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http://www.systemic-design.net/ 2013/3/15 <[log in to unmask]> > Symposium Website http://www.systemic-design.net > > Emerging Contexts for Systemic Design > > AHO - Oslo School of Architecture & Design Oslo, Norway > 9th-11th October 2013 > > Relating Systems Thinking and Design is a free and open symposium over two > days with a preceeding full day with diverse workshops and a subsequent > special issue in FORMakademisk. We encourage you to submit your abstracts > and to concider joining the workshops. We are interrested in both work in > progress and more developed contributions. > 9th October: Workshops > 1oth - 11th October: Symposium > > Call for abstracts > The emerging renaissance of systems thinking in design responds to the > increasing complexity in all challenges faced by designers and > transdisciplinary innovators. Our worlds have become too complex for linear > and goal-driven management, resulting in hopelessly complicated social, > economic, and political systems. The global demand for sustainability, > democratic economies, and the emerging social arrangements for better > education, employment, and development have become too complex for > conventional thinking. > The interrelationship between systems thinking and design action was the > theme of last years RSD seminar at the Oslo School of Architecture and > Design In re-examining the relationship of systems thinking to design we > believe it possible for systems thinking and design praxis to develop the > foundations for new, interrelated practices. This synergistic relationship > will launch a new generation of systems-oriented thinkers empowered with > the creativity and perspectives of design thinking. As educators and > researchers, we also seek better theoretical foundations and rigor in > design thinking. > We areare interested in proposals that draw from recent case studies from > fieldwork, design inquiry and research, and mixed methods in > systems-oriented design. > Sociotechnical, service, and activity systems are characterized by highly > complex and emergent human-system relationships, and benefit from nonlinear > and creative design practices and engaged research perspectives. Design > practices found effective in fields such as healthcare, governance, > environmental stewardship, organizational management and social change, are > of particular interest for cases and discussion in the conference. > Systemic Design has been suggested as a term for this emerging movement in > design with its multiple expressions including e.g. Systems Oriented > Design, Whole Systems Design, and is closely related to Dialogic Design. > What binds systems related theories and practices together with design > approaches may be the desire to reintroduce systems approaches with design > toward a more effective integrated praxis, becoming more useful to > designers (and stakeholders and clients) than evidenced by past > performance. This implies the reshaping and design of systems approaches > and the related practices so that they are better integrated into design > processes. > We invite you to submit an abstract of maximum 1000 words within the > following themes: > > •New systemic practices in design > •Rethinking systems approaches from a design perspective > •Relating Design Praxis and Systems Thinking > •The role of systemic design when developing design practices in new areas > •Teaching (systemic design or), systems thinking in design. (or design in > systems approaches) > •Relating systems and design theories, conceptually and pragmatically > > Accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a presentation. > > The best presentations will after the symposium be invited by the program > committee to submit a full paper to be published in a planned special issue > in the Norwegian bilingual scientific design research journal FORMakademisk > These papers will go through a blind peer review evaluation process as > normal for this journal. See the journal website for details. > > Symposium Website http://www.systemic-design.net > > Birger Sevaldson (PhD, MNIL) > Professor at Institute of Design > Oslo School of Architecture and Design > Norway > www.birger-sevaldson.no > www.systemsorienteddesign.net > www.ocean-designresearch.net > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> > Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design > Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Carlo Franzato Pesquisador do PPG em Design Escola de Design UNISINOS www.unisinos.br/design Rua Luiz Manoel Gonzaga, 744 - Tręs Figueiras 90470-280 - Porto Alegre (RS) Tel +55. 51. 35911101 Fax +55. 51. 35911204 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------