JUST IN | OCT 18–21. RSD15-Ostana focuses on systemic design for regenerative practice and makes time for deep embodied practice in a real-world design context
Retreat: Systemic Design for Regenerative Practice
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Learning & Education
Opportunities for professional development through structured and informal programmes. Also includes approaches to design education and pedagogy, encompassing theories and practices of teaching.
Design Education for Sustainability: Designing for planet and for life
Authors Joanna Boehnert and Emma Dewberry respond to the need to augment and expand Design for Sustainability and the ecological design thinking that supports it. The paper proposes a three-year program to embed sustainability and ecological literacy in undergraduate design education.
Leading Co-Design in Complex Systems
JUNE 2026 | ONLINE. A new course from Emma Blomkamp & Co., Leading Co-Design in Complex Systems is for purpose-driven professionals who want to co-create better outcomes with their colleagues, clients and communities.
Seanna Davidson: Systems Leadership AMA
JAN 21 2026 Americas | JAN 22 2026 Australasia | ONLINE. Say hi to Seanna! the systems leadership program is a place for … folks who are trying to be good humans, committed to contributing to the health of the whole while taking care of, and sustaining self.
A library guide to support transdisciplinarity
By ANU Library Guide Working Group. What tools can libraries develop to support transdisciplinary education and research? What are the challenges and requirements to make such tool development happen?
think different
Universities are designed around analysis and reductive inquiry. Businesses function around departments of specialization. Governments are reductive in both stance and approach. These dominant strategies have all worked well for large numbers of people, but there is a growing unease about the dominant strategy.
Introducing DreamUp—The game that turns creativity into collaboration
Katie Krummeck’s exciting kickstarter for DreamUP development. Katie is a social impact designer and thought leader in leveraging the power of design to drive change in social systems.
Transdisciplinarity in Africa: Key issues in achieving higher education’s third mission
Basirat Oyalowo asks, “How can transdisciplinarity in Africa help achieve higher education’s third mission, namely making a contribution to society? What are the best pathways for achieving this? What are the key obstructions and potential ways around them?”
Online Course: Bioregioning in Practice
Systemic designers will recognise the facilitators. The Bioregional Learning Alliance course in foundational concepts and practical applications of bioregioning starts April 21 (online 10-weeks with certificate).
The Art of Regenerative Educatorship
Bas van den Berg’s upcoming book, co-written with Koen Wessels and Mieke Lopes Cardozo. Open access launch June 12 livestream and @Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam.
Cumulus Conference: Ethical Leadership
The 2025 Spring Cumulus Conference (A New Frontier for Design) in Nantes will explore new design ethics through six tracks: Care, City, Food, Digital, Media, and Design & Entrepreneurship.
New Master of Advanced Studies MAS in Regenerative Systems at ETH Zurich
In this video conversation, Daniel Christian Wahl and I discuss some of the leading-edge content, didactics and practical benefits of the new Master of Advanced Studies program in Regenerative Systems offered by ETH Zurich | School for Continuing Education, as part of the #DRRS program by Systemic Design Labs ⎟ETH Zurich, which I am responsible for.