silvia Barbero: The RSD7 symposium was held at the Politecnico di Torino, defining an important collaboration among the institutions that founded the Systemic Design Research Network in 2012.

Advanced Design Cultures: A learning system perspective

Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD7, RSD7 Program, Topic: Learning & Education

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

Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD7, RSD7 Program, Topic: Policy & Governance

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

Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD7, RSD7 Program, Topic: Economics & Organisations

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

Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD7, RSD7 Program, Topic: Methods & Methodology

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

Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD7, RSD7 Program, Topic: Socioecological Design

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

Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD7, RSD7 Program, Topic: Socioecological Design

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

Format: Plenaries & Panels, RSD7, Topic: Learning & Education

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

Format: Books & Guides, Format: Plenaries & Panels, Format: Workshops, RSD7, Topic: Methods & Methodology

A toolkit establishes a common understanding and language, enabling dialogue among the actors and other stakeholders, including a diverse designer team.

Practitioner Insights on Systemic Change from the New Plastics Economy Initiative

Format: Plenaries & Panels, Format: Workshops, RSD7, Topic: Economics & Organisations

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

Format: Papers, Format: Workshops, RSD7, Topic: Methods & Methodology

Paper & Workshop. Ben Sweeting

Books & Beers

Format: Books & Guides, News & Notes, RSD7

RSD7 featured relaxed “learning-and-doing time”. At the end of each day, three decompressing “Books and Beers” events were hosted in the close venue of Eataly. Five recently published books were introduced to the audience and discussed in a more informal environment.