RESEARCH, SUSTAINABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnerships Network

Global Sustainable Futures Network (GSFN) – University College of Estate Management

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BUILT FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

Established in 2020, the Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnerships Network (GSFN) materialised out of the need to connect Global South with Global North and co-address the pressing challenges to sustainable futures through constructive partnerships.

The network is looking forward to full-fledged collaborative and interactive activities and co-creation of knowledge and practices beyond national borders and academic disciplines, contributing to achieving and realising the SDGs Agenda 2030 and beyond. The network is committed to creating collaboration/partnerships across the low-, middle- and high-income countries, reaching out through its coordinators to secure globally sustainable futures that are urgent and important.

The network has planned an engaging, interactive, inclusive, and enthusiastic networking and capacity development programme, starting from the first day of 2021.

Currently, the network comprises 700 coordinators from 101 countries. The group is inclusive and accessible for academics, scholars, like-minded, system thinkers, innovation practitioners, change-makers, and creative voices, from all disciplines who want to enable sustainable transitions for future generations in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The network aims to forge connections outside of academia through institutionalising university partnerships with governments and communities in addressing pressing challenges and transforming societies.

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Complexity Masterclass for Senior Leaders

Complexity Masterclass for Senior Leaders — COMPLEXITY UNIVERSITY

Complexity Masterclass for Senior Leaders

A concise masterclass on leading change in complex systems

3 x 2 hour sessions online | 27th October, 3rd & 10th November | $599 | limited places availableAPPLICATIONS OPENING SOON- JOIN WAITLIST

The Habermas-Luhmann Debate

The Habermas-Luhmann Debate | Columbia University Press

The Habermas-Luhmann Debate

Gorm Harste

Columbia University Press

5th European Conference on Social Network EUSN 2021 will be held in Naples on September 6-10th 2021

EUSN2021 | The 5th European Conference on Social Network; Naples, September 6-10th 2021. Tags: #EUSN2021 #EUSN21.

Call for papers: Organizing Outside Organizations

Call for papers: Organizing Outside Organizations | puntOorg International Journal

Call for papers: Organizing Outside Organizations

 2020-10-29

Organizing Outside Organizations

Guest editors:

Barbara Czarniawska – University of Gothenburg

Gianluca Miscione – University College Dublin

Elena Raviola – University of Gothenburg

Rafael Alcadipani da Silveira – EASP-FGV

Emre Tarim – Lancaster University

For any queries please contact the editors at organizing-outside@googlegroups.com

(Neo)Cybernetic Paths for an Epistemology of Digital Cultures

Open Philosophy

Open Philosophy

ISSN: 2543-8875Editor-in-chief: Graham Harman

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About this journal

Open Philosophy is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal covering all areas of philosophy. The objective of Open Philosophy is to foster free exchange of ideas and provide an appropriate platform for presenting, discussing and disseminating new concepts, current trends, theoretical developments and research findings related to the broadest philosophical spectrum. The journal does not favour any particular philosophical school, perspective or methodology.

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Call for proposals for topical issues

Open calls for papers:

• Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic: A Re-Evaluation, edited by Michael Lewin (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad) and Rudolf Meer (University of Graz) – deadline for submissions: October 31, 2021.
• (Neo)Cybernetic Paths for an Epistemology of Digital Cultures, edited by Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria) and Deniz Yenimazman (University of Bayreuth, Germany) – deadline for submissions: December 31, 2021.

Published Topical Issues:

Harish’s Notebook – My notes… Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science. Menu SKIP TO CONTENT HOME ABOUT ME FEATURED: SHORT STORIES… The Reality of Informationally Closed Entities:

The Reality of Informationally Closed Entities: | Harish’s Notebook – My notes… Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science.

How do you pratically launch & scale your entrepreneurial ecoystem?

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Chinedu Echeruo

How do you pratically launch & scale your entrepreneurial ecoystem?

Ecosystem mapping, Storytelling, Complex systems, Agent interactions. So many things to consider. Here is a framework and processes for Leaders who want to bring their local entreprenurial ecosystem to life.

#ecosystembuilding#innovation

Website

About:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/181KrMmmNaptdAfRGFCk14CAXo2WnNvtH0ITm0YfEKw4/edit

Conversation between Bobby Fishkin of CrowdDoing & Open Innovation Brazil

How Service Learning and Skilled Volunteering can Bridge Skill Gaps & Social Innovation Gaps
to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
A working paper by Bobby Fishkin & CrowdDoing, July 19 th 2019

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zAIfXVLc9hPNaiVrl9XvKlYX1iAn9cdG/view

Leveraging Micro-Leadership to Make Aspirational Goals Achievable

By Robert Fishkin

YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA

Range of projects/themes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pLENb3Z5PYzVBLLn7uM1Z48Nlm-nBOPV/view

Mapping Role Characteristics to Points of Leverage

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aQkMhoJr94fDsUNXsLnjy-t5Wx0tJaIzy6mOq2il3M0/edit#gid=0

Shared Map of CrowdDoing (a joint initiative of M4A Foundation, a US 501c3, and Reframe It, a social enterprose)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dxFKsgCpcQN0ve6Mwi9QN570pYxeMAVY6X-1CGdeS0k/edit#gid=2033176703

CrowdDoing Sub_Sections

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12y7GFbKumZBLEnHo3MQdooxeGt3YeqvEspcoBv1ydck/edit#gid=0

List of Questions for the Project Sub-sites/microsites

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DAJOPDH9yfVOB5jdMa6p9FIhcc7Z1N0xdeuf_MTtzPw/edit

GET UNDONE WITH THE UNSCHOOL

It’s Friday, which means a dose of brain-activating delicious snacks.

