Systems Psychodynamics

Two distinct research traditions have arrived, by very different routes, at the same insistence: that the designer's body matters. Höök's (2018) somaesthetic interaction design, developed through...

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...

The Scandinavian participatory design tradition has, over half a century, developed a compelling account of what design can contribute to democratic deliberation and social change. From the workplace...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...