FOR YOUR ADVENTURE TO OSLO! - Systemic Design · Relating Systems Thinking Design Velkommen! rsd RSD6 is almost here! We are so excited to welcome you back to Oslo for the sixth Relating

...FOR YOUR ADVENTURE TO OSLO!

Relating Systems Thinking &Design

rsdOslo School of Architecture and Design

October 18-20, 2017

Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together

JW EDY - CITY OF CHRISTIANIA - 1800

Relating Systems Thinking &Design

rsdVelkommen!RSD6 is almost here! We are so excited to welcome you back to Oslo for the sixth Relating Systems Thinking and Design symposium. Our theme this year - Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together - seems incredibly pertinent, and we look forward to a lively and critical discussion on how systems thinking and design can contribute to positve change.

Below you will find the program for this year’s symposium. Take a look over the talks and keynotes, and get ready for an engaging 3 days!

Pack for a Nordic Autumn! Oslo can be beautiful in the fall, with sunny days and fall colours, but it can also be cold and rainy. Expect wet weather and temperatures from 3°-12° C.

As is becoming tradition, don’t forget to pack your favorourite drink from home to share at the party and world bar on Thursday!

Oslo’s airport is located outside of the city - the fastest ant easiest way downtown is to take the Flytoget train to Oslo Central Station. Tickets are available online or from machines at the airport.

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We hope to follow your adventures and the discussions on social media using the hashtag #RSD6. Stay connected, share your insights, and keep the discussion going!

From the Central Station you can explore the city on foot, or take Ruter - Oslo’s public transit system of trams, buses and subways. Tickets for Ruter can be purchased from their app, or from convenience stores and Ruter locations at the central station.

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design is located at Maridalsveien 29, 0175, Oslo, and will be your home for most of the symposium.

The school is accessible on the 54 (Kjelsås) and 34 (Tåsen) bus routes from the Central Station (Jernbanetorget). The school’s stop is called Telthusbakken

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Relating Systems Thinking &Design

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8:00 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Opening Welcome - Birger Sevaldson

9:30 Keynote Lecture - Richard BuchananDialectic and Inquiry in Design: Understanding Surroundings and Systems, Designing Environments

10:45 Coffee Break

Democracy, Participation & Design Public Sector & Policy Design Theory & Philosophy Economy & Systemic Design

11:00 David Kahane and Alex Ryan. Designing more democratically, deliberating more systemically: A conversation between Systemic Design and Democratic Deliberation

Kristin Støren Wigum. Designing with municipalities – democracy in practice?

Dino Karabeg and Fredrik Refsli. The Paradigm Strategy

Uttishta Varanasi, Deergha Joshi, Akshay Yadav, Kamana Marwah, Aparajita Tiwari and Praveen Nahar. The Design of Design

11:30 Natalija Fisher and Jenny Whyte.Nova Agora: How an online platform deconstructs policy disputes to inform deliberative democracy

Bridget Malcolm. Introducing systemic design to support an Australian Government regulatory agency address complex problems

Piotr Michura and Stan Ruecker. Design as production of presence - systemic approach to re-designing novelty

Franco Fassio, Nadia Tecco. Circular Economy for Food - A systemic interpretation of the circular economy through the holistic view of the gastronomic sciences.

12:00 Niloufar Gharavi. Design With/For Now

Manuela Aguirre, Janey Ro, Paulina Buvinic and Katalina Papic. Co-designing cultures within public organizational systems

Evan Barba. Cognitive Point-of-View in Recursive Design

Joanna Boehnert. Designing the Ecocene: Mapping the Political Economy of Design

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Keynote Lecture - John EhrenfeldFlourishing Lives in Another World

14:30 Plenary Lecture - Praveen Nahar In Memory of Ranjan: The NID approach to Systemic Design

15:00 Coffee Break

Democracy, Participation & Design Flourishing Methods & Methodology Public Sector & Social Services

15:30 Giada Pezzi, Marco D’Urzo and Cristian Campagnaro. Systemic design and social marginalization - Mapping and assessment of projects for the empowerment of people experiencing social exclusion

Jyotish Sonowal and Peter Jones.Reconceiving the Hospital as a Business for Flourishing

Juan de La Rosa and Karolina Kohler. Prototyping as a resource to investigate future states of the system

Benedicte Wildhagen and Sissel Kristin Hoel.Mind the gap! A Norwegian Trial Incentive Program to stimulate government agencies management resources

16:00 Marie Lena Heidingsfelder, Florian Schütz and Martina Schraudner. Who participates in participatory research and innovation?

