Certificate of Advanced Studies in Regenerative Systems: Systemic Design The third Certificate of Advanced Studies “CAS ETH in Regenerative Systems: Systemic Design”

Application period: 1 May – 31 July 2026.

Systemic Design: Navigating scientific, engineering, design, and embodied methods with inner practices

We understand the emerging field or “sphere” of Systemic Design not as a discipline but a post-discipline – a hybrid combination of science, design, and systems thinking-sensing, a set of challenge-based navigation processes, techniques, and cultures.  We ask questions in Systemic Design to enact complexity through reflexive processes:

How do we enact uncertainty, immanent in complex systems? How do we navigate between science, engineering, design and inner practices for intervening toward desirable change? How do we curate inner practices for building holistic resilience of social-ecological systems? How does systems sensing relate with systemic innovation? How does Systemic Design spur regeneration? And how can all such help us to navigate, to guide, along identified challenges in the direction of desirable resilience and regeneration?

This CAS is the third out of a series of three CAS, leading to the MAS Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Regenerative Systems. The CAS’ build upon each other but can be taken in isolation and in different order. Each CAS’ theoretical and language base is the respective MOOC#1-3.

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