Canadian Government Executive - Volume 22 - Issue 5

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Canadian Government Executive /

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T E L FER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT UN I V ERS I T Y OF OT TAWA PROJECTS ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE COMPLEX We are pleased to announce the launch of the Master of Business in Complex Project Leadership* . Designed to give you the necessary skills to successfully lead: • Complex Capital Procurement Projects • Business Transformation and Organizational Change • Innovation, R&D, and New Product Development • Information Technology and Information Systems *Pending Approval from the Province of Ontario telfer.uOttawa.ca/cpl

Design

• Reforming the family justice system

• Enhancing community experience by

design in Canadian cities

• Public sector purchasers as value cre-

ators in the food system

• Decision-making for environmental poli-

cy development

• Leading systems change in the charita-

ble sector

• Tackling hunger, poverty, housing, wa-

ter, farming, and health in developing

nations

The RSD series has led the development

of new practices and methods known as

systemic design, which integrate systems

thinking and theories into the design ap-

proaches. Methods such as system map-

ping and visualization, system models for

business planning and policy, foresight-

driven design, and structured stakeholder

dialogues are presented to showcase new

inquiry and prototype solutions for these

complex problem areas.

This October, RSD5 will focus on sys-

temic design for social complexity. The

RSD5 symposium is curating presenta-

tions, workshops, panels, and posters deal-

ing with the effective design and change

interventions in the hyper-complex prob-

lems facing governments, sectors, service

systems (such as healthcare and immigra-

tion), and urban development. OCAD Uni-

versity and MaRS Discovery District are

organizing the venue, and veterans from

Alberta CoLab and the Oslo School of Ar-

chitecture and Design are co-creating the

program. New knowledge and learning

from completed case and field research is

being sought for:

• Social System and Transition Design

• Service Design, Healthcare System De-

sign

• Complex Sociotechnical Systems

• Sustainability and Socio-ecological Policy

• Democracy, Policy Design and Modes of

Governance

• Public Services Design and Civic Inno-

vation

• Theories and Methods of Systemic De-

sign

• Systemic Business and Organizational

Design

• Built Environment and Design of Settle-

ments

• Capacity Building and Resilient Devel-

opment.

P

eter

J

ones

is an associate profes-

sor at OCAD University in the MDes

Strategic Foresight and Innovation

program and guides research in the

Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab.ocadu.

ca). He is the lead chair for RSD5,

Relating Systems Thinking and Design,

hosted by OCADU Oct 13-15, 2016.

While the submission for paper presentations closes as of May 3 , workshop and poster sessions are being accepted until June 11 . RSD information and past proceedings are available online at http://systemic-design.net.