Systemic Cycles Tours 2026

Systemic Cycles Tours are guided learning journeys that invite participants to experience systems in motion. They are not sightseeing tours in the conventional sense, but slow, embodied explorations of landscapes, livelihoods, infrastructures, and cultures, designed as accessible entry points into systemic thinking, systemic design, and bioregional practice.

 

Each tour introduces Systemic Cycles as a methodology — a constellation of methods, practices, and praxeologies — working with inner and outer perspectives, reflection and action, sensing and sense-making. Participants learn to perceive and work with circular flows (material, energy, water, financial, social, and data flows), contradictions, and relational dynamics that shape territories and communities.

 

The tours are intentionally offered in different durations — from half-day and one-day explorations to two- and three-day immersions. This allows for low-threshold entry, while also enabling deeper engagement over time. Most tours are conducted by bicycle, supporting slow tourism and embodied learning, while some journeys are multimodal, depending on terrain, distance, and thematic focus.

 

Systemic Cycles Tours function as:

•  entry points into systems seeing and systems learning
•  gateways to slow tourism and bioregioning
•  practical introductions to Systemic Cycles as methodology and practice
•  relational connectors into the DRRS learning system, community, and network

Over time, these tours open pathways into longer-term bioregional design projects within the DRRS program of the Monteviso Institute, linking experiential learning to sustained territorial transformation. Additional tours will be offered continuously, expanding the Systemic Cycles landscape across regions and themes.

Systemic Cycles Tours — First Half-Year Overview

• SC Tour – Reading the Po rice landscape
20-23.04.2026
Format: multi-day, cycling-based

Focus & Context
Deepening the Po River experience through exchange with rice agriculture farmers; water regimes, food systems, and river landscapes

• SC Tour – Annecy Explore
24-25.04.2026
Format: 2-day, cycling / multimodal

Focus & Context
Water, mountains, and sustainability around Lake Annecy; tourism, ecology, and alpine–lacustrine systems

 

• SC Tour – Ticino Explore
27-31.05.2026
Format: multi-day, cycling-based

Focus & Context
Contradictions of “Ticino – die Sonnenstube der Schweiz”; climate, identity, mobility, and landscape

 

• SC as a Tool – MAS / ETHZ / DRRS
20-23.06.2026
Format: 2-day embedded format

Focus & Context
Systemic Cycles implemented within the MAS Field Design Trip at ETH Zurich

 

Contact us to apply: apply@monviso-institute.org