Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice
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A journal for relationally attuned and systemic social constructionist practitioners and practitioner-researchers with a commitment to social responsibility in community, leadership, therapy, education, organisations, health and social care.
THE WRITING PROJECT POETRY FOR NOW! Share your poems or stanza writing about relational changes and their unfolding consequences across human and non-human systems
The Writing Project – Poetry For Now!
Announcing Part 2 of The Systemic Flux Writing Project hosted by Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice.
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‘Managing the complexity of climate change’, 6th October to 17th Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS) National & International Conference, joined organized with the 11th European Union for Systemics (EUS) International Congress, at: https://cosit2021.org/papers# ; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3636845 , powerpoint at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GaajbcpFIVumKss7TCUB3PBiBXl7Zs0q/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112006550101587997390&rtpof=true&sd=true
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350761065_Managing_the_Complexity_of_Climate_Change
‘How cybernetics explains behavioural tensegrity and its advantages for organisations’, Presentation for the 18th Annual Congress of World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) online September to 27thhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3913811
PowerPoint at: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D1HdIBfv3qk7oUwA_SrYB_UP6vcUDRAQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112006550101587997390&rtpof=true&sd=true
If you don’t have a subscription, open the link and before the page has loaded hit ‘print’, select print to pdf, and hit ‘print’ on the print dialogue (works on Chrome on Windows computer).
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2019/12/18/can-technology-plan-economies-and-destroy-democracy
he operations room of “Project Cybersyn” (short for “cybernetics synergy”) was created by Chile’s president Salvador Allende in the early 1970s as a place from which the country’s newly nationalised and socialised economy could be directed. To build it, Allende had hired Staord Beer, a British consultant, who requisitioned a mainframe computer and connected it to telex machines in factories. Industrial managers would input data which would then be centrally analysed; instructions for any necessary changes would be sent back.
Ironically, the socialist system’s most notable success was in outmanoeuvring lorry drivers whose strike threatened to bring down Allende’s government in 1972. After Chile’s generals stormed the presidential palace on September 11th 1973 and Allende killed himself, Cybersyn was destroyed: a soldier is said to have stabbed all the screens in the operations room with a knife.
It was a bloody reprisal of a then half-century-old debate about how best to run an economy. Allende had thought that, with state-of-the-art 1970s communications and computers, it would be possible for government to
optimise an industrial economy. The Chicago-school economists advising Pinochet in Chile thought that the far greater information-processing capacity of the market would do better. In Chile their opinion was imposed by force.
The success of market- and semi-market-based economies since then has made
the notion of a planned economy seem like a thing of the past. But were a latter-day Allende to build a Cybersyn 2.0 it could now gather data via billions of sensors rather than a few telex machines, and crunch them in data centres packed with tens of thousands of servers. Given enough power, might it not replace the autonomous choices on which the market is based?
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/10/23/enter-third-wave-economics
As part of his plan for socialism in the early 1970s, Salvador Allende created Project Cybersyn. The Chilean president’s idea was to ooffer bureaucrats unprecedented insight into the country’s economy. Managers would feed information from factories and elds into a central database. In an operations room bureaucrats could see if production was rising in the metals sector but falling on farms, or what was happening to wages in mining. They would quickly be able to analyse the impact of a tweak to regulations or production quotas Cybersyn never got o the ground. But something curiously similar has emerged in Salina, a small city in Kansas.
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Whatever the concerns, the pandemic has given economists a new lease of life. During the Chilean coup of 1973 members of the armed forces broke into Cybersyn’s operations room and smashed up the slides of graphs—not only because it was Allende’s creation, but because the idea of an electrocardiogram of the economy just seemed a bit weird. Third-wave economics is still unusual, but ever less odd.
https://www.economist.com/letters/2021/11/13/letters-to-the-editor
The connection you made between the value of real-time information andSalvador Allende’s Project Cybersyn is a reminder of a lost opportunity. One ofAllende’s principal advisers when he was president of Chile was Staff ord Beer, avisionary cyberneticist, then at Manchester Business School, who came up withthe pioneering viable system model. Some of us were not entirely sure aboutStaff ord’s connection with reality, but that was our mistake. Had Allende livedon we might now be much further ahead in this burgeoning fi eld of analysis andadministration. Still, better late than never.
