[My attempt at a LinkedIn-lenght piece]

[As I was told – IIRC by Aidan Ward (https://medium.com/@aidanward), the original Club of Rome modelling work included the water cycle (and more), but that was stripped out in terms of accessibility and a ‘simpler model’ and metric]

Dougald Hine

8 Apr 2024

Five years ago, Rob Lewis stumbled on a part of the story of climate science that he had never heard about: the impact of “land change” and the role of ecosystems as active co-creators of climate, rather than passive victims of changes in the atmosphere. In this conversation, we trace the story of how this side of the story of a changing climate was eclipsed by a focus on CO2 and other industrial emissions – and we ask how this changes the binary of doom vs techno-optimism that mostly frames the public debate and the discussions within the environmental movement over climate change. Check out Rob’s work: — The Climate According to Life on Substack: https://theclimateaccordingtolife.sub… — Putting the Land Back in Climate at Resilience.org: https://www.resilience.org/stories/20… — The Silence of Vanishing Things – more of Rob’s poetry – https://www.thesilenceofvanishingthin… To watch the full recording, including Q&A, you’ll need a paid subscription to Writing Home (which is also your ticket to join us for fortnightly live sessions on Zoom): https://dougald.substack.com/subscribe Meanwhile, you can watch the first forty minutes here on YouTube.

When Trees No Longer Milk the Sky with Rob Lewis | Sunday Sessions no.3 – YouTube

h/t Will Carey in the Facebook Permaculture Climate Action! group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2046655862094973/permalink/7477152932378545

April 16, 2024

By Gabriele Bammer

Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) 3.0: An updated framework to foster expertise for tackling complex problems – Integration and Implementation Insights

von Uexküll

Jakob Johann von Uexküll – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Johann_von_Uexk%C3%BCll

Umwelt

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

• Tim Elmo Feiten

“Jakob von Uexküll’s Concept of Umwelt” by Tim Elmo Feiten (Keywords: Biology; Metaphysics; Animals)

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/jakob-von-uexkull-umwelt

Collaborating with teams to experience and think sustainably through games and participation. 

INTE.RES.T welcomes you to the GARDEN – the online platform where you can explore the power of systems thinking in games and alternate resources for your development, enlightenment, and nurturing.

IRT

https://www.irt-research.com

Hosted By Ryan B.

Details

This talk introduces “Patterns of Strategy” – a radically different approach to understanding and formulating business strategy which is built on a different paradigm to conventional strategic approaches.

We’ll take you through some of the theory, the practice and illustrate it with some examples. Patterns is “agile strategy” in two ways – first it is a dramatically faster way of developing strategy which means that you can speed up the cadence of formulation and execution. Second, it describes
a strategy as sets of manoeuvres and gives a totally different way to deal with the dynamics of strategic situations allowing the business to become more agile in its strategic environment.

The statistics on the failure of conventional strategy are shocking at 70%-98% failure rate,. We’ll look at why this is and at some of the ways in which conventional strategy is fundamentally flawed and show how Patterns provides a proven alternative.

About Patrick Hoverstadt
Patrick has worked as a consultant since 1995 with organisations of all sizes and internationally across 24 countries in the private, public and third sectors. He specialises in using systemic approaches, working mainly on strategy, organisational design and organisational change.
Patrick is the author of “Fractal Organisation”, a book on organisation design using the Viable System Model published by Wiley in 2008 which has been used used on seven masters programmes around the world. He is co-author of “Patterns of Strategy” a book on a systemic approach to strategy published by Gower in 2017, co-wrote 7 other books, and is the author of ‘The Grammar of Systems’ – a book on how to think like a systems thinker, published in 2022. He chairs SCiO the professional body for systems practitioners and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management.

Please note: This session will be recorded in speaker view.

