Systems Engagements
What can systems psychodynamics - the Tavistock tradition of studying unconscious processes in organisations - offer design researchers working with social and institutional materials?
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Systems Psychodynamics for Design Researchers
March 1, 2024
Over the past year I have been reaching, in several posts and in the course of my industrial doctorate work, towards a set of ideas or perceptions about design and the design process that, it turns...
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The Image and the Organisation-in-the-Mind
March 15, 2024
Design practice is, at its core, representational work. Designers make sketches, journey maps, system maps, concept models, diagrams - visual and conceptual representations intended to change how...
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Simulations as Transitional Objects
March 28, 2024
A recent seminar - Berggren's - as part of the Systems Engagements series at Linköping University on systems simulation raised a question I have been circling around in my own practice without having...
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The Body as Container and as Defended Territory
April 25, 2024
Vink's paper on bodily entanglements in social systems design makes a case that systems design has neglected the body - that it has operated primarily through cognitive and representational modes,...
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Co-creation and the Unconscious Life of the Workshop
May 15, 2024
Jones's seminar - as part of the ongoing Systems Engagements series at Linköping Univerity - on facilitating co-creation in context introduced a set of principles for convening participatory...
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Aesthetic Disruption Meets Social Defences
May 28, 2024
The aesthetic disruption literature in service design - developed most fully by Vink, Wetter-Edman and Blomkvist (2018) and Wetter-Edman, Vink and Blomkvist (2017) - makes a compelling case that...
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The Designer's Role, Authority and Countertransference
June 18, 2024
The posts in this series have traced a set of connections between the systems design literature - explored on a recent Linköping University PhD course, and the Tavistock tradition of systems...