Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic TelegraphThis is the first of two public lectures by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics18 Oct 2022EventsCollapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic TelegraphREGISTER2 November, 6–7.15pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

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(In multiple layers of irony, these appear to be face-to-face events only?!)

Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic Telegraph

This is the first of two public lectures by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.

Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics
18 Oct 2022

Events

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2 November, 6–7.15pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

The Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of EntanglementThe ANU School of Cybernetics is proud to host this public lecture by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics18 Oct 2022EventsThe Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of EntanglementREGISTER3 November, 12.30–1.30pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

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The Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of Entanglement

The ANU School of Cybernetics is proud to host this public lecture by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.

Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics
18 Oct 2022

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3 November, 12.30–1.30pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

Education- and Income Inequality as Drivers of Violent Property Crime in South Africa: A System Dynamics Modelby Felix Adam 1 andSara Grobbelaar 1,2,*

Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Education- and Income Inequality as Drivers of Violent Property Crime in South Africa: A System Dynamics Model

Not endorsing MDPI, but this looks like a very interesting paper.

Fall 2022 – Power, Justice, and Systems Change Webinar SeriesYou are invited to an international conversation about power in the systems change field and the role of equity and justice work in changing systems. 

Fall 2022 – Power, Justice, and Systems Change Webinar Series — Illuminate Systems

This Friday, join the conversation!
On The Edge of Systems Change and socio-environmental transformation
FRI, OCT 28, 4:00PM (EST), On The Edge of Systems Change, from the Illuminate Network. A clubhouse chat With Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis & Luis Alejandro
Join Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia, in conversation with Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis about socio-environmental transformation, her journey to this work, and the development of creative solutions to social and environmental problems.

Ana Lucía is co-founder of Arare Corporation, a civil organization dedicated to support and nourish territorial organization and socio-environmental regeneration processes in Colombia and Latin America.

This is an opportunity for candid conversation with time and space for listeners to contribute thoughts via chat and to be “handed the mic,” to ask questions or share reflections.

When: October 28th, 4:00-5:00pm ET
Where: Illuminate Network Clubhouse
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Systems Thinking – A Paradigm Shift in Tackling The Climate Puzzle.

9-11 November 2022

Systems Thinking – A Paradigm Shift in Tackling The Climate Puzzle. Workshop

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Workshop participation is free of charge. Travel costs, accommodation and meals during the workshop meals are provided by FNF.ABOUT THE WORKSHOP   All organisations face complex challenges and opportunities. Today’s challenges are often created at the intersection of social, technological, environmental, economic, governance and geo-political tensions. This has led to fragmentation of policy solutions that have unintentionally imposed burdens on employers, individuals, and the environment to harm the biosphere and the communities they were meant to protect. What if these burdens were avoidable? What if governments could equip themselves with better tools to tackle complexity? What contribution would you make if YOU had access to those same tools? Why is it a core liberal interest to acquire these tools? What to expect? This workshop takes you on the start of a professional development journey. You’ll explore systems thinking, a scientific tool that helps remodel decision-making processes and tackle complex interdependent issues for sustainable viability. Systems thinking is applied in many different fields of academic research. Brought down from theory into practice it is a most critical skill to meet multiple interdependent goals that empowers us to excel both as individuals and collectively. Systems thinking explores the boundaries of what we account for in decision-making, how to fully appreciate multiple stakeholder perspectives, and how to see organisations, communities, and the planet as an interdependent system. Accordingly, systems thinking is useful right across the private, public, voluntary and community sectors – especially when set up to achieve joint objectives that they cannot realise on their own. For liberals, improving the interconnectivity of systems in different policy fields, reducing opportunity costs, and increasing performance is a natural ambition. Systems thinking provides freedom to achieve this ambition: breaking free from where such ambitions usually get stuck. For example, systems thinking can help components of a free-market economy to grow and become resilient in an increasingly competitive world, all the while building both social value and climate protection. Ideally, this process can accelerate action toward an equitable, just, inclusive, fair, and authentic net-zero world. This, in turn results in greater freedoms for all in an interdependent world. Why should you join? You will dive in to a world of three-dimensional thinking that goes beyond your usual education and experience. You will raise your ability to understand the unknown unintended consequences and missed opportunities from decisions in the systems in which you live and work, and apply your insights flexibly to other and bigger problem fields, including global markets, climate change, and the environment. Learn how actions of each of us affects the many. Start thinking three-dimensionally and understand the feedback loops that can cause systemic problems to remain unsolved. Become a better decision-maker and problem-solver to harmonise operational functions and government policies. Advance positive action for the improvement of climate change, the amelioration of biosphere service levels and greater social justice, the greatest innovation today is a shift to systems thinking. Outline OUR EXPERTSChristopher Gleadle is CEO of The Paddy Ashdown Forum (PAF). He is a veteran consultant, speaker and trainer in critical systems thinking at the nexus of human, technical and natural systems. He has published substantially in the field and contributed ground-breaking tools, such as the Sphere Economy model, which is now a widely recognised method to apply systems thinking to economic problems. Chris specialises in teaching and promoting three-dimensional problem-solving at the interface of economic productivity, sustainability, the biosphere, and social justice.Prof. Dr. Gerald Midgley is Professor of Systems Thinking in the Hull University Business School. He also holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of Queensland, Australia; Mälardalen University, Sweden; the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Gerald was Director of the Centre for Systems Studies at Hull from 1997 to 2003 and from 2010 to 2014. He has had more than 300 papers published on systems thinking, action research and stakeholder engagement, and has been involved in a wide variety of public sector, community development and resource management projects.Isabella Pucher is Director of Projects The Paddy Ashdown Forum (PAF). She is a former policy advisor and researcher with an extensive background on topics such as Europe, defence, trade, international relations, diplomacy, or Nordic Council, to name just a few. Isabelle draws on a diverse professional background from the Swedish Parliament as well as the House of Commons & House of Lords.Dr. Emma Saunders is General Manager at Genesis Biosciences an integral part of scientific innovation in the UK. With a background in Biochemistry and Genetics with Physiology, Emma Saunders drives industry-leading, performance-driven products and solutions surrounding technology and science: playing a direct role in addressing major challenges our world faces, from diagnosing and curing diseases, reducing hunger and poverty, and protecting the environment.Dr. Michael Walsh, is senior lecturer in Management, Work and Organisation at the University of Sterling. He is a member of the Sterling Institute for Health (and acted as its inaugural chair from 2009-2012), the Open Research Society and the Institute for Consulting. His expertise in critical systems thinking, action research and participative planning and problem solving underpins his research and development.

