It’s Time - Masterclasses
Systemic-Design Master Classes
Systemic-Design disrupts and continues the world
From the beginning of human history, humans have engaged in design activities – designing – but little is known, still today, of its true nature or full potential. Familiar approaches to designing and design education no longer match the real-world necessities and expectations of modern societies. Systemic-design does.
In order to meet these challenges, an inclusive and deep ‘conversation’ — “a turning together in the same place and space” — about systemic-designing needs to be created and maintained.
The master classes in systemic-design are designed to be catalysts in the development of shared understandings of what systemic-design is, can be, and is desired to be — some common ground for the ‘place’ and ‘space’ to have generable conversations about the aim and outcome of systemic-design education and practices — preparation and praxis.
These Master Classes are precursors to the establishment of a formal venue — a Center for Advanced Systemic Design and concomitant Systemic-Design ‘Flight’ School — for the capacitation of emerging systemic-designers and their allies.
These initial classes will be augmented by the offerings of other scholar-practitioners in systemic-designing.
These particular courses are self-paced — not tied to specific times or locations. Future courses will be interactive and cohort based tied to scheduled times and locations.
The first session is free. Subsequent sessions are fee based.
prospectus - Center for Systemic Design
who are the master classes for?
I
nascent (coming-into-being) systemic-designers
II
incipient (developing) instructors, mentors, & guides for nascent systemic-designers
III
emerging systemic-design scholar-practitioners
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future cohort and alliance members of high performance systemic-design teams
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dedicated champions and guardians of systemic-designing activity in the real world
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programs
designing systemic designers
center — advanced systemic-design
systemic-design center’s triad
I advanced systemic design flight school
II institute for advanced systemic design
III academy for advanced systemic design
A new ‘flight’ school for advanced systemic design is needed because a new normal is needed.
norms are changing
many norms have been disrupted
some norms needed disrupting
new norms need to be created
A school for systemic designing is the requisite response to contemporary challenges. The purpose of the school is to serve people learning how to think and take action rather than just training them on what to think and what action to take. Such a resource is designed to facilitate access to the world of professional systemic designing. In this context, formal learning and experiential learning move in tandem, forming the foundations for successful practice and life-long learning in advanced systemic design.
design ‘flight’ school
Prospectus - Center for Systemic Design
projects
Berkeley Bubble
Berkeley Bubble
people, ideas, organizations
https://systemic-design.org/contexts/vol1/harold-nelson/v1001-nelson/
From the early 60s through the late 70s an aggregation of exceptional scholars and professionals formed in the Berkeley environs establishing a common bond amongst themselves as well as with networks of scholars, students and professionals globally. They were not in the same disciplines, specializations or professional fields. They were colleagues sharing a common aspiration.
What they shared was a deep interest in, and commitment to, the utility of systems thinking and design action as a means to secure improvements and advancements in the human condition.
This common bond resulted in what I have called The Berkeley Bubble—which was internationally influential inside and outside of academia. Unfortunately, the Bubble began dissipating in the closing years of the last century leaving only echoes of the ideas incubated and matured in this unique crucible.
This project will be a narrative account of the individuals involved,—starting with a doctoral committee composed of some of the key people entrained in this bubble—of their influences on one another and on the world of practitioner-scholars worldwide.
Berkeley Bubble ‘influence map’