RSD8: Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium
Date and time
Location
IIT Institute of Design
3137 South Federal Street Chicago, IL 60616Refund Policy
Description
Systems Change for Governance
Join us for RSD8, the eighth annual symposium of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD) of the Systemic Design Association (SDA). This year’s three day event will take place in Chicago, IL at IIT Institute of Design’s new home, the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship.
With returning colleagues and new friends, we'll spend 3 days explore cutting edge methods and design practices for systems change, interdisciplinary research, and real-world contexts where organizational behavior, social entrepreneurship, policymaking, and design are already colliding. Workshops and activity groups bring new tools and methodologies to evolve our individual and collective points of view about leadership and transformative practices—for complex challenges—in design collaboration.
If you can’t attend all three days, tickets are available for just Day Two, where you can take in keynote speakers, participate in the Charles Owen Tribute and Reception, and visit the systems maps and prototypes in the Community Gallery.
For more information on RSD8 visit www.rsd8.org/program
Become a member of the Systemic Design Association (SDA). For more info visit: https://systemic-design.net/become-a-member/
Organized by
At the Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech, we look at the world in new ways to create the change we hope to see in it.
Since our founding by Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy in 1937, we’ve continually turned design into a powerful tool anyone can use to transform the systems that shape our lives—from cities, education, and finance to food, healthcare, and technology.
We’re the only US design school devoted completely to graduate students, and the first to offer a PhD. Uniting science and rigor with creativity and rapid iteration, we’re recognized around the globe as pioneers in human-centered design, systems design, and other methods that apply design to the real world.
It’s through these unique approaches that students, communities, and corporations learn to observe the systems they’re surrounded by—and envision the new worlds they can build from them.
Here, learners and leaders discover what design makes possible. It enables us to adapt with the speed, scale, and complexity of life. To anticipate change and the impact of our actions. And, most importantly, to imagine—then create—brighter futures for us all.
Learn more about ID at id.iit.edu.