tony eccles
London
Systems Approaches for Accelerating the SDGs and Building Back Better Wed, Nov 17, 2021 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT
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| Wed, Nov 17, 2021 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT |
The SDGs address some of the most fundamental issues that are at stake for systems transformation in the context of tackling the global challenges of our time. These issues require action-oriented systemic interventions, but the SDGs are not systemic by design. As we approach the mid-term of the implementation of the United Nations Agenda 2030, we would like to pause and reflect while asking this question: “How can systems approaches help accelerate the achievement of the SDGs in the post-pandemic context for building back better?” Therefore, the purpose of this event is to discuss the challenges and explore potential pathways for transformation to embed systems approaches into the (re)design, implementation and evaluation of the SDGs, so as to accelerate progress in the achievement of the United Nations Agenda 2030. This online event is jointly organized by a group of academic partners: EADA Business School, University of Hull’s Centre for Systems Studies, Presencing Institute, Blue Marble Evaluation and Ethos of Management Consulting with the support of the United Nations Development Coordination Office.
“systems thinking” Weekly update ⋅ November 11, 2021 NEWS
Google Alert – “systems thinking” – benjamin.taylor@redquadrant.com – RedQuadrant Mail
I have a google alert for ‘systems thinking’ and normally, I pick out the most relevant pieces – and often it’s rather simplistic takes in marketing or generally vague aspirational pieces. Today’s update was particularly rich though – so here they all are.
| “systems thinking”Weekly update ⋅ November 11, 2021 | ||
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| Cassie Bingham presents systems thinking to UVUSA – THE REVIEWUVU ReviewCassie Bingham presented to UVUSA on systems thinking and its role in creating social change, incroporating houselessness in Salt Lake City.Flag as irrelevant | ||
| Creating change together | RSA Replay – YouTubeYouTubeCreating change together: relational systems thinking and Indigenous knowledgeFaced with the urgent challenges of climate change and inequality, …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| The ocean has life-giving power. Is systems thinking the key to protecting it? | The SpectatorThe SpectatorA resource of clean energy; a producer of much of our oxygen; a regulator of climate; home for millions of different interrelated types of life from …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| Optimizing Sustainable Groundwater Management Calls for a System Thinking Approach …Inter Press ServiceSystems thinking provides an opportunity to understand how groundwater systems function and react to anthropogenic influences, thereby enhancing …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| Key lessons in health systems science that pre-meds should know | American Medical AssociationAmerican Medical AssociationHow systems thinking applies to health care. Practicing medicine today is so much more than the interaction between you and the patient sitting in …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| Systems Change for the Commons – Stanford Social Innovation ReviewStanford Social Innovation ReviewTo go beyond easy solutions, systems thinking asks questions about scale and complexity: What approaches can help achieve collective impact in …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| Lindsey Naganuma | GreenbizGreenBiz… and sustainability project assistant at SERA Architects, is focused on process-based design and systems thinking driven by building research.Flag as irrelevant | ||
| What if we treat homelessness like a pandemic? – The ConversationThe ConversationAs a social innovation designer, my research, teaching and practice focus on systems thinking and understanding and designing socially innovative …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| 4 reasons why management curriculum needs makeover in post-Covid era – Education Today NewsIndia TodayConsequently, future managers must be equipped with skills in systems thinking, data-backed business storytelling, business analytics, …Flag as irrelevant | ||
| Supply chain bottleneck – YouTubeYouTubeSupply Chain Systems Thinking. Ashish Mendiratta. Ashish Mendiratta. •. 30K views 5 years ago · What is logistics? Warehouse systems from design …Flag as irrelevant | ||
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| Dialogue 2: Friends or foes? Theory of change, systemic design (thinking), and … – RSD SymposiumRSD SymposiumFoundations may be espoused in systems thinking, cybernetics or complexity science, yet that appreciation for ways in which wicked problems in the …Flag as irrelevant |
NOV 21 ASC Series – Against the Zoom Fatigue: A Cybernetic Picnic by American Society for Cybernetics Following 132 followers Free Actions and Detail Panel Share this event Register Event Information As the zoom fatigue spreads, we dream the dream of a dream in virtual lands. Come join us for a cybernetic picnic on the wonder.me platform. About this event ASC Speakers Series: Cybernetics and humans’ knowing Abstract As the zoom fatigue spreads, we dream the dream of a dream in virtual lands. Come join us for a cybernetic picnic on the wonder.me platform. Picnic blankets have been prepared for you. There is a fun palace blanket, a blanket with otters, a west coast blanket, a magic blanket, and many more. Choose yours! Other people will join. Be advised, entering the virtual lands is not entirely free. There is one obstruction. You have to bring with your virtual self two virtual cybernetic objects. Choose wisely. For further information about the objects and the picnic schedule, please see this link: https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/asc-picnic Technicalities: A Cybernetic Picnic will take place on the wonder.me platform. Unfortunately, wonder will not run on a tablet or phone. Participants will need to have either the edge or google chrome browser installed on a computer. No other browser will work. No other software is needed. The computer should have a camera, a microphone, and audio output. Participants will be asked to create an account when they connect to the wonder.me platform for the first time. They will also be asked to provide an initial very short description of their cybernetic objects, a maximum of 60 characters.
