Harold G. Nelson, Ph.D., President and Co-founding Director of the Advanced Design Institute, Antioch University, Seattle: Creating a Design Culture

The intention of this seminar is to explore the concept of 'design culture' as a social context for the work of 'advanced systems design'. The intention is to discuss the development of design strategies for facilitating the emergence of this context. This includes examining how the idea of design, grounded in systems thinking and wholism, can be conceptualized and communicated to people outside of the field of advanced design. The design weltanshaung (world view) has symmetrical relationships with other dominant world views. This composition will be explored. A case will be made that design is distinct and categorically different from many traditions of inquiry and action which have provided meaning and understanding about the natural and the human condition. Short biography: Dr. Harold G. Nelson, President and Co-founding Director of the Advanced Design Institute is currently Director of Whole Systems Design Graduate Program at Antioch University Seattle. In addition he is an adjunct faculty member at the Union Graduate School working with interdisciplinary Ph.D. students. He is a member and previously an officer in the International Society for Systems Science, a Fellow in the International Systems Institute, a past Board Member of the International Federation for Systems Research and the Board of the Sustainable Design Institute. Dr. Nelson earned his Ph.D. in Social Systems Design from the University of California at Berkeley where his work focused on a systems approach to large scale development projects with an emphasis on issues of ethics. He has worked as a whole systems design researcher, consultant and educator. He is also a licensed architect in California and has practiced architecture in the U.S. and abroad. He has also worked as an urban designer and physical planner prior to his more recent work in 'advanced systems design'.

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