Domus Academy at RSD15: Encountering Systems through Embodied Futures
Domus Academy joins RSD15 – Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium 2026, the 15th edition of the international symposium dedicated to systemic design, taking place online on the evening of October 9 and in Turin from October 13-16, 2026. Under the theme Shades of Systemic Design, this year’s edition explores the multiple and coexisting ways of knowing and practising systemic design.
During the online RSD15 Paper Talks, Giovanni Caruso, Head of School of Design, and Silvio Cioni, Director of Education at Domus Academy, will present their short paper Encountering Systems: Embodied Futures and Worldbuilding for Systemic Design.
Domus Academy joins RSD15 – Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium 2026, the 15th edition of the international symposium dedicated to systemic design, taking place online on the evening of October 9 and in Turin from October 13-16, 2026. Under the theme Shades of Systemic Design, this year’s edition explores the multiple and coexisting ways of knowing and practising systemic design.
During the online RSD15 Paper Talks, Giovanni Caruso, Head of School of Design, and Silvio Cioni, Director of Education at Domus Academy, will present their short paper Encountering Systems: Embodied Futures and Worldbuilding for Systemic Design.
Exploring Systemic Design through Embodied Futures
Their research investigates how systemic design can move beyond representing and analysing complexity towards experiencing future systems from within. By bringing together systemic design, embodied futures and worldbuilding, the paper explores how possible futures can become tangible environments in which participants encounter roles, constraints, dependencies and forms of agency through participation and enactment.
The contribution opens a methodological perspective on how designers can not only represent complex systems, but create conditions to inhabit, question and reconfigure them, connecting systemic analysis with situated experience.
The presentation brings Domus Academy’s ongoing exploration of design futures and systemic approaches into the international RSD15 conversation, contributing to a broader discussion on how design can engage with complex and evolving futures.
FAQs - Frequently asked questions
What is Domus Academy presenting at RSD15?
Domus Academy will present research on systemic design, embodied futures and worldbuilding.
What is systemic design?
Systemic design is an approach to understanding and designing within complex, interconnected systems.
What are embodied futures?
Embodied futures allow participants to experience possible future systems through participation and enactment
Who represents Domus Academy at RSD15?
Giovanni Caruso and Silvio Cioni will present the paper during the RSD15 Paper Talks.
