We were privileged at OCAD University to visit with Ranulph once or twice a
year over the last few years. Tom Barker, director of the Digital Futures
Initiative and MDes, was a PhD student of Ranulph's at RCA. Tom brought
Ranulph to OCADU to speak on advanced design and topics such as "Being
Creative with Cybernetics." We have a community of practice called Systems
Thinking Ontario and some of us would meet with him for dinner during his
stays in Toronto. He was a gracious human being and was generous with
critique and perspective.
Ranulph was able to accept the keynote invitation and travel to our second
Relating Systems Thinking to Design symposium at AHO this last October. When
he missed the ISSS and ASC conferences in August due to the emergence of
cancers, I was prepared to see him decline the RSD talk of course. We were
very fortunate his travel vigor was intact and he was between treatment
regimes, and was able to travel. His last major lecture was ours at RSD, and
we have an audio recording to share on the symposium website:
http://systemic-design.org with a bit of memorial, and Birger Sevaldson has
a video of the talk in process that should be on the site shortly.
I'm appreciating all the memories of Ranulph being shared on the PhD Design
list - I recall his many brief, piercing, wise exchanges on these
discussions over the years. I wonder what's in the list archive of his that
might reveal some insight into the current discussion?
Peaceful holidays to all as the year winds down,
Peter Jones
PETER JONES, PH.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF DESIGN
T 416 799 8799 @redesign
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