The RSD Movement | Moment

Peter JonesRSD, Systemic Design

OK, it’s been said—RSD is like a movement. Maybe it is such a moment now. After 15 years of continuous growth and with the creative vitality of hundreds of converging studies and proposals, we might consider that design-engaging-complexity has a social movement quality. OK, it’s been said—RSD is like a movement. Maybe it is such a moment now. After 15 years of continuous growth and with the creative vitality of hundreds of converging studies and proposals, we might consider that design-engaging-complexity has a social movement quality. Wait, I’m not saying systemic design is a movement— at least I see it as a dynamic interdiscipline and practice field. And we do hold the symposium to high levels of academic quality. Yet the creative expression of the methods and learning has spread everywhere with the unrestrained innovation of a movement, with the energy gained from a constant flow of new ideas and …

RSD12 Four Seasons of Systemic Design Evolution

Peter JonesRSD, Strategic Innovation, Systemic Design

RSD12 was the twelfth iteration of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium, and held 12 RSD12 HUBS in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Local onsite symposia hosted by systemic design groups in China, Canada, Colombia, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and the USA. The online RSD program was layered over the local experiences with a sequence of relevant presentations, providing complementary discussions. The first Hub was at UNAL Bogota, co-hosted with the 4th International Design Research congress. Both Tony Fry and Don Norman spoke remotely with bilingual accommodation for the Colombian audience. As there was too much to say at just one talk, I planned four talks for the four hub locations, and presented them in association with the natural cycle of seasons as they move from the “promising emergence” of systemic design in Latin America in Bogota, to the summer heat of practice in Mexico, …

Systemic Design Toolkit

Peter JonesCo-Creation, RSD, Systemic Design

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

Peter JonesRSD, Systemic Design

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 …