ASC Series – Against the Zoom Fatigue: A Cybernetic Picnic Tickets, Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
ASC Series – Against the Zoom Fatigue: A Cybernetic Picnic
November 21, 2021, 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST
As the zoom fatigue spreads, we dream the dream of a dream in virtual lands. Come join us for a cybernetic picnic on the wonder.me platform.
Picnic blankets have been prepared for you. There is a fun palace blanket, a blanket with otters, a west coast blanket, a magic blanket, and many more. Choose yours! Other people will join.
Be advised, entering the virtual lands is not entirely free. There is one obstruction. You have to bring with your virtual self two virtual cybernetic objects. Choose wisely.
For further information about the objects and the picnic schedule, please see this link: https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/asc-picnic
Technicalities:
A Cybernetic Picnic will take place on the wonder.me platform. Unfortunately, wonder will not run on a tablet or phone. Participants will need to have either the edge or google chrome browser installed on a computer. No other browser will work. No other software is needed. The computer should have a camera, a microphone, and audio output.
Participants will be asked to create an account when they connect to the wonder.me platform for the first time. They will also be asked to provide an initial very short description of their cybernetic objects, a maximum of 60 characters.
Here is a brief video explaining how the wonder.me platform works
Participants BiosIannis Bardakos
Iannis Bardakos is a hunter-gatherer of forms and non-localities manifesting as an artist and a researcher of digital noetic analogue and vegetal technologies. Born in Athens, Greece, studied Mathematics, Philosophy, Applied and Fine Arts. He got involved in the praxis of art with hybrid media projects, animated films, interactive installations, cross-media practical and speculative research as an artist, director, and producer. Iannis is an educator, academic and aesthetics explorer, currently in a nonlinear oscillation between Athens, Paris and Shanghai. He is a member of the Editorial Organism of the Technoetic Arts journal.
Claudia Jacques
A Brazilian-American interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and researcher, Claudia Jacques de Moraes Cardoso holds an MFA in Computer Art (School of Visual Arts, NY) and a PhD in Integrative Art with a focus on Interactive Art. Inspired by Roy Ascott and Søren Brier, she researches space-time experiences in the user-information-interface relationship through the lens of Cybersemiotics. She is a member of the Editorial Organism of the Technoetic Arts journal and serves as Art+Web Editor for Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Jacques teaches studio, digital and communication arts, and her studio is in Ossining, NY.
Claudia Westermann
Claudia Westermann is an artist and architect and Senior Associate Professor in Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She holds postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Media Art and obtained a PhD in Integrative Arts from CAiiA, Planetary Collegium, supervised by Prof. Roy Ascott. Her work has been exhibited and presented widely internationally at conferences and exhibitions. She is a member of the Editorial Organism of Technoetic Arts and sits on the Executive Board of the American Society for Cybernetics as part of Members-at-Large.
