Dr. Peter Jones is an associate professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University (OCAD U), in Toronto, Canada, in the Master of Design graduate programs. He teaches systemic and service design and mixed methods research for healthcare, information services, policy, and governance. 

He is the founder of Redesign Network, a renowned innovation research consultancy with a focus on professional practices and policy platforms; co-founder and academic director of the Flourishing Enterprise Institute, a research group that develops and teaches systemic management innovations for sustainability governance, urban planning, and complex public policy; and co-founder and board member of the Systemic Design Association (SDA) and its RSD (Relating Systems Thinking and Design) Symposium, which have become leading research networks in design for complexity.

His design experience ranges from user experience and evaluation to complete online platforms for leading information providers in the commercial, government, non-profit, and academic sectors. He has also led society-driven initiatives to make a change through design. For example, he was co-founder and board member of Regenerate Toronto, where he created the “Drawdown” program (2019-2022) for community education and systemic action on climate change.

Peter Jones’ research provides the basis to advise organizations in systems leadership and transformational change. His research agenda is largely focused on the theory and application of systemic design in highly complex domains such as healthcare and public sector management.

He is a leading scholar in dialogic design and collaborative foresight for addressing complex future challenges. He is also known for his work in soft services design for communities and health; collaborative foresight for complex challenges; flourishing cultures and economies (eco-social, strongly sustainable); and organizational learning and innovation, among other areas.

Since 2008, Peter Jones has been granted funding for several projects about systemic design in healthcare, decision-making in municipal planning, and futures and foresight, mainly in Canada.

He has been a regular speaker at international scholarly and professional conferences and workshops about topics involving systemic change, design, system design and research methods focused on education, healthcare, and society, in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Canada, the United States, India, and China, to name some.

He is editor-in-chief of the new SDA journal Contexts: The Systemic Design Journal, widely published in this field. He is also a reviewer for She Ji, Systems, Form Akademisk, Organization and Environment, Information, and other journals.

Additionally, he is also the RSD Proceedings editor-in-chief, where he has organized regular special issue collections curated from the RSD Symposium series, and section editor for chapters submitted to the Systemic Design section of the Springer: Handbook of Systems Sciences.

Peter Jones has written four books about design and innovation, the most recent ones being Design Journeys through Complex Systems (BIS Publishers, 2022) and Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience (Rosenfeld Media, 2013).

He is recognized for his contributions to systemic design, like the creation of new systemic methodologies such as the Systemic Design Toolkit, Systemic Theories of Change, and the Flourishing Business Canvas.

Peter Jones joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Systemic Design for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., lnterdisciplinary Studies, Design and lnnovation Management, Union lnstitute.
• M.A., Experimental Psychology, Human Factors, University of Dayton.
• B.A., Psychology, Wright State University.

• Jones, Peter & Arun Kumar, Pranay. (2023). Formative Interventions for Healthcare Sustainability: A Developmental Design Agenda. 10.1007/978-3-031-20168-4_11. 

• Jones, P.H. and Van Ael, K. (2022). Design Journeys through Complex Systems. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers.

• Jones, P. & Barbero, s. (2022). The multi-order complexity of transdisciplinary communication. Contexts, 1.

• Waddock, S., Waddell, S., Jones, P. H., & Kendrick, I. (2022). Convening Transformation Systems to Achieve System Transformation. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2(1), 77-100.

• Murphy, R.J. & Jones, P. (2021). Towards systemic theories of change: High-leverage strategies for managing wicked problems. Design Management Journal, 16(1), 49-65.

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Dr. Muxí is Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where she teaches urbanism and gender. She is part of the research group called QURBIS - Quality of Urban Life: Innovation, Sustainability and Social Engagement. Her research at UPC has focused on three main areas: gender studies in planning and architecture; dwellings and neighborhoods; and the impact of globalization on the urban fabric (society and buildings). 

She is an architect and researcher with over 30 years of experience with a profound knowledge of gender equality principles and their application in an urban context (for example, gender quality indicators).

From 2015 to 2019, Zaida Muxí was Director of Urban Planning in the Municipality of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, in Spain, where she was responsible for urban planning, housing, environment, urban ecology, public space, public roads, and civic-related subjects. She was also responsible for the management and execution of the Strategy for Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development (EDUSI), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). She was a board member of the bit-habitat foundation in Barcelona in 2020, a space where programs and services are developed to promote and facilitate urban innovation. Since 2022, she’s been a member of the group involved in the territorial cohesion mission to draft the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan.
 

Dr. Zaida Muxí joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Architecture for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., Architecture. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla, University of Sevilla
• Master in ‘The City: Policies, Projects and Management’, Universitat de Barcelona
• Postgraduate program, Architecture and Urban Culture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

• Muxí Martínez, Zaida (2018). Mujeres, casas y ciudades. Más allá del umbral. DPR_Barcelona, 2018. Arenal: Revista de Historia de las Mujeres, 26(1), 333-338.
• Falagan, D., Montaner, J. M., & Muxí, Z. (2011). Herramientas para habitar el presente: La vivienda del siglo XXI [Review of Herramientas para habitar el presente: La vivienda del siglo XXI]. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
• Montaner, J. M., & Muxí, Z. (2011). Arquitectura y política. Ensayos para mundos alternativos. GG.
• Borja i Sebastia, J., & Muxí, Z. (2003). El espacio público: ciudad y ciudadanía [Review of El espacio público: ciudad y ciudadanía]. Barcelona. Electa.

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Dr. Muxí is Associate Professor at the Department of Urbanism and Spatial Planning of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), where she teaches urbanism and gender. She is part of the research group called QURBIS - Quality of Urban Life: Innovation, Sustainability and Social Engagement. Her research at UPC has focused on three main areas: gender studies in planning and architecture; dwellings and neighborhoods; and the impact of globalization on the urban fabric (society and buildings). 

She is an architect and researcher with over 30 years of experience with a profound knowledge of gender equality principles and their application in an urban context (for example, gender quality indicators).

From 2015 to 2019, Zaida Muxí was Director of Urban Planning in the Municipality of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, in Spain, where she was responsible for urban planning, housing, environment, urban ecology, public space, public roads, and civic-related subjects. She was also responsible for the management and execution of the Strategy for Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development (EDUSI), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). She was a board member of the bit-habitat foundation in Barcelona in 2020, a space where programs and services are developed to promote and facilitate urban innovation. Since 2022, she’s been a member of the group involved in the territorial cohesion mission to draft the Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan.
 

Dr. Zaida Muxí joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Architecture for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., Architecture. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla, University of Sevilla
• Master in ‘The City: Policies, Projects and Management’, Universitat de Barcelona
• Postgraduate program, Architecture and Urban Culture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

• Muxí Martínez, Zaida (2018). Mujeres, casas y ciudades. Más allá del umbral. DPR_Barcelona, 2018. Arenal: Revista de Historia de las Mujeres, 26(1), 333-338.
• Falagan, D., Montaner, J. M., & Muxí, Z. (2011). Herramientas para habitar el presente: La vivienda del siglo XXI [Review of Herramientas para habitar el presente: La vivienda del siglo XXI]. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
• Montaner, J. M., & Muxí, Z. (2011). Arquitectura y política. Ensayos para mundos alternativos. GG.
• Borja i Sebastia, J., & Muxí, Z. (2003). El espacio público: ciudad y ciudadanía [Review of El espacio público: ciudad y ciudadanía]. Barcelona. Electa.

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