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Abstract
What is Systemic Design? The emerging field or "sphere" Systemic Design (SD) is not a discipline but a post-discipline - a hybrid combination of science, design, and systems thinking-sensing, a set of challenge-based navigation processes, techniques, and cultures. In Systemic Design, we ask questions to enact complexity through reflexive processes, applying various types of methodologies.
Objective
We understand the origins and the current advances in the field of Systemic Design (SD), the SD communities, and how they relate to Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS). We build our understanding of how to combine quantitative scientific methods such as social network analysis, life cycle assessment, or land use mapping by geospatial data, applying AI consciously; qualitative scientific methods such as interviews or design workshops; design science and designerly methods like visual dialogue or systems narratives, with embodied practices specific to enact the individual setting, such as the didactic Systemic Cycles, or forms of deep listening. We formulate and reflect course-guiding questions, beginning a self-reflective meta-aware learning process in relation to one’s personal Quest. Through all modules, the course integrates three high-level domains of learning competencies—cognitive (knowledge-based), affective (emotion-based), and psychomotor (action-based). In other words, the course integrates science and engineering with designerly techniques and approaches through systems thinking and sensing, building metacognition as of self- and process-awareness, relating these through embodied practices to place-specific real-world challenges in complex systems, accompanying the learning process with an inner development lens — interconnected with the individual Quest projects of the participants. The rapidly developing applications of AI with positive and potentially critical impacts and side effects are intrinsic part of the learning goals, as is the integration of “warm” data, such as intuition. The learning objective assessment starts with the preceding MOOC and its final multiple-choice quiz. To pass the MOOC, 70 percent of the questions must be answered correctly across all modules. During the CAS, active attendance in the live sessions with experts is required for each module. In addition, the Quest’s progress is monitored continuously in the peer-learning process and through individual discussions with the lecturers. Students are asked to contribute at least once per week during the course to the DRRS virtual community on Mighty Networks with internal-public sharing, commenting, or liking. The final learning and progress assessment step is submitting a Quest delivery, which - through all three DRRS CAS’ - builds the base for the Master design thesis, for those taking the full MAS in Regenerative Systems program.
Content
The origins and the current advances in the field of Systemic Design (SD) are explored. What are SD principles, what are SD toolkits? What is the Systemic Design Association, and what are the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD) symposia? How does SD relate to Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS)? What is design science, and what is design practice? We build our understanding of how to combine quantitative scientific methods such as social network analysis, life cycle assessment, or land use mapping by geospatial data and employ AI with a critical-conscious perspective; we teach qualitative scientific methods such as interviews or surveys; we learn design science and designerly methods like visual dialogue or systems narratives; we experience embodied practices specific to enact the individual setting, such as the didactic Systemic Cycles, or forms of deep listening. We formulate and reflect course-guiding questions, such as how do we enact uncertainty immanent in complex systems? How do we navigate between science, design, and practice for intervening desired change? What is a conscious application of AI for regeneration? How do we curate inner practices for building holistic resilience of social-ecological systems? How does systems sensing relate to systemic innovation? How does Systemic Design spur regeneration? And how can all such help us navigate, guide along identified challenges toward desired resilience and regeneration?
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- WBZ
- Frequency
- Every two years
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Registration & Places
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| lecture with exercise |
Module 3: Origins and Advances in Systemic Design
Does not take place this semester.
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No time listed | 30 h semesterly |
Offered In
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CAS in Regenerative Systems: Systemic Design (Wird nur im Herbstsemester angeboten (2-jährlich).)