The Systemic Design Toolkit was developed by Namahn’s Kristel van Ael and her team for initial workshopping at RSD5 in Toronto. We launched the Toolkit at Relating Systems and Design 7, October 2018, after a year or so of partnering with Phillipe Vandenbroeck from ShiftN, Alex Ryan of MaRS Solutions Lab, and myself with Systemic Design Association. Civilian and educational versions of the Toolkit are now in process and used in training. The Toolkit encompasses the progression of knowledge building over the course of 7 RSD conferences, with the methods tested in workshops and now graduate coursework, at OCADU’s Strategic Foresight and Innovation and at U Antwerp, Belgium. The Systemic Design Toolkit is based on design principles and original systems science foundations. to show how methods cannot replace the evolution of one’s own systems thinking competencies in social and systemic design. I recently presented a brief workshop on the SD …
RSD6 Symposium & Keynotes Announced
Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6 Held this year again at Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) October 18-20, 2017 The accepted keynotes for RSD6 promise an inspiring range of perspectives on the changes to design practice and education emerging from the demands of civilizational turbulence and continuous complexity of our services, systems and societies. RSD6 holds a centre for inquiry into human and ecological flourishing, as relevant to the re-envisioning and redesign of business, policies, organizations and our own methods for design, including those methods for governing ourselves in modern civilization: Lucy Kimbell John Ehrenfeld Toshiko Mori Richard Buchanan Sabine Junginger Karl Otto Ellefsen Following two years in Canada, join us this year in Oslo as RSD returns to its home location for the RSD6 Symposium. Early registration for the RSD6 symposium is now open. Our theme this year encompasses the contexts for flourishing in …