[Since Co-ordinated Management of Meaning, which I love, is featured heavily in this well-worth-it weekly email, I’m pasting the entire content here (including the appropriately self-referential Eno/Beer links link), and also signposting to

CMM Institute https://cmminstitute.org/

and a previous CMM roundup post here:

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This week in systemic design

Coordinated Management of Meaning Institute (CMMi) at RSD14-ONLINEOCT 11—Relational Connectedness. CMMi at RSD14-ONLINE is day for designers to explore the question of how we would go about designing better social worlds through our communication, relationships, and the larger systems in which we are a part. Check out the CMMi articles featured below. Categories: Announcements, Calendar, Coordinated Management of Meaning, RSD14GO TO ARTICLE

CMMi—Co-Creating Social Worlds in Relationship with OthersAbbie VanMeter: CMM has evolved into an important perspective and practice that foregrounds relationality as central to meaning-making, is increasingly applicable in everyday life, and remains rooted in a strong theoretical foundation. Categories: Coordinated Management of Meaning, Essays + Reports, RSD14, Systemic DesignGO TO ARTICLE

CMMi—On Relational Construction with Sheila McNameeCMM community conversations—What are you constructing in your relationships? Sheila McNamee’s work is focused on dialogic transformation within a variety of social and institutional contexts including psychotherapy, education, healthcare, organizations, and communities. Categories: Audio + Video, Coordinated Management of MeaningGO TO ARTICLE

CMMi—On Designing Complex Conversations with Celiane Camargo-BorgesCMM community conversations—How do we understand the complexity of who we are and who we are becoming? Abbie and Celiane use social construction as a framework to explore forming futures, intent v. impact, “good” design, and sustainability transitions. Categories: Audio + Video, Coordinated Management of MeaningGO TO ARTICLE

CMMi—Predictions, Expectations, and the Neurobiology of Sensemaking with Rachel LilleyCMM community conversations—Abbie and Rachel are two ’embodied minds’ exploring the neurobiology of sensemaking. Rachel Lilley’s RSD13 keynote and Sightlines article are available on RSDsymposium.org. Categories: Audio + Video, Coordinated Management of MeaningGO TO ARTICLE

CMMi(ish)—Design Thinking and Social ConstructionCamargo-Borges and McNamee’s 2022 book introduces the constructionist research design process as a framework for research that is creative, transformative and innovative. The link goes to the first 19-pages. Categories: Books + Guides, Coordinated Management of Meaning, Design ThinkingGO TO ARTICLE

Combining Subjectivity and Objectivity in Systems Thinking: The SOS sandwichJames Stauch and Daniela Papi-Thornton on seeking to understand, map, and then act to intervene in a system. James is presenting an online book talk on The 55 Minutes, Oct 6 at RSD14-RSDX. Categories: Announcements, i2Insights, Systems ThinkingGO TO ARTICLE

Brian Eno and Cybernetics (link collection)Very cool link collection from Benjamin Taylor. Cybernetics and Brian Eno—musician, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, and activist. Categories: Cybernetics, Systems Community of InquiryGO TO ARTICLE

Systems Thinking Practitioners Conference, Milton Keynes, UKSEP 3–4. Final Line-Up announced for SysPrac25—45 speakers. Keynotes: Mike Jackson, Alison Guthrie-Wrenn, Ray Ison, and Patrick Hoverstadt. Topics include VSM, Patterns of Strategy, and System Dynamics. Early-bird pricing to July 15. Categories: Calendar, SiCO, Systems Community of InquiryGO TO ARTICLE

The Skills for Planet BlueprintA new resource from the Design Council, created to close the green skills gap in design. It offers shared language, practical steps, and a mindset shift toward regenerative design—part of an ambitious plan to upskill one million designers by 2030. Categories: Books + Guides, Design, Design Council UKGO TO ARTICLE