{"id":23527,"date":"2026-10-08T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T00:24:10","slug":"__trashed-2-67-3-4-2-2-2-3-3-2-3-3-5-5-2-5-2-2-8-2-4-2-2-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/news-en\/2026\/10\/08\/23527\/","title":{"rendered":"WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: <br \/>&#8220;Relational aliveness \u2014 Feeling our way into systems design&#8221; by EllIS, Naoko and GLADWIN, Derek (Oct. 29)<br\/>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: &#8220;Relational aliveness \u2014 Feeling our way into systems design&#8221; by EllIS, Naoko and GLADWIN, Derek (10\/29)<\/h3>\n<h5>Abstract<\/h5>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW11128328 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW11128328 BCX8\">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.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW11128328 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245417&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Speaker<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2026\/09\/03\/23210\/\">ELLIS, Naoko<\/a>\u00a0 (Full Professor, The University of British Columbia)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2026\/09\/03\/23241\/\">GLADWIN, Derek<\/a>\u00a0 (Associate Professor of Education, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, at the University of British Columbia)<\/p>\n<h5>Date&amp;Time<\/h5>\n<p>October 29, 2026 (Fri.)\u00a0 14:00 \u2013 16:00<\/p>\n<h5>Venue<\/h5>\n<p>Room #610, Building #19, Waseda Campus, Waseda University (tentative)<\/p>\n<h5>Prospected Audience<\/h5>\n<p>Students, Graduate students, Faculty members, Research members, General Participants<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Language<\/h5>\n<p>English<\/p>\n<h5>Organizer<\/h5>\n<p>\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u9ad8\u7b49\u7814\u7a76\u6240 \/ Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)<\/p>\n<h5>Registration<\/h5>\n<p>Free; pre-registration not required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: &#8220;Relational aliveness \u2014 Feeling our way into systems design&#8221; by  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82,94,73],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-general-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23550,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions\/23550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}