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Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design: Questions for the next decade of Relating Systems Thinking and Design

Sweeting, Ben and Sutherland, Sally (2022) Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design: Questions for the next decade of Relating Systems Thinking and Design. In: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD11, 3-16 Oct 2022, Brighton, United Kingdom.

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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?

Item Type: Conference/Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Design, boundary critique, cybernetics, gigamapping, systems thinking, transdisciplinarity
Divisions: Faculty of Design
Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2024 14:37
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2024 14:37
URI: https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4203

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