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| Systemic Design Association | July 15, 2024 |
| RSD13 registration is open |
| Keeping with the rivers of conversations metaphor, RSD13 is overflowing with contributions to systemic design that promise to deepen your research, writing, and practice. The journey has three parts: tributaries, a channel, and streams. You can explore RSD13-ONLINE tributaries, dive into the RSD13-OSLO channel, or combine all three within the context of the reflective experience of RSD13-Nordmarka Forest. |
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| RSD13 tickets |
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| Did someone say workshops at OsloMet? |
| Yes, it’s true! Tore Gulden and Frederick Steier are chairing three full days of in-person workshops at OsloMet. RSD13-OSLO ticket holders can kick off their in-person experience on the weekend and Monday before the AHO sessions. We are in the process of contacting the organisers of over 20 workshops, so plan to arrive early and enjoy Oslo. These extraordinary systemic design workshops feature a range of interdisciplinary topics: systemic change, systems thinking, collaboration, transformative impact, spatial/contextual considerations, and practical, hands-on experimentation.When: October 19, 20, 21 at OsloMet |
| RSDX is back at RSD13 |
| Chaired by Peter Jones and Ryan Murphy, the robust RSDX six-day agenda consists of workshops, speakers, and panels proposed by the community. RSDX is October 12 to 15 and 19 and 20, and it wraps around three days of scheduled paper talks and presentations on October 16, 17, and 18. The whole programme is online and all under the affordable RSD13-ONLINE ticket. What to expect: There are currently 13 workshops and 13 speakers/panels for RSDX and 64 papers and 37 presentations slated over the three days dedicated to scholarly work.Good to know: The RSD11 workshop series and Mapping Mondays are part of the evolving space for self-organising, peer-led online systemic design events. Proposals can be forwarded by any SDA member. |
| Design Journeys workshop confirmed |
| For everyone who loves Design Journeys—a new workshop!Peter Jones and Kristel Van Ael have organised an RSD13/RSDX workshop, “Design Journeys through Organisations: Systemic design tools for leadership” based on their popular book. |
| The workshop focuses on assessing prototype canvases and gaining working feedback on new tool designs designed to simulate organisational functions.Pre-requisite: Participants should have prior experience with the Systemic Design Toolkit as a pre-requisite—even if self-trained from the book and tools.How to book it: RSD13-ONLINE ticket holders will receive an email announcing workshop sign-ups. Space is limited and first-come first-served. |
| Update on RSD13 reviewing |
| Collectively, reviewers wrote 117,641 words in just five weeks. Comments encompassed critique, encouragement, and advice. It was an extraordinary effort and feedback from authors has been uniformly appreciative.This year’s collaborative, asynchronous peer-review process sets a new bar for engagement in the RSD cycle. It exemplifies the scholars spiral at work, which intends that reviewing supports the evolution of scholarship by providing appropriate points for contribution, peer feedback, and publication, all within the support of a diverse, creative, interdisciplinary community. In prior years, a selected cadre of reviewers was tasked with reviews; RSD12 opened this up, inviting the hub organisers to assign sub-reviewers across their community of interest. This year, longstanding reviewers and people new to reviewing for systemic design joined the group, creating a distributed network of peers, wider diversity, and a reasonable level of requests for each member.While our go-to reviewers, Birger Sevaldson and Peter Jones, pulled us through by covering 10% of the reviews at the second review stage, the distributed reviewers network, made up of 128 people, contributed 90%. There are 296 reviews for 83 papers and 41 presentations, an average of 2.4 reviews per paper. We made our goal of asking for a manageable number of reviews, with a median of 2 requests per person, which kept reviews fresh, comprehensive, and collegial. The average length of comments ranged from 2374 (high) to 13 (low), with a median of 352 and an average of 414 words. |
| Reviewing Reviewing sessions posted |
