Tham, Mathilda (2022) Falling in Love with Complex Systems. In: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD11, 3-16 Oct 2022, Brighton, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

This talk explores how we can design capacities for working as change agents from within complex systems. This includes how we can love and not be scared of systems, how we can collaborate across diverse communities of knowledge and practice—and how we can make language that works as bridges instead of fences. Tham describes how understanding design as learning, languaging and governance (after Fletcher and Tham, 2019) can support distributed leadership, agency and new imagination.

The talk draws on transdisciplinary and co-creative research in the contexts of the global fashion sector, regional housing, an ageing society, caring for forests, as well as design education for change agents. This work is informed by feminist, decolonial, post-growth perspectives, systems thinking and action research, as well as sea swimming, playing with food, talking with ants and singing in the rain.

Item Type:	Conference/Workshop Item (Keynote)
Divisions:	Faculty of Design
Related URLs:	https://vimeo.com/800988008
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2024 16:45
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2024 16:46
URI:	https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4206

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