Last week we shared how thinking about the full system of chocolate chip cookies gave Leyla the inspiration to start the UnSchool.

This week we are all about the magic of systems thinking.

Systems thinking is the ability to see the whole before the parts, and it’s fundamental to the Disruptive Design Method.

We believe 110% that thinking in systems is the tool to help make a positive impact on the world around you.

The world is full of big messy complex social, political, and environmental problems. which are all part of bigger systems at play. In order to help disrupt the underlying issues, we need to first understood what is going on.

From climate change to the rise in racism, homelessness, child exploitation, global politics and ocean plastic waste, these problems are all part of complex interconnected systems.

By taking a systems approach, it enables you to develop a more dynamic and intimate understanding of the elements and agents at play within the problem area, so you can identify opportunities for intervention.

Tools such as systems mapping are critical to overcoming the reductive mindset we were all taught in school — a mindset that teaches us to break the world down into individual and manageable parts, rather than see the complex, interconnected whole.

This is what has led to the exploitative economy. In order to get to a circular economy, we need systems thinking.

”Problems are just unaddressed opportunities waiting for a creative minds to tackle them”. ~ Leyla Acaroglu

By taking a systems approach, we can each undo the linear and rigid mindsets that helped create the problems to begin with.

Thankfully, humans naturally have a curious and intuitive understanding of complex, dynamic, and interconnected systems. So, it’s really not that hard to rewire our thinking systems from linear to expanded, from 1-dimensional to 3-dimensional thinking.

Our Systems Thinking course is one of our most popular classes for a reason: systems thinking is a superpower that anyone can access to make change.

If you’ve already taken our Systems Thinking course, or have expertise in this area, then take a look at our advanced Systems Interventions course to learn to see critical relationships, understand feedback loops, and conduct consequence analyses. You will also establish causal relationships and gain radical insights into systems dynamics.

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Use our free Superpower Activation Toolkit to see if Systems Thinking is your superpower!

See you next week,

Warm wishes from the UnSchool Team

PS: We also applied our change-making skills in collaboration with the UN to make the FREE Anatomy of Action! Find out more about that project here >

Engineering cybernetics

Engineering cybernetics – Wikipedia

h/t to Ben Sweeting who on the CYBCOM list said:

I’ve also just come across this ‘Engineering Cybernetics’ book from the 1950s, by Qian Xuesen – available open access here: #7 – Engineering cybernetics. – Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library – and this interesting review of it: Engineering cybernetics: 60 years in the making (researchgate.net) – which says (my emphasis):

More importantly, the book shows, in the true spirit of science, that all assumptions,explicit or otherwise, must be made accountable in engineering. The turning point in the book is where Tsien goes beyond the model-based theory of servomechanisms and argues for the necessity of a new design principle for a general type of system where the properties and characteristics of the controlled system are largely unknown.

Book:

Article:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303816822_Erratum_to_Engineering_cybernetics_60_years_in_the_making

the author is this interesting character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen

see also 

https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/01/11/chris-beiser-on-twitter-the-role-that-complex-systems-theory-played-in-letting-xi-jinping-centralize-power-in-china-with-cybernetics-https-t-co-nqpxkdlnhk/

https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/10/09/the-hsue-shen-tsien-think-tank-adopting-a-systems-science-approach-to-address-complex-problems-science-aaas/

Shared by Stuart Umpleby on the CYBCOM mailing list

The European Union for Systemics (EUS) seems to have replaced the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research in  Vienna, the meetings of the Dutch Systems Group in Amsterdam, and the few Heinz von Foerster Society meetings in Vienna.  A series of meetings in Maribor, Slovenia, just south of Austria,  are continuing.  These conferences all used English.  The EUS meetings use French as much or more than English and welcome other languages, e.g., Spanish and Italian.Stuart
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:00 AM Damien Claeys <damien.claeys@uclouvain.be> wrote:

Hello to all,

Here is the latest news from the European Union for Systemics (EUS):

1. After a decade, Andrée Piecq has completed her mandate as general secretary in May 2021 and has accepted the mandate of honorary secretary-general. We thank her sincerely for her deep commitment in the development of the EUS and in the diffusion of the concepts of the systemic approach. Our learned society owes her a large tribute.

The website of the EUS has been moved to an independent server of the UCLouvain and the domain name extension .eu has been replaced by an extension .org:

• learned society website: https://www.ues-eus.org

2. We invite you to participate in the next tri-annual congress of the EUS under the direction of prof. Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos:

• theme: “Systemic Design Thinking for Creativity”
• organization: online congress, Athens, from 6 to 9 October 2021
• conference website: https://confe.hsss.eu

3. We invite you to submit your papers to the journal Acta Europeana Systemica (AES) on an OJS platform of the UCLouvain:

• double-blind review
• no publication fee for authors
• open access articles
• now permanent call for contributions
• journal website: https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/AES

Take care of yourself,

Damien Claeys

(General Secretary EUS)

Damien Claeys

Professeur

Faculté d’architecture, d’ingénierie architecturale, d’urbanisme

Institut de Recherche de Louvain pour le Territoire, l’Architecture, l’Environnement Construit

> Laboratoire Théorie des systèmes en architecture

Rue Wafelaerts, 47/51 bte B3.01.01 B-1060-Bruxelles

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Measuring Narrative Change: Understanding Progress and Navigating Complexity

Measuring Narrative Change, v2.0