Rahmin Bender-Salazar

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway | NUI Galway

Traditional, “take-make-dispose” economies have had devastating impacts on people and the environment. But the circular economy model has the potential to trigger far-reaching change, and put the world on track to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the predominant approach to economic growth has created vast amo...

Organizations in a wide array of fields and disciplines are increasingly using design thinking as an innovative process to create products or services that address wicked problems in their industries. Design thinking, a method of creative and collaborative problem solving originating in the tactics of designers, is a product design and development...

Systems thinking is when we look at the whole system and all of its interactions, instead of looking at more superficial external events, which are symptoms of a larger problem. Based on systems thinking principles, we know that claims on “achieving impact on systems” or “addressing complex problems successfully” represent a slippery slope since se...

Preparation trajectory towards the Professional Development Workshop (PDW) titled "Changing Socio-Ecological Systems at the Theory-Practice Nexus" at the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meetings 2021. This trajectory has been organised thanks to the support of Montpellier Business School, France, and NWO (Dutch Scientific Organization), The Neth...

The use of innovation to address our social or environmental needs is now critical. Globally, we are faced with numerous challenges which require novel, robust solutions that consider multiple scenarios and stakeholders. Innovation education has often been siloed into enterprise, business, and engineering programs to bolster the innovative potency...

In an era defined by intricate challenges such as climate change, inequality and biodiversity loss, a systems perspective has become paramount. The interconnected nature of these issues demands a deep understanding of patterns, relationships and dependencies. This paper, a collaborative effort between the World Economic Forum and Trinity College D...

This presentation lays out a vision of sustainable futures with the circular economy as a mechanism to transform social and ecological systems with justice, inclusion, and mutual prosperity as the goal. The presentation emphasizes the importance of collaboration, a systems orientation, human dignity, regenerative design, and building a better futur...

Organizations in a wide array of fields and disciplines are increasingly using design thinking as an innovative process to create products or services that address wicked problems in their industries. Design thinking, a method of creative and collabora‑ tive problem solving originating in the tactics of designers, is a product design and developmen...

As source for this infographic, please refer to and cite the following: Dentoni, D., Cucchi, C., Roglic, M., Bender-Salazar, R., Lubberink, R. and Manyise, T. (2022). Systems Thinking, Mapping, and Change in Food and Agriculture. Bio-based and Applied Economics 11(4), 277-301.

Societal actors across scales and geographies increasingly demand visual applications of systems thinking - the process of understanding and changing the reality of a system by considering its whole set of interdependencies - to address wicked problems affecting food and agriculture. Yet, despite the wide offer of systems mapping tools, there is st...

Entrepreneurship—the act of venture creation to create value by recombining resources—is an innovation driver and change agent within our global economy. Our current approach to entrepreneurship echoes our current economic framework in its basic form, with an orientation towards economic growth. For entrepreneurship to meet the needs of the future,...

Systems thinking offers great opportunities to better understand and address socio- ecological problems holistically. But how can we meaningfully apply systems thinking in management theory & practice without getting lost in its own complexity and ideals? In this PDW, we will practice, reflect and discuss on using systems thinking: 1) as an individ...

This document brings together materials produced for and during the one-day PhD by Design Satellite Session taking place as part of DRS2018 on June 25, as well as the remaining DRS conference running June 26-28, 2018, Limerick, Ireland. In line with the DRS2018 theme of 'Catalyst', the PhD by Design Satellite Session explored how design can be a ca...