Marion Real and Iban Lizarralde. Research action applied to the design of a flourishing community dedicated to sustainable fashion in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region

Brent Wellsch, Roya Damabi, Ben Weinlick and Aleeya Velji.Capacity Building Through Community Building: The Story of the Systemic Design eXchange

Heidi Dolven and Adrian Paulsen.Finding the flex in complex public sector systems. Co-designing for services through systemic interventions

16:30 Michael Arnold Mages.Designing for Civic Conversations

Sharon Matthias and Jess McMullin.Systemic Maturity Models and Multiorganization collaborations: the ACMHI Mentally Healthy Campus Maturity Model

Hilde Opoku and Kristin Støren Wigum.Storytelling as a driver for policy developments

Lyudmila Petrova and Cristian Campagnaro.Design for social change: on new practices and organization models that foster knowledge transfers from design sector elsewhere.

17:30 Waterhole Gathering - Fyrhuset

19:00 Halogen Welcome Party - with separate ticket

WednedayOctober 18

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rsdThursday8:00 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Keynote Lecture - Sabine JungingerSystemic Design Approaches in the Public Sector: Are we ready?

9:30 Plenary Lecture - Onny Eikhaug & Tom VavikDesign For All

10:45 Coffee Break

Urbanism Public Sector & Social Services Methods & Methodology Environment & Sustainability

11:00 Idil Gaziulusoy and Chris Ryan Imagining Transitions: Designing a Visioning Process for Systemic Urban Sustainability Futures

Surya Teja Bachu, Aravind Ratheesh, Bharat Kashyap, Julia Andreyyeva and Praveen Nahar. Design for The Other Side: Prison Reforms through building resilience.

Wouter Kersten, Jan Carel Diehl and Jo van EngelenPutting the horse in front of the wagon: how a multicontextual design space successfully addresses complex challenges

Helén Marton, Andrea CuestaUnlocking Barriers to Sustainable Food Procurement inFinland: a Case Study

11:30 Jeremy Bowes, Manpreet Juneja, Carl Skelton, Sara Diamond, Marcus Gordon, Cody Dunne, Davidson Zheng, Steve Szigeti and Michael CarnevaleVisualizing the Sociotechnical System as an UrbanDemocratic Resource; the iCity case study

John Darzentas, Helen Petrie and Jenny Darzentas. Systems Thinking based Design intervention forSupporting Healthy Ageing / Ageing in Place.

Andres Pineda, Ulrik Jørgensen and Erik Hagelskjær LauridsenSustainable System Design

Paul Emmerson and Robert Young. Design as Civics: A citizens’ practical philosophyfor making wise decisions that ‘aim’ for the ‘good life’ in ourunsustainable era

12:00 Christopher Pearsell-RossFuture Fest: a design concept for deliberative engagement in the urban planning process

Sharon Matthias Wellness, Flourishing Societies and “Over the Horizon” Innovation of Policy and Policy Implementation

Mieke van der Bijl-BrouwerThe power of trust and motivation in a designing social system

Maulshree‘The Design Ecosystem’ - A systemic view towards design and society, in the Indian context

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Keynote Lecture - Karl Otto EllefsenThe Imprints of the Fisheries on Land - the dynamics and adaptions of a Norwegian fishing village.

14:30 Plenary Lecture - Kees DorstDesign Beyond Design

15:00 Coffee Break

Architecture & Urban Ecologies Pedagogy & Education Methods & Methodology Systemic Design Cases

15:30 Søren Sørensen (invited lecture) Towards Embedded Architectures: Informed Nonstandard andInformation-based Design

Birger Sevaldson and Linda Blaasvær Teaching Design for Democracy

Dario Toso. Systemic Design Approach on Water Management

Maja van der Velden. Design for living in the doughnut: the case

16:00 Matteo Lomaglio.Encoded ecologies of the Venetian lagoon: A multi-scalar datadriven computational approach for dynamic environments

Corina Angheloiu, Laura Winn and Anna Birney. The School of System Change: Designing a learning system as a system change endeavor

Ana Luisa Cavalcante and Francisco Fialho.Systemic map to revitalizing local knowledge in autochthonescommunities

Jenny Darzentas, Helen Petrie, John Darzentas Employing Service Design and Systems Thinking Approaches as tools to support collaboration across a multi-stakeholder initiative: the responsible food consumption exemplar

16:30 Jeffrey Chan and Ye Zhang A Systems Framework for Designing of Urban Commons and Sharing Practice: Three Case Studies in Singapore

Eunki Chung. Using Giga Mapping in Systems-Oriented Design Education

Remko van der LugtOpen mind an open heart: Two approaches for exploring thedynamics in stakeholder networks in complex co-design projects.