Business StrategyBusiness Agility

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Thursday, May 23, 2024 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM BST

Online event

https://www.meetup.com/systemicagility/events/299588054

Patrick Hoverstadt: Agility in business strategy, Thu, May 23, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Haley Fitzpatrick, Haley.Fitzpatrick@aho.no, Tobias Luthe, Birger Sevaldson

Haley Fitzpatrick, Tobias Luthe, and Birger Sevaldson explore methodological plurality and integrate quantitative scientific methods with participatory gigamapping and embodied practices. This longitudinal design inquiry engaged with communities undergoing sustainability transformations across three mountain regions: Ostana, Italy; Hemsedal, Norway; and Mammoth Lakes, California. The authors identify the need for contemplative and psychological practices in systemic design that focus on inner resilience.

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https://doi.org/10.58279/v2000

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Open Access article published under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

CITATION (APA)

Fitzpatrick, H., Luthe, T., & Sevaldson, B. (2024). Methodological Pluralism in Practice: A systemic design approach for place-based sustainability transformations. Contexts—The Systemic Design Journal, 2. https://doi.org/10.58279/v2003

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https://systemic-design.org/contexts/vol2/methodological-pluralism

MICHAEL GARFIELD

APR 02, 2024

I’m honored to share a profound and soulful conversation on science and spirituality with Neil Theise, professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, discoverer of a new human organ (the interstitium), lifelong Zen meditator, and author of the superb book, Notes on Complexity.

🎋🔬🕸️ 218 – Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality

https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/218

Ruth Baxter, Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Rebecca Lawton, School of Psychology, University of Leeds

The Positive Deviance Approach

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/positive-deviance-approach/506CA2D446210E1FE76740B7F835D87C

Ontology and Antidisciplinarity

Andrew PickeringIn Andrew Barry & Georgina Born (eds.)

Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. Routledge. pp. 209 (2013)

Andrew Pickering, 9 Ontology and Antidisciplinarity – PhilPapers

https://philpapers.org/rec/PICOA

pdf:

(Inspired in a roundabout way by this exchange:)

SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312

SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312 — FOR THE WILD

https://forthewild.world/listen/sophie-strand-on-myths-as-maps-312

You’ve gotta respect that, in 1985 and 1986, the world’s leading cyberneticians got together and… made themselves a fanzine… about their favourite things!

Volume 1

Click to access Cybernetic_Vol_1_No_1_1985.pdf

Volume 2

Click to access Cybernetic_Vol_2_No_1_1986.pdf

[Well, it’s not for me, but it is a thing]

Cliodynamics (from Clio, the muse of history, and dynamics, the study of why things change with time) is the new transdisciplinary area of research at the intersection of historical macrosociology, economic history/cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the construction and analysis of historical databases.

Mathematical approaches – modeling historical processes with differential equations or agent-based simulations; sophisticated statistical approaches to data analysis – are a key ingredient in the cliodynamic research program (Why do we need mathematical history?). But ultimately the aim is to discover general principles that explain the functioning and dynamics of actual historical societies.

Cliodynamics: History as Science – Peter Turchin

Peter Turchin’s blog

https://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica

Wikipedia:

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

Journal

https://escholarship.org/uc/irows_cliodynamics

March 28, 2024

A BUSINESS ARCHITECT`S PERSPECTIVE

by Kaustuv Halder

Businesses are operating in environments that are drastically more complex than the times traditional management methods were developed for. A Systems Thinking approach to management that helps us make the transition from viewing businesses as machines to thinking of them as living organisms, from looking at the “parts” to looking at the “whole”, is considered by experts and leading organizations like OECD as the paradigm shift needed to deal with complexity. Incorporating Systems Thinking principles within Strategy, Organizational Design and Problem Solving equips leaders with the tools and perspectives needed to manage in times of complexity.

This paper presents nine key Systems Thinking principles, where each principle is framed as a management question. In addition, Kaustuv also discusses the interesting and often overlooked synergy between Business Architecture and Systems Thinking and argues why Business Architects could be champions of a Systems Thinking approach.

USING A SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT – A NECESSARY PARADIGM SHIFT? – Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal