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North Stars: Discussing an expanded direction for systemic design

Tobias Luthe, Haley Fitzpatrick, Peter Hayward Jones, and Birger Sevaldson https://rsdsymposium.org/expanded-dir... With the ETH Zürich Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems systemic design module content as an opening presentation, Tobias Luthe convenes “north stars,” first as a round with seasoned discussants to provide commentary and context, then opened to all to share perspectives on the possibilities and obstacles to expanding the direction for systemic design as a navigator of the relational value of scientific, engineering, design, embodied methods, and inner practices. Referencing the Certificate in Advanced Studies in Systemic Design (CAS#3) and its inclusion in the ETH Zürich Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Regenerative Systems, Luthe proposes the emerging field or sphere of systemic design not as a discipline but as a post-discipline—a hybrid combination of science, engineering, design, and embodied practices accompanied by inner processes. The systemic designer navigates real-world challenges in the context of their social environment. Some familiar guiding questions: Why do I need to intervene? When do we need to intervene, and where? What method or practice is needed, and how does this step inform an emerging process? Systemic designers acquire guiding skills of systems thinking-sensing, a set of challenge-based methods, processes, techniques and inner processes. The relational value of different modes of inquiry is to be engaged. Eventually, we grow a meta-skillset of “organic emergence,” defined as the capability to befriend emergence, that is, to feel safe, equipped, skilled, and supported, and to deal with unforeseen challenges and obstacles for (non)intervening in living systems (Figure 1). Therefore, the focus is on navigating the relational practice of methods and building organic emergence. We are designers, systems scientists, organic engineers, intervenors, weavers, nudgers, holistic planners, collaborative architects, and curious practitioners. Systemic design demands that we combine quantitative scientific methods, such as social network analysis, life cycle assessment, or land use mapping using geospatial data, with qualitative scientific methods, such as interviews or design workshops, designerly methods like visual dialogue or systems narratives, and embodied practices specific to enacting the individual setting, such as didactic systemic cycles or forms of deep listening. How do we navigate through emergent, largely un-plannable emergent challenges in a direction of desirable resilience, steering toward designing for regeneration within complex systems? Systemic design necessitates asking questions to enact complexity through reflexive processes that ask how might we? Enact uncertainty, immanent in complex systems Navigate between science, design and practice for intervening in desired change Curate inner processes to build the holistic resilience of social-ecological systems And whether? Systems sensing relates to systemic innovation Systemic design spurs regeneration All this helps us to navigate and guide, along with identified challenges, in the direction of desired resilience and regeneration The illustration below (Figure 1) engages the relational value of methods and practices and a skill set of organic emergence. What does the map surface about the framing of systemic design as a challenge-based navigation process between different types of inquiry?