Further information:https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/asc-picnic
What the physics of crowds can tell us about the tragic deaths at Astroworld [UPDATED] 8 people were killed and 25 were hospitalized in a crush during Travis Scott’s set. JENNIFER OUELLETTE – 11/9/2021, 1:04 AM
What the physics of crowds can tell us about the tragic deaths at Astroworld [UPDATED] | Ars Technica
Systems convening: its role in the spread of innovation and improvement – with Diane Ketley Author of the new NHS Horizons publication ‘Leading the Spread and Adoption of Innovation and Improvement: A Practical Guide’ Diane Ketley will share the key role played by systems convening in this change and innovation work. Get Involved Communities of Practice Leadership Development Programme Q Visits Q Exchange Network Weaving: learning series Journals and Learning Resources QI Connect WebEx series Upcoming events Past events Your events Add your event Live streaming and webinar tools Resources Your resources Add your resource Report: The role of improvement during the response to COVID-19 Supporting local learning 11 Nov 2021 16:00 – 17:00
Systems convening: its role in the spread of innovation and improvement – with Diane Ketley | Q Community
Relational Systems Thinking: A Conversation with Melanie Goodchild Tue, November 23 4:00pm – 5:00pm GMT Meeting Add to Calendar Meeting Link Going Maybe Not Going 29 members are going Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/sinetwork Learning about systems thinking is one thing. Living in the world of systems thinking is a totally different thing. Please join us for tea and conversation with Melanie Goodchild, an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar and a moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations in Ontario, Canada. We will explore Relational Systems Thinking, the nexus and the sacred space between Indigenous place-based wisdom and Western science-based abstract knowledge, how the two opposite knowledge systems can peacefully co-exist and dance together, and why both are needed to enable the practice of awareness-based systems change and deal with complex problems facing humanity and Mother Earth. The conversation will start with a tea service led by Sly from the Turtle Island Institute, an Indigenous social innovation think and do tank and a teaching lodge. So please have your tea ready when you join the session. The session will be facilitated by Joanne Dong from the Si Toronto Hub.
Relational Systems Thinking: A Conversation with Melanie Goodchild | Si Network
Tue, November 234:00pm – 5:00pm GMTMeetingAdd to CalendarMeeting LinkGoingMaybeNot Going
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/sinetwork
Learning about systems thinking is one thing. Living in the world of systems thinking is a totally different thing. Please join us for tea and conversation with Melanie Goodchild, an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar and a moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations in Ontario, Canada.
We will explore Relational Systems Thinking, the nexus and the sacred space between Indigenous place-based wisdom and Western science-based abstract knowledge, how the two opposite knowledge systems can peacefully co-exist and dance together, and why both are needed to enable the practice of awareness-based systems change and deal with complex problems facing humanity and Mother Earth.
The conversation will start with a tea service led by Sly from the Turtle Island Institute, an Indigenous social innovation think and do tank and a teaching lodge. So please have your tea ready when you join the session.
The session will be facilitated by Joanne Dong from the Si Toronto Hub.
Systems Thinking for Transformational Innovation – Meetup Event by Si London Hub Better Space, The Ray Building, 127 Farringdon Road Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (your local time)
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Coping with a complex messy world: Education for the 21st century and beyond Critical Thinking—surfacing and rebutting fallacious arguments/claims–is one of the most important skills in dealing with Wicked Messes. Ian Mitroff
Coping with a complex messy world: Education for the 21st century and beyond – NationofChange
source:
The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic — SFI Press
COVID-19 is the virus that proved the fragility of the world. It took only the simplest form of life to shake the connectivity and dependency of society. This book is a real-time record and recommendation from a community of complexity scientists reacting to the pandemic. Through nontechnical articles, interviews, and discussions spanning the early days of the pandemic through the fall of 2021, researchers seek ways to stay responsive to complexity when every force conspires toward simplicity. The Complex Alternative encompasses immunology, epidemiology, psychology, inequality, and collapse. It is an effort to preserve perspective at a time when partiality seeks dominion.
Edited by David C. Krakauer and Geoffrey West, this book features the thoughts of more than sixty members of the Santa Fe Institute’s research community on the future of complexity science and the broader significance of science in the twenty-first century.
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The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic — SFI Press
h/t Mikael Seppala
TRANSITIONS HUB Policy Lab FULL CLIMATE-KIC SITE About Us Policy Lab Knowledge Library Collaborations Contact Us About the Lab Welcome to the Policy Lab, a space for knowledge development that enables science-policy-practice interface on system thinking and transitions.
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they also produced:
Handbook Challenge-led system mapping: A knowledge management approach (18 May 2020) https://transitionshub.climate-kic.org/publications/challenge-led-system-mapping-a-knowledge-management-approach/
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