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RSD9 – Systemic Design for Well-being: From human to humane

Apr 2021 | Proceedings: Editorial, RSD9, RSD9 Program

RSD9 Chair, Praveen Nahar, and Editor, Peter Jones: RSD9 created a place for pause and reflection, but also bold ideas and forward-thinking discussion. The outcome is a collection of over 50 presentations on design outcomes and programs informed by research, real applications, and practices to address problems in the unbounded complexity of social and ecological systems.

National Institute of Design Exhibition

Mar 2021 | Format: Maps & Exhibits, News & Notes, RSD9

A beautiful virtual walk-through of the National Institute of Design campus in Ahmedabad, India.

Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 Symposium

Mar 2021 | Proceedings: Published, RSD9, RSD9 Program

RSD9 Week was hosted by the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. It was held October 9-17, 2020, representing a full week of online paper presentations, workshops, complex visualizations (Gigamaps), panels and conversations.

Designing with Nature: Systems design for the well-being of the Earth community

Oct 2020 | Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD9, RSD9 Program, Topic: Socioecological Design

RSD9 Keynote. Vandana Shiva: Design, like every other discipline over the last few centuries, has been limited by colonialism and anthropocentrism – the assumption that colonising cultures are superior to the colonised, and humans are superior to other species.

No silver bullets. How UNDP learned to embrace systems thinking

Oct 2020 | Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD9, RSD9 Program, Topic: Methods & Methodology

RSD9 Keynote. Giulio Quaggiotto: Accepting that wellbeing and sustainable development are complex challenges means acknowledging the limitations of linear planning and moving away from the allure of designing single-point solutions.

Regaining a new sense of well-being by design

Oct 2020 | Format: Keynote Speakers, RSD9, RSD9 Program, Topic: Health & Well-being

RSD9 Keynote. Harold G. Nelson: The COVID-19 virus has been the catalyst for disruptive pandemic changes around the world. Our norms are being forever changed. Our sense of well-being has been lost. New norms are needed now because a new normal is desired and necessary. It is a perilous game to play if the process of forming new norms is left to unfold by chance rather than intension.

Circularity, Systems Thinking and Sustainability

Oct 2020 | Format: Plenaries & Panels, RSD9, Topic: Economics & Organisations

Prasad Modak: Is the concept of Circular Economy (CE) old wine in a new bottle? Is the canvas of CE really understood?

COLreg: The Collective Regenerative Region

Oct 2020 | Format: Plenaries & Panels, RSD9, Topic: Policy & Governance

Marie Davidová and Kateřina Zímová: The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating former gardening colony of Prague 22 district.

Conversations in Healthcare Service Design

Oct 2020 | Format: Plenaries & Panels, RSD9, Topic: Health & Well-being

Jonathan Romm, Palak Dudani, and Shivani Prakash: To stimulate innovation in systems of healthcare, designers need to become conversational experts.

Decolonizing Futures

Oct 2020 | Format: Plenaries & Panels, RSD9, Topic: Culture & Society

Pupul Bisht: What does the future look like? Who owns/shapes these images of the future? Whose identity, knowledge, needs, and desires are not represented in these futures?

Integrating Selves and Systems through Ritual

Oct 2020 | Format: Plenaries & Panels, RSD9, Topic: Health & Well-being

Arvind Venkataramani and Adam Menter: Co-designed rituals are a way for people to identify and navigate the systems they are embedded in, and to construct or reshape selves to seek well-being.