

Marie Davidová – SDA board member, architect, and research group leader at the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC (University of Stuttgart) – has convened an RSD11 panel on Cultural Environments with More-than-Human Perspective.
Discussants are:
Susannah Dickinson – architect and associate professor (University of Arizona) with a focus on multi-scalar biomimetics and complexity theory
Liss C. Werner – strategy consultant, architect, and professor with cybernetics+architecture research focus
Shany Barath – architect and director of the D.DLab (Disrupt. Design) for applicable design research (Israel Institute of Technology)
It's sure to be a fascinating discussion.
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2-Presentation and dialogue at RSD Symposium
3-RSD proceedings paper
4-Development for other conferences
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6-Refereed publication of research in Contexts – The Systemic Design Journal
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