WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: “Relational aliveness — Feeling our way into systems design” by EllIS, Naoko and GLADWIN, Derek (10/29)
Abstract
We live in a time when planetary systems are simultaneously unraveling and re-forming, making relational approaches to systems design essential for navigating complex, interconnected challenges. This workshop explores relational aliveness as a co-design practice grounded in presence, collective sense-making, and attention to the web of relationships that shape people, systems, and ideas. Drawing on work from the Systems Beings Lab at the University of British Columbia, participants engage emotional, intellectual, and embodied dimensions of collaboration through dialogue, reflective exercises, and collaborative activities that treat discomfort and uncertainty as generative.
Speaker
ELLIS, Naoko (Full Professor, The University of British Columbia)
GLADWIN, Derek (Associate Professor of Education, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, at the University of British Columbia)
Date&Time
October 29, 2026 (Fri.) 14:00 – 16:00
Venue
Room #610, Building #19, Waseda Campus, Waseda University (tentative)
Prospected Audience
Students, Graduate students, Faculty members, Research members, General Participants
Language
English
Organizer
早稲田大学高等研究所 / Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
Registration
Free; pre-registration not required.