Marie Davidová and Kateřina ZímováCOLridor at Zvonařka: Co-Design and Co-Living for Sustainable Futures

17:00 Christos Chantzaras Architecture as Systems Design & Innovation Design Discipline

Patrice Ceccarini Systemic Design Master Development

Francis Carter, Silvia Mata-Marin, Dimeji Onafuwa, Ahmed Ansari and Dan LocktonChanging behavior of the systems we’re in: Designing for transitions in Environment, Economy, and Democracy

Tobias LutheCodesigning a real-world laboratory for systemic design in the Italian Alps: how complexity shapes the process.

17:30 AHO Conference Party & World Bar

18:15 Panel: John Ehrenfeld, Antony Upward, Peter Jones and Sharon MatthiasThe Possibility for Flourishing: A planetary movement connecting Everybody to Everything.

19:15 The Party Continues...

October 19

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rsdFriday

8:00 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Keynote Lecture - Michael HenselRights to Ground: Human and Non-human Rights, Integrated Design and Embedded Architecture

9:30 Plenary Lecture - Ben SweetingCybernetics, virtue ethics and design.

10:45 Coffee Break

Urbanism Public Sector & Social Services Methods & Methodology

11:00 Adrienne Pacini and Helen Kerr. Housing Horizons: Models for Real Estate and Community Investment

Amina Pereno.Systemic design towards user-centered sustainability in medical treatments

Andreas Wettre and Birger Sevaldson. Teaching Team Work in Systems Oriented Design

11:30 Jotte I.J.C. de Koning, Emma Puerari, Ingrid J. Mulder & Derk A. Loorbach. Landscape of Emerging City Makers: the case of Rotterdam

Karianne Rygh.Supporting co-design in complex healthcare systems through the affordances and metaphors of tangible tools

Francesca Ostuzzi, Walter Dejonghe and Jan Detand. Openended Design as Second-order Design. A case study of teaching Cybernetics and System Thinking to Industrial Design students.

12:00 Nihal Halimeh, Mahmoud Halimeh and Helen Avery. Crafting futures in a Lebanese refugee camp: the Burj el Barajneh Souk

Denise Philpott, Laura Halleran, Sonia Tagari and Windemere Jarvis.The A.R.T. of the Waiting Game: Navigating Assisted Reproduction in Ontario, Canada

Adrian Paulsen and Manuela Aguirre. Mapping the invisible: Co-Designing with taboos and illegal systems as systemic design materials

12:30 Lunch

13:15 Keynote Lecture - Lucy KimbellFrom Transformation Design to Translation Design

14:30 Plenary Lecture - Joanna BoehnertThe Visual Representation of Complex Systems

15:00 Coffee Break

15:15 Closing Lecture - Alex Ryan & Peter Jones

15:45 Closing Concert - Kajsa Sogn Balto

16:00 Presentation of RSD7 Torino (2018) - Amina Pereno

16:30 DOGA farewell party

October 20

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rsdKeynotesMichael HenselRights to Ground: Human and Non-human RightsIntegrated Design and Embedded Architectures

Due to current circumstances discussions focus again on questions of and challenges to ba-sic rights, such as right of expression, privacy, data and information, design (as it becomes increasingly expensive commodity), and so on. However, one of the most basic questions re-mains relatively unaddressed, namely the right to ground. Throughout human history under-standings existed that governed the temporary appropriation of private ground, such as the right to roam and the Scandinavian everyman’s right. The latter is anchored in various ways in the Scandinavian context, ranging from constitutional to customary rights, etc. In the con-text of increasing urbanisation, landgrab, disapprerance of public space in large parts of the world, new walls between countries and potential fortification of parts of Europe, one may ask what the immediate future of access to ground will be. The presentation and paper will focus on a systemic and design approach to the question of the rights to ground, based on

existing and projected arrangements. Furthermore urban, landscape and architectural design implications will be discussed and the scope will expanded to non-human rights to ground.

Sabine JungingerSystemic Design Approaches in the Public Sector: Are we ready?

