Possibilities and practices of systemic design: Questions for the next decade of Relating Systems Thinking and Design

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Abstract

As Relating Systems Thinking and Design moves into its second decade, it is possible to question systemic design’s emerging shape. RSD1 through RSD10 have established systemic design as a field with growing mainstream recognition. However, such successes carry the risk that those things that are valuable and different in systemic design can become lost, simplified, and conventionalised. Drawing on Birger Sevaldson’s framing of systemic design as a field of possibilities, we draw attention to systemic design’s own boundary judgements and their importance in maintaining and developing the field’s pluralism and criticality. We conclude with questions that we see as crucial for systemic design: What are the possibilities and practices of systemic design? And what should they be?
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design
Number of pages8
VolumeRSD11
Publication statusPublished - 18 Apr 2023
EventRelating Systems Thinking and Design: Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design - University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 Oct 202216 Oct 2022
https://rsdsymposium.org/category/rsd11-program/

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ISSN (Electronic)2371-8404

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ConferenceRelating Systems Thinking and Design: Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design
Abbreviated titleRSD11
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBrighton
Period13/10/2216/10/22
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