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The main mission of systems-oriented design is to build the designer’s own interpretation and implementation of systems thinking so that systems thinking can fully benefit from design thinking and practice and vice versa.
The Visual Representation of Complex Systems: A Typology of Visual Codes for ...EcoLabs
Presentation of Dr. Joanna Boehnert's research for Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6 conference in Oslo, Norway October 20th 2017. This presentation includes results collected in surveys distributed at the conference. This is Step One of a short research project on the visual communication of complex systems.
An agenda for Systemic Design - An emerging research and educational track in systems sciences and design.
Peter Jones talk at ISSS 2014
Movements in Design & Systems Thinking
Education Movements
RSD3 Symposium
Systemic Design Research
Relationship to Systems Community
Systemic Design Principles & Methods ISSS 2014Peter Jones
Research paper presentation at ISSS 2014: Design Research Methods for Systemic Design: Perspectives from Design Education and Practice
The recent development of systemic design as a research-based practice draws on long-held precedents in the system sciences toward representation of complex social and enterprise systems. A precedent article, published as Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social Systems (Jones, 2014) established an axiomatic and epistemological basis for complementary principles shared between design reasoning and systems theory. The current paper aims to establish a basis for identifying shared methods (techne) and action practice (phronesis). Systemic design is distinguished from user-oriented or industrial design practices in terms of its direct relationship to systems theory and explicit adoption of social system design tenets. Systemic design is concerned with higher-order socially-organized systems that encompass multiple subsystems in a complex policy, organizational or product-service context. By integrating systems thinking and its methods, systemic design brings human-centered design to complex, multi-stakeholder service systems as those found in industrial networks, transportation, medicine and healthcare. It adapts from known design competencies - form and process reasoning, social and generative research methods, and sketching and visualization practices - to describe, map, propose and reconfigure complex services and systems.
Invited keynote given at the IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2017) in Wellington, New Zealand, 26 April 2017.
The main mission of systems-oriented design is to build the designer’s own interpretation and implementation of systems thinking so that systems thinking can fully benefit from design thinking and practice and vice versa.
The Visual Representation of Complex Systems: A Typology of Visual Codes for ...EcoLabs
Presentation of Dr. Joanna Boehnert's research for Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN) at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6 conference in Oslo, Norway October 20th 2017. This presentation includes results collected in surveys distributed at the conference. This is Step One of a short research project on the visual communication of complex systems.
An agenda for Systemic Design - An emerging research and educational track in systems sciences and design.
Peter Jones talk at ISSS 2014
Movements in Design & Systems Thinking
Education Movements
RSD3 Symposium
Systemic Design Research
Relationship to Systems Community
Systemic Design Principles & Methods ISSS 2014Peter Jones
Research paper presentation at ISSS 2014: Design Research Methods for Systemic Design: Perspectives from Design Education and Practice
The recent development of systemic design as a research-based practice draws on long-held precedents in the system sciences toward representation of complex social and enterprise systems. A precedent article, published as Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social Systems (Jones, 2014) established an axiomatic and epistemological basis for complementary principles shared between design reasoning and systems theory. The current paper aims to establish a basis for identifying shared methods (techne) and action practice (phronesis). Systemic design is distinguished from user-oriented or industrial design practices in terms of its direct relationship to systems theory and explicit adoption of social system design tenets. Systemic design is concerned with higher-order socially-organized systems that encompass multiple subsystems in a complex policy, organizational or product-service context. By integrating systems thinking and its methods, systemic design brings human-centered design to complex, multi-stakeholder service systems as those found in industrial networks, transportation, medicine and healthcare. It adapts from known design competencies - form and process reasoning, social and generative research methods, and sketching and visualization practices - to describe, map, propose and reconfigure complex services and systems.
Invited keynote given at the IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2017) in Wellington, New Zealand, 26 April 2017.
Design thinking unpacked: an evolutionary algorithm?J. M. Korhonen
A paper* presented at EAD 2009 conference in Aberdeen, trying to explain why "design thinking" works and what may be its limits. This is an interesting line of research which may even produce some testable hypotheses in the future, and it has immediate practical implications for product development managers.
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* Korhonen, J. M. & Hassi, L. (2009). Design Thinking Unpacked: An Evolutionary Algorithm. In Proceedings of the Eight European Academy of Design International Conference, 261-265. Aberdeen. .
Sibilla 2017 a meaningful mapping approach for the complex designmsibilla
Developing the ability to manage complexity has become an essential element for the training of designers. In such a context, complexity mainly arises from the need to integrate knowledge and expertise. The project is grounded in a hypothesis of systematizing Meaningful Learning Activities with computer applications dedicated to the elaboration of cognitive maps, in order to develop the ability to manage the complexity of high-interaction flows which can be found in the project of energy efficiency in historic buildings. This paper focuses on two experimental courses, with the aim to assess the formative approach adopted. The results highlight an innovative procedure and a tool helpful both to trainers and to learners to assess and direct the quality of the complex design process.
Structural Building and Cost Optimization with Different Floor Systemijtsrd
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Design as adaptation
1. Design as Adaptation
Irem Tekogul
itekogul@id.iit.edu
Illinois Institute of Technology - Institute of Design
Carlos Teixeira, Ph.D. Primary advisor
Laura Forlano, Ph.D. Secondary advisor
2. Extension
Comprehension
Expansion of design
Design draws upon a multiplicity of
knowledge domains situated within
entangled technical, economic and
social systems.
