Volume 3, Issue 4, 2020 ISSN: 2617-9938 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31058/j.ad.2020.34004 Submitted to Art and Design, page 30-41 www.itspoa.com/journal/ad The Role of Systemic Design in a First Re- Connection of Food Webs and Health Systems Alessandra Savina 1* , Pier Paolo Peruccio 1 1 Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Email Address alessandra.savina@polito.it (Alessandra Savina), pierpaolo.peruccio@polito.it (Pier Paolo Peruccio) *Correspondence: alessandra.savina@polito.it Received: 5 September 2020; Accepted: 20 September 2020; Published: 28 September 2020 Abstract: Nowadays the growing disconnects between food webs and health systems are certainly a complex problem. It is generating a strong perturbation of human and environmental health by destabilizing the balance of territories and communities. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate and describe how the figure of the systemic designer can contribute to a first re-connection between the agri-food and health sectors through a transdisciplinary approach, guaranteeing a greater level of well- being to the food consumer, to the patient and more generally, to the citizen. The final purpose of this paper is the design of a system of relationships among numerous local actors, such as food producers and processors, doctors, associations and the civil community, for the first phase of re-construction of a more healthy and sustainable territorial system. Keywords: Systemic Design, Agro-food Production, Public Health, Network of Relationships, Multidisciplinary Approach, Social Awareness, Paradigm Shift 1. Introduction Nowadays the scientific community and the civil society are called to face a historical moment characterized by continuous perturbations involving different disciplinary fields. The repercussions of environmental transformations on territorial structures and the balance of social and economic systems are leading the human being to reformulate - in terms of greater sustainability and resilience - his ways of acting, working, planning, and living. In this extremely complex scenario, characterized by a process of continuous and not precisely predictable change, the topic of food, as an essential constituent to guarantee life on the planet, as a material for nourishment, but above all as a key element of most economic systems, anthropic and cultural features of a territory, represents a fundamental aspect. In fact, food production is closely linked to the balance of environmental systems and, in turn, is able to strongly disturb the stability, well-being and, relationships of social systems. However, the design and management of agri-food supply chains are moving with