| The Reviewing Reviewing conversations, held in April, guided some thinking about the RSD13 process. The review process was adjusted based on the guidance from two conversations on reviewing hosted by Ryan Murphy with Peter Jones, Ray Ison, Houda Khayame, Wendy Ross, Ruth Schmidt, and Katelyn Stenger. Reviewers and authors has been very positive about the process. |
| Our resulting decision guidance focused on readiness for publishing and relevance to systemic design rather than acceptance/rejection. Meta-reviews were done on submissions with more than a two-point spread from reviewers, and (for RSDX) we are considering submissions that were not recommended for hidden gems, panellists, interactive sessions, and early career researcher gatherings.Where to find it: Reviewing reviewing session summaries and video are posted on the RSD website and RSD YouTube channel. |
| GUESS WHOSE COMING TO RSD13-OSLO? |
| SDA General Assemblies | AUGUST 5 & SEPT 23 |
| Reminder: The Systemic Design Association is holding two Extraordinary General Assemblies. The meetings are online and open to everyone who is interested in contributing to a discussion of the association’s operations.EGA-1 Changes to the SDA’s Statutes | August 5, 2024EGA-2 SDA Board Elections | September 23, 2024 |
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| Only supporting members (who have made a financial contribution within one year of the EGA) can vote at the SDA General Assemblies. Renew your membership or join SDA. |
| NEWS | ADJACENT COMMUNITIES |
| Did you know Systems Thinking Ontario has met over 100 times? The group meets online and convenes at OCADU in central downtown Toronto, so it’s an excellent opportunity to connect with systemic design colleagues in and around Ontario. Looking back to look forward: The first meeting featured Ralph Glanville’s talk on Cybernetics and Creativity on December 6, 2021. |
| At RSD13/RSDX, Zaid Khan and David Ing discuss the group’s focus on learning from fields/topics/perspectives outside systems thinking to learn more about systems thinking and host a discussion about the traps of field-bounded interactions, how we can draw new insights about systems from untraditional places/fields, and building bridges to new communities.Noted: “Our working definition of systems thinking is: understanding the world by exploring parts and wholes. We do this by simultaneously and iteratively using analysis (what parts does this whole contain) and synthesis (which wholes contain this part).”Where to find it: https://wiki.st-on.org/home |
| POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES | Tecnológico de Monterrey |
| Postdoctoral Researcher for Service Design Research in Health ContextsCurrently, in the School of Architecture, Art and Design, we are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to partner with the Faculty of Excellence and Tec Salud faculty in the design of community health services.Location: Monterrey, MexicoPostdoctoral Researcher in Complex System Visualization (Systemic Design)The School of Architecture, Art and Design is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to conduct collaborative research with the design faculty in visualisation for mapping complex systems. Working with Distinguished Professor Peter Jones, the postdoctoral candidate will collaborate on studies to theorise, refine, and build new concepts in systems visualisation to improve the adoption and understanding of large-scale mapping of complexity for policy proposals, complex strategic missions, and civic and institutional service programs.Location: Tlalpan, Mexico |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | RSD13 REVIEWERS |
| Based on our review statistics, let’s acknowledge colleagues whose reviews went above and beyond with three spirited awards. Drum roll, please! |
| LAST MILE AWARDGetting us through the finish lineBirger Sevaldson, RSD13 ChairPeter Jones,* Contexts—The Systemic Design Journal, Editor in Chief ARTICULATION AWARDHigher than average number of words per reviewThomas J McLeishVictor UdoewaPerin RuttonshaVanessa RodriguesLisa LeungAndrea CattabrigaBrogan OgilvieSergej van MiddendorpTRUE GRIT AWARDMore than three reviewsAndrzej KlimczukMarie Davidová*Abhay VohraMari Suoheimo**Thomas Maiorana*Adeline HvidstenAshley WorobecCarla SediniChiara Battistoni*Goran MaticJiayi YoungRyan Murphy**SDA board member**RSD13 academic committee member |
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