Samah Kamalmaz

As design assumes a broader role in shaping organizations, cities, and cultural systems, new ways of thinking and working are emerging💡 This talk introduces Systemic Design through three use cases connected to Saudi Vision 2030, offering insight into how designers and strategists engage with complexity, long-term change, and the relationships between interconnected systems. In collaboration with Contexture, the session brings a global perspective on Systemic Design and opens a conversation on how these approaches can be understood and applied within the local creative and cultural sectors. The session concludes with an open Q&A. Register here: almashtal.typeform.com/to/AslLjuoA مع توسع دور التصميم في تشكيل الجهات والمدن والأنظمة الثقافية، صارت تظهر طرق جديدة للتفكير والعمل💡 في هالجلسة بنتعرف على التصميم المنهجي من خلال ثلاث حالات مرتبطة برؤية السعودية 2030، ونستعرض كيف يتعامل المصممين والاستراتيجيين مع التعقيد، والتغييرات طويلة المدى، والعلاقات بين الأنظمة المترابطة. وبالتعاون مع Contexture، تقدّم الجلسة نظرة عالمية على التصميم المنهجي، وتفتح مساحة للنقاش حول فهم هالمقاربات وتطبيقها محليًا في القطاعات الإبداعية والثقافية. تُختتم الجلسة بنقاش مفتوح. @zaid___khan @SamahKamalmaz #المشتل #AlMashtal

Workshop on #Pacing Changes @iF_hamont, @StephHolko charting rhythms guided by @zaid___khan + @SamahKamalmaz. Technique hand-drawing on stacking transparent slides, overhead projector 1950s technology. Hosted by @CITM_Canada, small business invitees learned temporal perspective

OCAD University: Panel at #RSDSymposium on with @zaid___khan, @SamahKamalmaz, #PerinRuttonsha, @ryanjamurphy, @seannalee, on New Design Leadership in Complexity. Some controversy on humbling stance for designers towards non-intervention as non-action in urgency. (Toronto)

"Humbling Design is about learning when to act and when to let things unfold." The essence of my recent TEDxOCADU challenges design's bias-for-action esp in complex scenarios. Perhaps we can value deliberate non-action. youtube.com/watch?v=RwDU7v…

On languishing, or not. "But one has to remember that naming doesn’t just describe the world, it creates the world, too." Makes me wonder about the countless things we might be creating unconsciously. austinkleon.com/2021/04/26/im-…

The cumulation of the intensive Systemic Design course at @OCADUgrad. WIP of our Synthesis Map, with team mates @Alfyx , Véronique Claude, & Carly Benson. Thank you Profs Peter Jones & Jeremy Bowes for guiding us throughout this term.