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How many Ways to Design for Sustainability?
Published in Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design, 2017
Fabrizio Ceschin, Idil Gaziulusoy
Systemic design is another nature-inspired approach that, differently from cradle-to-cradle and biomimicry, focuses on mimicking natural ecosystems. It combines elements of biomimicry, cradle-to-cradle and industrial ecology. As described by Barbero and Toso (2010), the Systemic Design approach seeks to create not just industrial products, but complex industrial systems. It aims to implement sustainable productive systems in which material and energy flows are designed so that waste from one productive process becomes input to other processes, preventing waste from being released into the environment. Systemic design adopts a territorial approach, looking at local socio-economic actors, assets and resources, with the aim of creating synergistic linkages among productive processes (agricultural and industrial), natural processes and the surrounding territory (Bistagnino, 2009; 2011; Barbero and Fassio, 2011).
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Published in Wanda Grimsgaard, Design and Strategy, 2023
Systemic design is an approach to design that makes it possible to solve design tasks in a sustainable way at advanced environmental, social and economic levels. The designer must solve increasingly complex tasks. To help address current complex challenges and create solution for a broader change, the use of systemic design is at the core. The report Beyond Net zero: A Systemic Approach, launched by Design Council (2021),54 is an example of that. ‘The systemic design framework has been developed to help designers working on major complex challenges that involve people across different disciplines and sectors. It places our people and our planet at the heart of design’ (Design Council 2021).
Integration of novice designers into interdisciplinary teams
Published in Rita Almendra, João Ferreira, Research & Education in Design: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy, 2020
Having been celebrated for decades as adopting innovative practices, partly due to studio and project-based approaches, design education is now confronted with a need to adapt to emerging methods and practices of the work world. As mentioned by Jones (2017), we face new challenges related to our societies, migration, equitable economy, as well as climate change, housing and health care; systemic approaches are needed to tackle these complex problems. In this sense, the objective of systemic design is “to affirmatively integrate systems thinking and systems methods to guide human-centered design for complex, multi-system, and multi-stakeholder services and programs across society.” (Jones 2017, p 157). The complexity of projects and problems which designers face collaboratively asks for extensive approaches and perspectives to guide their reflexions and progress. Activity Theory, because of its systemic and situated nature is one possible avenue to support the development of design practice accordingly. Moreover, by using the Designerly Activity Theory to analyse the collected data, and by introducing it in the practice of novice designers, the research proposed in this article seeks to identify new avenues in design education that are better aligned with the needs of students preparing to enter the workforce as design practitioners. Designerly Activity Theory will allow us to endorse a systemic point of view to scope relevant aspects of the situation, identify persistent contradictions, and evaluate the impact of active components. The expanded model will support the in-depth comprehension of the challenges encountered by novice designers, both visually and cognitively – allowing for thorough interpretation and comparison of the various case studies.
Form follows users: a framework for system-based design
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2020
Based on the system theory, the Systems Thinking (ST) approach has been integrated into design disciplines in the last half-century. The major thinkers of the ST approach agree that ‘To make sense of the complexity of the world, we need to look at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than splitting it down into its parts and looking at each in isolation.’ (Ramage & Shipp, 2009, p. 1). Accordingly, the dissection of a problem into parts should not mean isolation from other parts or contexts. Providing a unified platform for the communication of various fields and stakeholders, ST is a potential form of design thinking that helps bridge the worlds of business and design, and research and practice to induce a change in the world (Brown, 2009; Checkland, 2000; Meadows, 2011). As a result of the application of ST to design, a new Systemic Design (SD) domain has emerged as an integrative inter-discipline to provide solutions to the complexity of design problems. SD is a holistic approach applied to projects of artifacts and services to enable designers to have a broader view of the context/scenario in which these artifacts and services will be used (Battistoni, Giraldo Nohra, & Barbero, 2019; Eilouti, 2018a). Additionally, SD is an approach of systems thinking that provides a method to tap into the holistic interpretation and analysis of a problem and its elements, contexts, and potential solutions (Barbero, 2016; Battistoni & Barbero, 2017; Battistoni et al., 2019; Charnley, Lemon, & Evans, 2011; Davidová, 2017; Jones, 2014; Jones & Kijima, 2018; Toso, Barbero, & Tamborrini, 2012). SD applies a combination of the systems theory and the holism theory with creative methods and mindsets to integrate technical knowledge and artistic skills to transform abstract programs into collective actions/products (Jones & Kijima, 2018).