…talking of interestingly styled web pages, though this one is less extreme and run by the eminent Alexander Riegler, as is the journal Radical Constructivism, there’s a lot here…

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The Key to Radical Constructivism

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https://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/index.html

COGNITION Humberto R. Maturana A paper originally published in: Hejl, Peter M., Wolfram K. Köck, and Gerhard Roth (Eds.) Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1978, pp. 29-49.  

Maturana (1978b): Cognition

This from http://www.enolagaia.com/index.html

And I *must* stop and observe how this website (apparently 2001-2011) from Randall Whitaker is *such* a classic of it’s time that either he just embraced it fully, or he was aiming for pastiche. I don’t know but he appears to be on LinkedIn so I will ask. Many things about this site will make your eyes widen but I believe that ‘a perfect specimine of its kind’ does apply.

Here (amongst perhaps the web’s largest collection of ‘I’m the guy’ ‘pinbacks’) is ‘the observer web: autopoeisis and enaction’:

http://www.enolagaia.com/AT.html#ReadingRoom

And ‘encyclopedia autopoeitica’:

http://www.enolagaia.com/EAIntro.html

Soo much rich stuff linked from this blog post from @David Ing:

Learning about teaching: systems thinking and sustainability course in Finland

The two that caught my eye were:
http://coevolving.com/aalto/201010-cs0004/201010-cs0004-map05-ecosystems.html

Ecological complexity and scale
http://coevolving.com/aalto/201102-cs0005/201102-cs0005-map04-ecological-complexity.html

Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management? January 2008 Paul C D MillyJulio BetancourtJulioShow all 13 authorsRonald J Research Interest 956.9 Citations 1,789 Recommendations 0 new 3 Reads 15 new 3,123 See details Overview Stats Comments Citations (1789) References (30) Related research (10+) Download Save Recommend Recommend this work Follow Get updates Share Share in a message Related research Climate change – Stationarity is dead: Whither water management? Article Full-text available March 2008 Download View more Abstract The article presents the authors’ claim that the concept of stationarity, the idea that the systems for management of water fluctuate within an unchanging domain of variability, is dead. According to the authors, the idea of stationarity had ceased due to the substantial anthropogenic change of the Earth’s climate which alters the means and extremes of precipitation, evapotranspiration and rates of discharge of rivers affecting water cycle. They denote that the rational planning framework developed by Harvard University’s Water Program helps address the changing climate to manage water system.

(11) (PDF) Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

As cited frequently by Ray Ison as an era-marking observation; the finding that we can no longer assume that water system variables will maintain within historic ranges as we enter into the anthropocene.

alt link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Stationarity-Is-Dead%3A-Whither-Water-Management-Milly-Betancourt/74ed0e790c6a122d979031e525e201fe5ed2b219

Communication without Coding: Cybernetics, Meaning and
Language (How Language, becoming a System, Betrays itself)

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Systems Thinking in project management: A case study in success for the NHS webinar | APM

Systems Thinking in project management: A case study in success for the NHS webinar

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Systems Thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns rather than static ‘snapshots’. Systems Thinking is a discipline for seeing the ‘structures’ that underlie complex situations.

This presentation held on Tuesday 30 June 2020 looked at some of the principles and techniques of Systems Thinking and illustrated their practical application to a real project; the launch of a new NHS website.

The talk covered not just Systems Thinking during design, but also linked all project elements and disciplines together during project execution to deliver overall success, despite all the hurdles in its way.

NHS technology projects have a poor track record of success, but this project was delivered on time, on budget and was so effective, it won four awards, including a Queen’s award for innovation.


APM System Thinking SIG. Having joined the University of Manchester as a Visiting Lecturer in 2011, teaching project management to organisations including Rolls Royce, E-ON, AMEC and Sellafield Ltd, he teaches in parallel to his consultancy practice, and has just published a book on project success.He is a Fellow of APM and a Chartered Project Professional, active both as a member of the APM North West Branch committee, liaising with Corporate Partners, and as Secretary of the APM Systems Thinking SIG.This webinar is suitable for professionals with any level of experience.

Andrew has very kindly allowed his presented material to be made available for viewing. The webinar recording is on YouTube and also embedded below for your information.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BE34Gu_swXQ?controls=0&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apm.org.uk

 #apmsystemsthinking  #apmwebinar  #apmnorthwest

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Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference Olúfémi O. Táíwò © Melody Overstreet From The Philosopher, vol. 108, no. 4 (“What is We?”). 

Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference – Olufemi O. Taiwo

Gettig to the other side of POMO complexity – see also:

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APM Systems Thinking SIG chair interview – Certes

APM Systems Thinking SIG chair interview

20TH DECEMBER 2018

Interview with Dr Michael Emes MEng PhD MIET MAPM MINCOSE, APM Systems Thinking Specific Interest Group (SIG) chair.

Why is systems thinking important to you?
Systems thinking helps me get to grips with challenging problems. Having too narrow a focus leads to solutions that aren’t effective in the long term. I’ve learnt this from my project work, from teaching and from research.

How is systems thinking relevant to the project managers of today?
To some extent, systems thinking is part of project management’s DNA. Projects are systems of activities with critical inter-dependencies and ‘hard’ systems thinking can help to optimise projects to minimise use of resources for example. But systems thinking really adds value when you realise that the world of projects is imperfect and uncertain, not deterministic, and has a significant human dimension where ’soft’ systems thinking comes into play. Not only do tasks often take longer to complete than anticipated due to unforeseen events and re-work, but we often start projects without a clear understanding of what the project’s objectives are. Systems thinking gives us the tools to attempt both complicated projects (with many interfaces and distributed supply chains – such as building a new aircraft) and complex projects (where stakeholders don’t agree on the fundamental objectives – such as building a new runway for London or using IT to deliver improved healthcare services). Ultimately, systems thinking helps us to do a better job of managing risk and project scope.

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An Epistemological Foundation for Communication

Klaus KrippendorffFirst published: September 1984

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1984.tb02171.x

pdf: https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1560&context=asc_papers

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NAE Website – Policing as a Complex System

Santa Fe Institute@sfiscience·Jan 15“How might #policing be reengineered to achieve a substantial reduction in the use of deadly force?” Treating US policing as the decentralized #ComplexSystem it is, Brendan O’Flaherty & SFI’s @rajivatbarnard (both at @columbia_econ) write for @theNAEng:

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ARINA | TIP – The Integral Process for Working on Complex Issues

The Integral Process For Working On Complex Issues ^tm  (TIP)

Called “TIP” for short, this is a mature, research-based process for groups of any size, in any settings, to deal with thecomplex issues, questions, and decisions they must grapple with.

Its powerful effectiveness comes from its design, using critical thinking and core processes of healthy change and development. This is how it fosters healthy change and development as people work on issues of any kind. This is why TIP is rated “5” on the Scale of Public Interactions.

Its common steps and templates empower users to address any issue. This means it is replicable for use on a wide variety of issues and transportable to any setting, at any scale.  

This process can transform perspectives, assumptions, cultures, relationships, system change efforts, and therefore how public or organizational business is done. It transforms how issues are understood and addressed.  This isn’t magic. Rather, it results from many years of action research and issue analyses, and mature use of solid theory.

Full pdf: http://www.global-arina.org/Documents/TIP%20Introductory%20Booklet%202006-2007.pdf

Case study: https://integral-review.org/more-perspectives-new-politics-new-life-how-a-small-group-used-the-integral-process-for-working-on-complex-issues/

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2021 AT 8 PM UTC – 9 PM UTC

Radical Regeneration: Sacred Activism and Systems Change – A conversation with Andrew Harvey

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Andrew Harvey is a world-renowned author of more than 30 books and the Founder and Director of The Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. Harvey believes that the large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.Harvey was born in India in 1952 and lived there until he was nine years old. At the age of 21, he became the youngest person to be awarded a scholarship at All Soul’s College, England’s highest academic honor. But he soon became disillusioned with academic life and returned to India where a series of spiritual experiences initiated his spiritual journey. He has studied Buddhism, Sufism and Hinduism extensively and written many books on these subjects as well as translated the poetry of Rumi
and Kabir.Harvey speaks extensively throughout the world and has received many honors for his writings, including the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind, Body, Spirit Award.Join the conversation live on Facebook or YouTube or catch it later in our Films archive. 

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David Krakauer

I consider the many ways in which evolved information-flows are restricted and metabolic resources protected and hidden — the thesis of living phenomena as evolutionary cryptosystems. I present the information theory of secrecy systems and discuss mechanisms acquired by evolved lineages that encrypt sensitive heritable information with random keys. I explore the idea that complexity science is a cryptographic discipline as “frozen accidents”, or various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive dynamics.

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[1505.01744v1] Cryptographic Nature