Systemic Design for Regenerative Practice 

Dates
10-15 June 2025
Plus a virtual preparatory meeting about two weeks before

 

Places
MonViso Institute campus, Serre Lamboi, Ostana, Valle Po, Italy

 

Content
This course is a specific DRRS elective and builds upon MOOC/CAS#3 Systemic Design. We will embody the use of the SD wheel of inquiry and practice question-based navigation for systemic intervention applied to the MVI system, and how SD supports and enables regenerative practice.

We will apply various SD methods in practice and explore their relational value for regeneration in the MVI context. Foreseen methods and practices are drone photogrammetry, architectural lidar and thermal scanning, 3D printing and CNC routing, visitor guidance through questioning-signalisation on trails, community integration and co-work, hosting and facilitating a community event on campus, executing the third social network analysis in Ostana, (wet)land restoration, physical community work, inner development e.g. through meditative and flow practices, a solo night out in the wild, visual dialogues with gigamapping, sketching, and others. 

 

What you learn
You will acquire in-depth practice of what regeneration entails, and of using the SD wheel of inquiry as a leading scientific, designerly and applied framework to intervene in complexity. The case of the MVI system is a rich and diverse learning playground to become profound in SD, and add substantial practical experience to the more theoretical foundational learning in SD. You will learn specific methods in their application with a high value in practice, i.e. drone photogrammetry and contour mapping, 3D and CNC engineering design for prototyping land use models (from a photogrammetry dataset of the land), visitor communication through questions and systemic simplification, social network analysis data collection through interviews, community facilitation, gigamapping, artistic expression, sketching, and accompanying inner development and resilience building through mental-physical activities in the wild mountain nature.

 

Structure
We will spend time at campus and the village on various activities, go on hikes and explore the valley while curating a dialogic process around systems mapping and sensing, and question-based (non) intervention practices. Physical work like social landscaping, drone flying, visual dialogues and gigamapping with the SD wheel, conducting SNA interviews, 3D object printing and routing, technical engineering design in the Grown lab, hosting and facilitating a community gathering together with a group of 30 elite boarding school students visiting Ostana in that period as a “tool for change”, and more. We will engage with the local community to visit various projects and exchange with a conscious meta-awareness building to nurture the regeneration work of MVI. 

 

For whom?
Those who seek to learn systemic design in deep embodied practice in a real-world design context, develop their inner self, and contribute to desired systemic change toward regeneration.

 

DRRS elective?
Yes, counting for 2 ECTS if accompanied by a written-graphical report with a potential selection as a DRRS blog publication, plus your personal learning reflection, to be submitted after the course.

 

Preconditions
MOOC#1, MOOC#2, and fundamental pre-studies of the emerging MOOC#3.
Proof of accident insurance. 

 

Costs
1450€ course participation fee, including day snacks and drinks while on campus, and two social dinners at the fire and the outdoor pizza oven. Accommodation and food are to be added depending on your choice. DRRS CAS alumni, students and those in need are eligible for a substituted course fee.

 

Accommodation and food

Option 1: Glamping on the MVI campus in a private tent.

Option 2: The Foresteria hostel in Ostana, 10min walking distance, with spacey, private bunk beds and two bathrooms for two sleeping rooms (8 people max per room). It has a kitchen where you can cook. 

Option 3: A single or double room in the Agriturismo or Rifugio Galaberna.

 

Travel
By train or Flixbus to Turin, by train to Pinerolo, where we pick you up (at fixed times).

 

Application to participate
Please apply with a short statement of motivation, a short resume of your previous education and work experience, your age, proof of MOOC#1/#2/#3 participation, and your expectations by email to apply@monviso-institute.org by 1 May 2025.