Griffith University Yunus Centre

Griffith University Yunus Centre

The Yunus Centre at Griffith University exists to accelerate transitions to regenerative and distributive futures through systems innovation

Oct 25

The role and power of re-patterning in systems change

7 everyday patterns to shift systems towards equity

Many recent discussions about civic innovation and systems change have focused on big structural changes that need to take place if we are to grow more equitable outcomes. Along with our friends at TSI / Auckland Co-Design Lab we suspected that we also needed to explore what could happen underneath those structures at the level of more fundamental and ‘everyday’ values, mindsets, behaviours and interactions.

The role and power of re-patterning in systems change | by Griffith University Yunus Centre | Y Impact | Oct, 2022 | Medium

JOIN THE BATESON ANNIVERSARIES TALK ON ‘Cybernetics’ TUESDAY—OCTOBER 25th at 6 PM CEST

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We are excited to invite you to the Bateson Anniversaries October Conversation on Cybernetics. We would like to share the following essay with you before our session, taken from Gregory Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind—THE CYBERNETICS OF “SELF”: A THEORY OF ALCOHOLISM.  Gregory Bateson said:“I think that cybernetics is the biggest bite out of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that mankind has taken in the last 2000 years.  But most of such bites out of the apple have proved to be rather indigestible — usually for cybernetic reasons… There is also latent in cybernetics the means of achieving a new and perhaps more human outlook, a means of changing our philosophy of control and a means of seeing our own follies in wider perspective.”(From Versailles to Cybernetics)We look forward to digesting our own follies together. Please register below to receive the link:BATESON ANNIVERSARIES CONVERSATION ON CYBERNETICSWarmly,Leslie, Nora and Göran  Hosted by Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute, & Bateson Idea Group

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Bateson Anniversaries October Conversation: CyberneticsDate & TimeOct 25, 2022 05:00 PM in LondonMeeting Registration

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ECAS Systems MapThe Systems Mapping process was facilitated by Scott Spann (Innate Strategies) and involved over 80 public and private partners in 2012.  The map documents the array of systems’ components within Hawaii’s early childhood system.  The map spotlights potential levers of change that would have the greatest impact for improving the lives our youngest children.Click the map above to see an enlarged, PDF version of the map. You can learn more about the process followed during the mapping process by reading and watching the videos on the post “Building Shared Understanding Through System Mapping.”

ECAS Systems Map — Early Childhood Action Strategy

h/t Systems Innovation

6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics 

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Philip Husbands,

Owen Holland

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262083775.003.0006

• Published: February 2008

The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics | The Mechanical Mind in History | MIT Press Scholarship Online | Oxford Academic

Oct 23, 2022 | 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST

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Join us for a lively discussion of the distinction that has been a defining feature of the American Society for Cybernetics since at least 1974.

Abstract

This is an interactive panel discussion that asks the questions: Has the distinction between 1st and 2nd order cybernetics run its course, now sufficiently embedded in our cybernetic practice and thought to move on? That is, is the practice of cybernetics self-aware, explicitly embedding responsibility (and, at least implicitly, ethical considerations) when doing whatever we do? Even if not yet sufficient, should we nudge ourselves in new directions anyway?  What’s next?

Participants:

Tom Scholte, University of British Columbia
Claudia Westermann, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Howard Silverman, Willamette University
Mark Johnson, University of Manchester
(Im)Moderator: Larry Richards, Indiana University East

Papers / Links:

For background information, see the Wikipedia page on Second Order Cybernetics

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Systems change: all things to all people?

Systems change: all things to all people? – Renaisi