In this session, led by sLab's Greg Van Alstyne, David Ing, Peter Scott, & Zaid Khan, we invite participants to consider, “Where is systemic design present in our lives?”
The emergence of systemic design as an intentional, scholarly approach and practice co-evolved in the Canadian and global landscape within the Master of Design program in Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI) at OCAD University. Since the program's launch in 2009, we've witnessed a remarkable degree of uptake in the design and innovation communities.
Systemic design can be understood as elusive where it exists locally, and omnipresent in how it permeates throughout. Digging into ‘arcs of impact’, we invite attendees to form facilitated small group conversations to unravel this paradox. We will reflect, explore, discover and share venues for where systemic design is most present in our lives. At RSD14, self-identifying community members can come together to share opportunities for professional development to extend beyond postgraduate studies.
This workshop welcomes current students, alumni with systemic design or “SD-adjacent” degrees, and “accidental” systemic designers who have found themselves drawn in. For example, in our socially constructed world today, we grapple with many social, political, environmental, and economic challenges (and opportunities), from which we can create fundamental questions to explore. As such, we invite you to unconference into the conversation with your ideas, which may include, but are not limited to, bringing a piece of artifact(s) to use as a prop (or tool) to introduce and explore systemic design from your perspective.
This workshop at RSD14 is led by four community members in a project to reinvigorate sLab
View the abstract: https://rsdsymposium.org/where-do-designers-go/
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