Design as a term has grown in
‘comprehension’ and ‘extension’
(Latour, 2008) as a result of
operating within the highly complex
entangled systems.
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Nodes Lines Meshes
External
layer
Inner
meaning
3. Designing biology/
Designing with biology
Biotechnology, deemed as the dominant technology of our
century (Dyson, 2007) is shaping new and unfamiliar design
spaces through new technological capabilities which enable
designing with living systems.
New design frameworks and tools to understand and act on
the complexity that is formed around emerging technologies
can facilitate navigating these design spaces.
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4. Permeable
boundaries
Biotechnology ecosystem is an
example of an open innovation
system that is comprised of
heterogenous networks that weave
small, science-based biotechnology
companies, investors, and nonprofit
research organizations into a
coherent regional ‘community
which operate based on the
principles of aggregation, self-
organization and soft-assembly
(Powell & Owen-Smith, 2004).
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Fig. 2. Biotechnology ecosystem
5. Convergence
& Divergence
As the convergence of life, physical
and engineering sciences,
biotechnology builds on large
spectrum of knowledge domains
that span various disciplinary fields. Added value
applications
New
System
Knowledge
confluence spiral
Innovation
divergence spiral
Creative
phase
Integration
phase
Innovation
phase
Outcome
phase
Assembly of
interacting parts
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Fig. 6. Adapted from Roco et al. (2013). Convergence and divergence cycle
6. Convergence
& Divergence
The convergence of separate
knowledge domains not only
increases the number and diversity
of application areas but also
changes how research is being
conducted.
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Fig. 7. Adapted from ‘Modified Stokes model’ with the addition of Vision-inspired
basic research proposed by Roco et al. (2013).
Pure Basic
Research
Use-inspired
Basic Research
Vision-inspired
Basic Research
Empirical
Research
Pure Applied
Research
Low use Known use New use
LowHigh
Relevancetothe
advancementofknowledge
Relevance for applications
7. Value creation
through design
According to Heskett, design acts as
an interface between the context of
production and the context of use
(2017).
Value is created within and
embedded in artificial structures
that constitute context of
production and context of use.
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Fig. 8. Context of design practice, John Heskett, 2017.
8. Value creation
through design
Emerging technologies form new
contexts of production. Hence, the
structures that enable value
production are not solidified in the
earlier stages of technological
development.
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Fig. 8. Context of design practice, John Heskett, 2017.
9. How can design influence use-inspired
and vision-inspired biotechnology
research?
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10. Fitness landscape
The fitness landscape model locates
the attributes that contribute to
fitness and visualize the distribution
of fitness across the topography.
Thus, the model can also inform
how the agents might move across
the landscape to increase fitness, in
other words to adapt.
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Fig. 9. Fitness landscape
11. Fitness landscape
Evolution is a process of search over
fitness landscapes in which the
topography determines the
likelihood of success (Kauffman,
1992).
Success is determined by the
agent’s ability to adapt to the
landscape, and it is dependent on
both the attributes of the agent and
its interdependencies to other
agents in the ecosystem.
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Fig. 9. Fitness landscape
12. Fitness landscape
Hill climbing is an effective strategy
in finding local peaks (Norman and
Verganti, 2013) but in non-linear
networks the search for the global
optima can not be performed
successfully by pure hill-climbing
algorithms (Klein et al., 2006).
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Fig. 9. Fitness landscape
13. Designing
Fitness
In unfamiliar design spaces that are
being shaped by radical
technological changes, navigating
the fitness landscape requires an
exploratory walk.
• How might design help
exploring the landscape?
• How can design increase fitness
in a dynamic topography?
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Economic
value
Social
Institutions
Technological
OpportunityFig. 10. Fitness landscape of
context of production
14. Design
Trajectories
Design could be employed as a
generative process to increase the
diversity of efforts in innovative
search, thus, generating more
recombination possibilities of
technologies for application and
reconfiguring internal structures to
adapt to environmental changes.
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Economic
value
Social
Institutions
Technological
OpportunityFig. 10. Fitness landscape of
context of production
15. Designing the
landscape
Since a major determinant of a
fitness landscape is the density of
interdependencies among
interacting agents within a system,
the primary landscape design
activities would involve the
manipulation of these
interdependencies.
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Economic
value
Social
Institutions
Technological
OpportunityFig. 10. Fitness landscape of
context of production
17. References
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Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 pp. 263-264.
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Kauffman, Stuart A. "The origins of order: Self-organization and selection in evolution." Spin glasses and biology. (1992): 61-100.
Latour, Bruno. "A cautious Prometheus? A few steps toward a philosophy of design (with special attention to Peter Sloterdijk)." Proceedings of
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Norman, Donald A., and Roberto Verganti. "Incremental and radical innovation: Design research vs. technology and meaning change." Design
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Owen-Smith, Jason, and Walter W. Powell. "Knowledge networks as channels and conduits: The effects of spillovers in the Boston
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Roco, M. C., et al. “Converging knowledge, technology, and society: Beyond convergence of nano- bio-info-cognitive technologies.” Dordrecht,
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