Everyday Systemic Design - Josina Vink [LECTURE]

This lecture is part of our Symbiotic Hospitality program

March 12 2026
20h - 22h

Timelab (Kogelstraat 34, 9000 Gent)

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Josina Vink is a Norwegian designer, educator and researcher. 

Vink suggests a shift in the role of systemic designers: from system architects or facilitators of abstraction toward participants who nurture conditions for collective reflexivity, bodily experimentation, and relational learning. It also aligns systemic design with design justice and oppression-aware design research, emphasizing ethical responsibility and situated accountability.

Across Vink’s work and our manifesto, guesting and hosting do not appear as fixed identities (“the host” versus “the guest”). They function as relational positions that continuously shift within a system.
From a pragmatist perspective, this aligns with the idea of transaction:
bodies, spaces, and social structures are mutually constituted through action. Hosting is therefore not something one does to another, and guesting is not something one receives. Both emerge through situated interaction, shaped by habits, infrastructures, expectations, and power relations.

Vink reframes guest-host relations as a form of everyday systemic design.