SDAJOURNAL
Contexts–The Systemic Design Journal is an open-access, peer-reviewed research journal supported by members of the Systemic Design Association. It is the first journal dedicated to scholarly reporting and research studies in the interdisciplinary field of systemic design. Authors are invited to submit papers at any time.
SDACommunity
The Systemic Design Association provides an international community home for the wide range of designers and scholars leading emerging practices, design-led systems research, and advanced design methods evolving from systems thinking and design. Membership shows your support for the movement toward systemic design. Join to be a part of the growing SDA community.
SDACommunity
The Systemic Design Association provides an international community home for the wide range of designers and scholars leading emerging practices, design-led systems research, and advanced design methods evolving from systems thinking and design. Membership shows your support for the movement toward systemic design. Join to be a part of the growing SDA community.
SDAPractice
Systemic design has moved toward pragmatic practice. By sharing methods and cases through the annual RSD symposia, practitioners are building a common understanding. SDA creates opportunities for dialogue that contribute to guiding principles for systemic design practice.
SDAPractice
Systemic design has moved toward pragmatic practice. By sharing methods and cases through the annual RSD symposia, practitioners are building a common understanding. SDA creates opportunities for dialogue that contribute to guiding principles for systemic design practice.
SDATheory
The SDA was formed to convene educators, practitioners, and researchers to co-evolve an interdisciplinary field over the long term. The field emerging as systemic design has jumped ahead to engage societal issues now recognised as ever more important for designers to address, ranging from design for health and well-being, quality of life, socioeconomics, urbanization, policy design, and cultural development.
SDATheory
The SDA was formed to convene educators, practitioners, and researchers to co-evolve an interdisciplinary field over the long term. The field emerging as systemic design has jumped ahead to engage societal issues now recognised as ever more important for designers to address, ranging from design for health and well-being, quality of life, socioeconomics, urbanization, policy design, and cultural development.
SDAPublications
For most of a decade the RSD Symposium has yielded a rich trove of new design research in this developing field. RSD authors have published studies in partner journals and edited volumes, but now with the announcement of the Journal of the SDA, a home discipline source for publication is launched. At RSD10 two new books were announced by Birger Sevaldson and Peter Jones.
SDAPUBLICATIONS
For most of a decade the RSD Symposium has yielded a rich trove of new design research in this developing field. RSD authors have published studies in partner journals and edited volumes, but now with the announcement of the Journal of the SDA, a home discipline source for publication is launched. At RSD10 two new books were announced by Birger Sevaldson and Peter Jones.
Annual Symposium
RELATING SYSTEMS THINKING AND DESIGN
The RSD symposia have produced a series of publications as proceedings and journal articles beginning with RSD2 in 2013. Each symposium draws new studies, theoretical work and practices from across many disciplines contributing to complex design issues, social systems and complex policy, socioecological sustainability, critical cultural and development perspectives, and emerging practices and methodology. The first RSD Symposium was held in 2012 as a two-day seminar organized by Birger Sevaldson and Marit Helgesen at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Since then, a symposium has been held each year, hosted in five different countries: Oslo, Norway, Banff and Toronto, Canada, Torino, Italy, Chicago, US, and Ahmedabad, India. This year RSD11 was hosted by the University of Brighton, UK.
A scientific review committee for each RSD symposia is organized by the co-chairs of each conference, with continuity across symposia and publications provided by past chairs and SDA board members. Over 930 symposia presentations and papers are available on RSDsymposium.org—a robust, searchable repository for leading thinking on systemic design.