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, to the observation of challenging futures in Canada, to the Winter of huge upheavals in civilization, presented in the final talk at Georgetown.
