Announcing the SySTEAM mini-conference: August 14-15, 2025!
SySTEAM’s free, two-day online mini-conference is back by popular demand! Registration is now open for all who’d like to attend this two-day Zoom event, featuring a mix of conference-style talks and group discussion related to systems education and interdisciplinary STEM/STEAM education. Sign-up today as an attendee, volunteer to be a peer reviewer for the mini-conference, or send in an abstract for consideration!
Are you interested in complexity and its relevance for leadership, management and consultancy? Are you feeling dissatisfied with the tools, techniques, maps and frameworks which only take you so far? The Complexity and Management Group at the University of Hertfordshire is offering a one-off opportunity to study for an MA by research in complexity and organisational dynamics, starting in October 25. The subject and object of your research will be what’s going on for you at work. You will be part of a group of other researchers meeting every three months for two years, 16 days a year, and learning experientially, where the dynamics of the research group are also material for study. After the MA stage there is a pathway to go on to complete the doctorate for those who want to, further developing the research that you will have done.
You will need to be prepared to read exhaustively, write reflexively, and talk with others in the group about your work until your head hurts.
The Complexity and Management Group at UH has over 25 years of experience and an international reputation for interdisciplinary research informed by insights from the complexity sciences.
Contents Preface Editor-in-Chief Editorial 4 Professor Frank Stowell 5 Articles Rethinking Boundaries to unite 11 Fragmented Schools: Systems Thinking as a Meta-School in Project Management for Addressing Existential Risks 8 Prof. Nigel Williams Processes. A View from Inside Prof. Lucia Urbani Ulivi & Primavera Fisogni 18 The Importance of Methods of Inquiry in the Digital age – a soft Systems perspective 31 Prof. Frank Stowell Living Systems and Systems Living Dr Daune West 46 Systems Thinking Applied to Environmental and Social Justice Ian Roderick 57 Mapping situations and interactions: reflections on a professional lifetime of systems thinking in practice 65 Prof. Andy Lane
What happens when we refuse the neat divisions that shape our worlds: body/mind, male/female, Black/white, professional/personal, human/AI??
The Spring 2025 issue of Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice gathers writing, poetry, video, and images that challenge the binaries that split our identities, our institutions, and our imaginations. Embedded in systemic, feminist, decolonial, and narrative practice, this issue speaks to the urgent need to rethink how we story race, gender, power, and possibility.
Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice
2025 Conference2025 Cornell University International Systems Thinking ConferenceConference Dates: May 1-2, 2025 OnlineConference Theme: Connect the Dots
Systems Community of Inquiry 
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