
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD8) 2019 Symposium
Chicago, Illinois, US
October 13-15, 2019
Published by: Systemic Design Association
ISSN 2371-8404
Citation: Author. (2019). Article title. In Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD8) 2019 Symposium. IIT Institute of Design, Chicago, October 13-15, 2019.
RSD8 was held at the Kaplan Institute, IIT Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois
Chair: Carlos Teixeira, IIT Institute of Design (ID)
Editorial Team: Peter Jones, Editor, with Jananda Lima, Ana Matic, and Goran Matic, OCAD University
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RSD8 Proceedings
Proceedings are listed in the following order: introduction, keynote speakers, workshops, papers, systems maps.
Design Strategy in Complex Spaces of Innovation
RSD8 Keynote. Carlos Teixeira was the RSD8 Co-Chair. He is the Charles L. Owen Professor in Design at IIT Institute of Design and the faculty director of the UI Action Lab.
Community-Empowered Systems Change
RSD8 Keynote. Chris Rudd: The future of the community depends on ending racism.
Dressed in Wall Street Suits & Algorithmic Math: Assemblages of Complex Predatory Formations
RSD8 Keynote. Columbia Professor and author Saskia Sassen: Detecting what is happening, de-theorizing in order to re-theorize.
Towards the Whole: A tribute to Charles L. Owen
RSD8 Keynote. Charles Bezerra: A tribute to Charles L. Owen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Design where he conducted research and taught until 2010 in the MDes, MDM, and PhD Design graduate programs.
Designing for Systems-Level Change and Transitions Toward More Sustainable Futures
RSD8 Keynote. Terry Irwin: Transitioning entire societies toward more sustainable long-term futures will involve ongoing systems level change over long horizons of time.
Worlds within Worlds: Fostering a Thriving Network in a Flourishing Field
Peter Jones and Birger Sevaldson
Visualizing Systems: Applying Good Practices from the SystemViz Project
OCTOBER 2019
What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Creative Visualization Tools for Ethical Foresight
Sydney Luken, Jonathan Healey, J.R. Osborn, and Evan Barba
DesignShop for Systemic Transformation
Dan Lockton, Lisa Brawley, Manuela Aguirre Ulloa, Matt Prindible, Laura Forlano, Karianne Rygh, John Fass, Katie Herzog, and Bettina Nissen
Designing Sustainable Futures with the Systemic Design Toolkit
Kristel Van Ael, Philippe Vandenbroeck, Alex Ryan, Peter Jones, Andre Nogueira, Sabrina Tarquini and Stefanos Monastiridis
Core Shifts for Emerging Desired Futures: Unpacking the collective unconscious
Jananda Lima and Tieni Meninato
Getting the Whole System into the … Map: Addressing key issues in open social mapping
OCTOBER 2019
A Method to Include System Mapping in Strategic Planning
Alana Boltwood and Fran Quintero Rawlings
Developing Strategic Narratives: Designing Services as Systems
OCTOBER 2019
Informed Empathy: Tool, Practice, System
OCTOBER 2019
Feminist Design: Methodologies for Equity and Inclusion
OCTOBER 2019
Disruption, Innovation, Opportunity: The Power of Circularity within the Commercial Built Environment
OCTOBER 2019
Tangible Thinking: Materializing How We Imagine and Understand Systems, Experiences, and Relationships
Dan Lockton, Lisa Brawley, Manuela Aguirre Ulloa, Matt Prindible, Laura Forlano, Karianne Rygh, John Fass, Katie Herzog, and Bettina Nissen
Probing the Future, Acting Today
OCTOBER 2019
Systems Oriented Design as a Democratic Design Technique
OCTOBER 2019
Designing for Second Life: Systemic Design for Sustainable Packaging in Appliance Manufacturing Industry
OCTOBER 2019
A Systemic District for Sustainable Tourism
Amina Pereno and Silvia Barbero
Resetting the Growth Curve
OCTOBER 2019
Unpacking Gentrification 2.0
OCTOBER 2019
Institutional Literacy and New Institutions and Rules for Integrated Systems of Production
Tom Snow
What is Systemic Design? Practices beyond modeling and analyses
OCTOBER 2019
Co-Designing a Walkable City for the Elderly
OCTOBER 2019
Practice-led Pedagogy for Socio-Technical Transitions
OCTOBER 2019
Modelling Stigmergy: Evolutionary Framework for System Design
OCTOBER 2019
Breathing Walls for Cross-Species Co-Living Adaptation in Built Environment
OCTOBER 2019
Case Study: Designing Difficult Community Conversations for Multiple Stakeholders
OCTOBER 2019
Inclusive Worklife Innovation – Reflections on Problem Framing and Solution Spaces Across Systems
OCTOBER 2019
Hospitals as Anchor Institutions: Eco-Systemic Leadership to Nourish Patient, Community, and Planetary Health
OCTOBER 2019
Reimagining Local News to Fulfill It’s Democratic Function
OCTOBER 2019
Collaborative Foresight for Long-Range Problem Discovery in Complex R&D
OCTOBER 2019
Designing for Systems of Service in NYC Homeless Shelters
OCTOBER 2019
Systemic Design for Democratic Engagement: Where the bottom-up and top-down process meet
Juan de La Rosa, Stan Ruecker, Claudia Grisales, and Carolina Giraldo
Using Systemic Design for the Understanding and Evolving of Organizational Culture
Juan de la Rosa, Leon Paul Hovanesian II, and Karolina Kohler
Potential Therapeutic Effects on Design for Psychological Well-being
OCTOBER 2019
Integrated Policy, Sustainable Development Goals, and New Change and Governance Models: Case Study of the UN’s Joint SDG Fund
OCTOBER 2019
Fractal Market Map
OCTOBER 2019
Systemic Analysis of a Large-scale organization Failure in UK Healthcare
OCTOBER 2019
Developing Systemic Design Tools: The CHRIIS Model
OCTOBER 2019
Designerly Approaches to Shaping Social Structures
OCTOBER 2019
Mapping Productivity, Energy, and Wellbeing
OCTOBER 2019
The Generator project as a paradigm for systemic design
Ben Sweeting
Open Social Mapping: Participatory Modeling of Social Systems
OCTOBER 2019
Outside in: Activation and Impact Through Improved Understanding
OCTOBER 2019
Summary of Mapping and Methodology Discussion
OCTOBER 2019
Paying Attention to Where Attention is Placed in the Rise of System(s) Change(s)
OCTOBER 2019
Towards Impact Design for Public Services
OCTOBER 2019
Anti-Archetypes: Systemic stories of hope
Leah Zaidi
Designing Systems Outcomes as Desirable Side Effects: Reflections from the CMHC Solutions Labs
OCTOBER 2019
Improving Well-being in Universities: A Transdisciplinary Systems Change Approach
OCTOBER 2019
Bridging Silos: A new workshop method for training silo busting
Andreas Wettre, Birger Sevaldson, and Palak Dudani
Design as a Tool for Reformation in the Juvenile Justice System through a Participatory Approach
OCTOBER 2019
When is Systemic Design Regenerative? Fishbowl Dialogue
Dan Lockton, Lisa Brawley, Manuela Aguirre Ulloa, Matt Prindible, Laura Forlano, Karianne Rygh, John Fass, Katie Herzog, and Bettina Nissen
How patients and providers visualise healthcare?
A network analysis approach to map outcome interactions.