The complexities of designing are well known to policy makers who develop policies and public managers who implement policies through public services. So overwhelming is the intricate web of laws, rules, and regulations in a highly hierarchical and political landscape that those working under intense time pressure rarely get time to reflect on their design approaches. With the advent of new global and regional challenges that further increase the complex nature of their task, the principles, practices, processes and methods of design employed in the public sector are moving to centre stage in the effort to arrive at innovative and desirable outcomes. In this talk, I I discuss some of the pitfalls of designing in the public sector and point out why the shift in designerly thinking and doing in the service of public sector innovation presents a challenge for the field of design.

Lucy KimbellFrom Transformation Design to Translation Design

All designing is already about systems, even if the object-focus of traditional design practic-es has obscured this. With recent developments in the field such as service design, design for social innovation and design for policy, the need for designers to engage more seriously with the systemic nature of designing is acute. This talk will explore the issues arising when contemporary designerly approaches attempt to address systemic challenges. While such approaches offer some potential benefits, they also bring with then assumptions and elisions which are worrying. A shift to designing for translations between worlds, rather than transfor-mations of worlds, may help address these weaknesses.

John EhrenfeldFlourishing Lives in Another World

The modernist bundle of beliefs and norms, which has powered Western societies for centu-ries, has begun to misfire badly in both the human and natural domains. “Sustainability” is not the answer. To return to a positive trajectory, the critical first move is to choose flourish-ing as the normative design objective for artefacts and institutions. Flourishing, as an exis-tential feature of living systems, is a valid indicator of achievement of human and non-human potential, as contrasted to current economic and psychological metrics. This choice, alone, is insufficient; it must be accompanied by a radical shift in foundational cultural beliefs, replacing the most basic modern ones: the Cartesian, mechanistic world and the Smithian self-interested human being. The historic derivation of these two quasi-facts would not pass muster by today’s standards. In their place, designers need to acknowledge and embody 1) the complexity of social and large-scale technological systems and 2) the inherent caring

behavior of humans. Pragmatic epistemological and design methods are necessary to capture the fundamentally unpredict-able nature of the highly interconnected, non-linear, real (not theoretical) world. I will present arguments for the assertions I have just made.

Karl Otto EllefsenThe imprints of the fisheries on land – the dynamics and adaptions of a Norwegian fishing village.

Small towns and villages have in most parts of Europe, been developed through different kinds of planning strategies, headed by municipalities and governmental institutions. The intention – at least in Northern Europe with a strong social-democratic tradition and rudiments of planned economy – was that these strategies should be based on comprehensive knowledge collection. In the neo-liberal economy this way of working is scaled down and substituted by private and project oriented initiatives. Myre is a fishing village in the Northern part of Norway, that the author has followed for 50 years, and investigated by discussing transforming morphologies. The place mirrors changes in the costal fisheries, in the industries and in regional policies. One of the reasons why this place at the moment is the most successful fishing harbor in the North, is the local culture´s ability to adapt to changes in fisheries and production. At the same time Myre illustrates basic challenges in Norwegian economy and settlement structure: the question

of ownership to resources, the concept of “place” in a changing rural economy, and global forces versus local needs. What are the potentials of introducing Systemic design methodologies offer in engaging with problems related to “place”, and what are the limits of systemic design confronting conflict of interests and genuine political challenges?

Richard BuchananDialectic and Inquiry in Design: Understanding Surroundings and Systems, Designing Environments

Dialectic and Inquiry are two well-established strategies of design practice as well as design theory and research. Dialectic is the art of finding and interpreting systems in the relation-ships and interrelationships of our surroundings. In contrast, inquiry is the art of transform-ing surroundings into environments for human thought and action. The intersection of these two arts is the theme of this presentation. To make the theme concrete, I will focus on John Dewey’s Democracy and Education, a book that is well-known in the context of progressive education. It has influenced all levels of education in places as different as the United States and China and across many disciplines. It is the foundation text of education as inquiry, encouraging creative thinking in the study of what is known and what is unknown. In the context of this presentation, however, the argument of Dewey’s book will be explored as a rhetorical inquiry into society and the role of design in encouraging new social and cultural

practices. In the course of my presentation, I will discuss different kinds of systems and how design contributes to the in-vention and discovery of new systems. The intersection of dialectic and inquiry is fertile ground for exploring new dimen-sions of design practice and theory in the complexity of contemporary life.