Change By Design 2024

Conversations about the current state of  

systemic design practice

Conversations about the current state of systemic design practice

Conversations about the current state of  

systemic design practice

23rd of October
Vippa, Oslo

Doors open at 12.00

Program starts at 13.00

Doors open at 12.00

Program starts at 13.00

Doors open at 12.00

Program starts at 13.00

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Join us for a deep dive into systemic design practice

Change by [Systemic] Design 2024 is part of RSD13 (The 13th edition of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium), which takes place in Oslo.

This year's theme is "Rivers of conversation". You will hear some of the best systemic design practitioners who will share real-life cases and participate in inspiring conversations. The day ends with dinner, drinks and music.

During our afternoon together we will explore three main topics:

Swimming amid complexity: how we understand and make sense of systems, and how we use this newfound understanding.
Future branches and tributaries: the importance of opening up our eyes to the multiple possibilities of the future as part of the design process.
Collaboration and adaptive meandering: the multiple ways in which we cocreate, orchestrate work and share knowledge in complex systems.

Meet the speakers

Seona Candy is a senior researcher  and Eedla Rahikainen is a legal counsel  at DEMOS Helsinki

Seona Candy  & Eedla Rahikainen

Two steps forward, no steps back: systems thinking, foresight and arts-based methods in participatory policy design for a just transformation

In the urgent and necessary push to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, it is clear that the green transition will affect different people in different ways. Recognising that technical mitigation measures may have negative social impacts, current and previous policy announcements have also included measures to support a ‘just transition’ and emphatic pledges to ‘leave no one behind‘. However, initiatives to meet this goal remain fragmented, narrow in focus, and inadequate in addressing the social dimension of the green transition. They also often fail to engage with multiple perspectives and broader social policies, leading to lost opportunities for transformative change.

In this presentation we will show how systems thinking, foresight techniques and arts-based methods can be used to bring together citizens and decision makers in inclusive, holistic and emotionally engaged processes of policy design. We will present examples from two ongoing projects, TANDEM and SISU, to showcase how combinations of research and practice can be used in synergy to explore and co-develop just, sustainable and transformative futures.

Seona Candy  & Eedla Rahikainen

Seona Candy is a senior researcher  and Eedla Rahikainen is a legal counsel  at DEMOS Helsinki

Giulio is an innovation advisor, MBRCGI

Giulio  Quaggiotto

Could (and should) innovation be irreversible?

We are facing long term, systemic challenges in areas such as housing, air quality and education. Yet our focus is often on fast results, quick fixes and instagrammable moments.

Innovation and transformation can take a longer term view. Should we think of innovation as “irreversible” in order to better focus on long term impact? If so, why are so few initiatives explicitly aiming for “irreversibility”? And if we want irreversibility, what tactics, methods and skills do we need to achieve it?

Giulio will explore these questions, using real world examples of grappling with the tension between short term results and long term transformation. He will compare “irreversibility” with “immutability”, and reflect on the mechanisms that are needed to revive social systems.

We are facing long term, systemic challenges in areas such as housing, air quality and education. Yet our focus is often on fast results, quick fixes and instagrammable moments.

Giulio
Quaggiotto

Giulio is an innovation advisor, MBRCGI

Matilda & Karin are systemic designers  at Experio Lab in Sweden

Matilda Legeby & Karin Petrusson

Building a meandering arena for thriving youth

Developing programmes to safeguard the well being of children and young people is critical to our future, and there is a lot of interest and capacity at local level.

But existing systems and structures mean that it can be difficult to transfer successful local initiatives to the national level. We need ways to align different levels of actors, elevate local insights, and challenge the limitations of the current system.

Matilda and Karin will outline the framework they developed for a collaborative arena involving national actors, four regions, seven municipalities, and approximately 300 children. The initiative employed a dynamic and adaptive process, continuously co-created with the participants throughout its evolution.

The objectives were to:

Elevate local insights to a national level, creating a system that fosters sustainable development
Bridge the gap between present challenges and future opportunities.

Developing programmes to safeguard the well being of children and young people is critical to our future, and there is a lot of interest and capacity at local level.

The objectives were to:

Elevate local insights to a national level, creating a system that fosters sustainable development
Bridge the gap between present challenges and future opportunities.

Matilda Legeby & Karin Petrusson

Matilda & Karin are systemic designers  at Experio Lab in Sweden

Matilda & Karin are systemic designers at Experio Lab in Sweden

Linda Blaasvær and Elisabeth Skjelten are systemic designers and Simón Sandoval is a policy designer at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)

Linda Blaasvær, Elisabeth Skjelten & Simón Sandoval

Shifting perspectives in welfare systems: working with people to unpack complexity and foster change

NAV is a complex organisation. It provides a single gateway into Norwegian public services, linking together national labour and welfare administration and local municipality services. In this complexity, it's difficult to understand the system, identify the need for change and align different parts of the organisation around innovation.

But systemic design can have a key role in helping people to navigate complex challenges and create systems change. Which is why, since 2018, NAV has been experimenting with systemic design methods and mindsets in different areas and projects.

Linda, Elisabeth and Simón will talk about NAV as a system and dig into one case study that mirrors the complexity of NAV: how payments of social benefits work in Norway. They will show, discuss and reflect on:

How designers can play a key role in bringing different perspectives to a conversation
What happens when we bring together different puzzles of an issue into one surface (for example citizen’s experiences, work processes, technological aspects and regulations)
How visualisation can facilitate dialog and (hopefully) common understanding between different people, disciplines and parts of an organisation
How we can unpack regulatory issues and help people grasp something that is often complex and abstract, and through this, identify the need for change in our regulatory systems.

Linda Blaasvær, Elisabeth Skjelten & Simón Sandoval

Linda Blaasvær and Elisabeth Skjelten are systemic designers and Simón Sandoval is a policy designer at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV)

More speakers to be announced soon!

We are very excited to see you in October!

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