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News

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What Symbiotic Design is doing, where it has been and what it is reading.

EHV Innovation Cafe

RSD15-São Paulo by Systemic Design Association.

Blog

What Gonzalo Raineri is writing.

nothing published yet

Examples

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Projects, places and practices that show the Framework at work, drawn from the book and its sources.

Workers digging with hand tools at an open-pit mine.

Rare Earth Materials Industry and Child Labor

Fundación Mi Sangre, Colombia

Colombia

Books and references

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The books, reports and platforms Symbiotic Design recommends, with where to find each one.

A plain white book photographed at an angle, with bold black text on the spine and cover face.

A Handbook of Problems

Rasmus Koch, Gitte Lindeborg Holst · 2005

Large pink, yellow, pale blue and navy shapes form the letters R and D beside vertical title text, on white.

Research for Designers

Gjoko Muratovski · 2024

Ethics instruments

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Treaties, declarations and codes that set out what design owes to people and to the planet, article by article.

A woman in a white sari weaving cloth on a large traditional wooden loom

Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH Convention)

UNESCO · 2003

A compartmented case of metal type with a composing stick holding upside-down text

Icograda Design Education Manifesto (2011)

Icograda, International Council of Graphic Design Associations, later the International Council of Design (ico-D); presented at the Icograda General Assembly, Taipei · 2011

Opportunities

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Calls, funding, jobs and gatherings worth knowing about, gathered by Symbiotic Design and its community.

Mextropoli 2026: Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad, Mexico City

congress · Ciudad de México, Mexico

European Climate Pact Ambassadors: call for applications 2026

call · Europe

Academic papers

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The papers, chapters, reports and pages Symbiotic Design is fond of.

MEDIO AMBIENTE, DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE Y ESCALAS DE SUSTENTABILIDAD

Á. Paniagua, E. Moyano · 1998

Understanding Foucault

M. Bailey · 2002

Journals

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The journals and magazines Symbiotic Design follows, with what each one publishes and where to find it.

Cover of Design and Culture, Volume 18 Issue 2, July 2026: watercolour drawings of animals, including pigs and hens, and plants in soft blue, red and grey on a white panel, on a peach-pink cover.

Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum

Taylor & Francis · United States

Cover of Landscape Ecology: periwinkle blue cover with the white title above nine photos, including zebras, a flying gull, a leaping animal, a forest fire, mountains, wetlands and crop rows.

Landscape Ecology

Springer Nature · Netherlands