Journal Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae

ISSN 1346-0862

ISSN-Digital 1346-0447

Date Issued 2006-09-28

Author(s)

Schwaninger, Markus 

Abstract

The purpose of this contribution is to give an overview of the origins and further developments of Organizational Cybernetics, its transdisciplinary nature and its links to different areas of science, i.e., both natural sciences and the humanities.

The Evolution of Organizational CyberneticsJournalScientiae Mathematicae JaponicaeISSN1346-0862ISSN-Digital1346-0447Typejournal articleDate Issued2006-09-28Author(s)Schwaninger, Markus AbstractThe purpose of this contribution is to give an overview of the origins and further developments of Organizational Cybernetics, its transdisciplinary nature and its links to different areas of science, i.e., both natural sciences and the humanities.

The Evolution of Organizational Cybernetics

https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/entities/publication/ab1a813e-ed06-4267-9a18-13f5bb93fb2f/details

also at

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/36381704_The_Evolution_of_Organizational_Cybernetics

[Only just come across this though it’s not very active in recent years – found it because the titular Eve Mittleton-Kelly spoke at a Systems Innovation even https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPa_hNN5cGk]

The EMK Complexity Group has been working for over 20 years, with organisations in the private and public sectors to address practical complex problems. In the process it has developed a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods.

About | EMK Complexity Group

http://emk-complexity.org/about/

Projects (appear to be quite outdated) http://emk-complexity.org/projects/

Publications http://emk-complexity.org/publications/

YouTube channel – nothing new for six years but / and a great selection of absolutely core complexity people including most of the big names: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaY7I2J4X_0dMyndQSqma2g

Biography, complexity guide, complexity links http://emk-complexity.org/guide/

 Middleton Hall, Hull, HU6 7RX

 Tue 19th March 2024 6:00PM

What are humans? The question almost never asked (and never answered) by anyone

Anthropologists and sociologists (at least) might be expected to have attempted an answer to the question ‘What are humans?’. But they have not. It is a vaunting, daunting question, but it is worth exploring, even if the exploration is frustrating. This lecture looks at the question through a number of lenses, suggests the least unsatisfactory answer, and goes on to ask what this answer means for the way that we should live as individuals and the way we should structure our societies. 

Event Details

Starts at 6:00PM

Location

Middleton Hall, Hull, HU6 7RXC

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hull/middleton-hall/the-centre-for-systems-studies-annual-mike-jackson-lecture/2024-03-19/18:00/t-earqqam

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For anyone who like me was ignorant of Charles Foster, but too ashamed to ask, Dr Mike C Jackson OBE wrote about him here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/systems-thinking-david-attenboroughs-life-our-planet-jackson-obe/

and here

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358467627_Systems_Thinking_’The_Imagination_Machine’_’Sandtalk’_and_’Being_a_Human’

And here’s a podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYASK-3_zBg

Sounds fascinating!

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Evolution “On Purpose”: Teleonomy in Living Systems

Edited by

Peter A. Corning,

Stuart A. Kauffman,

Denis Noble,

James A. Shapiro,

Richard I. Vane-Wright,

Addy Pross

The MIT Press

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14642.001.0001

ISBN electronic:

9780262376013

Publication date:

2023

Evolution On PurposeTeleonomy in Living Systems | Books Gateway | MIT Press

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5634/Evolution-On-Purpose-Teleonomy-in-Living-Systems

From Hong T.M. Bui https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hong-t-m-bui-b027633a_systems-thinking-activity-7136682131254075392-_gPh/ and shared by Fred Robinson in the Systems Thinking Network LinkedIn group.

Rap4Skills 

Hip-hop & Rap

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We are a passionate team, dedicated to transforming how young generations acquire vital skills for the digital age, e.g., time management, critical thinking, design thinking, empathy, digital citizenship, budgeting, etc. We believe in the power of music, particularly rap, as an educational tool. The lyrics of these skills are in the book “Rap4Skills” published on Amazon in 2023 (www.amazon.com/Rap4Skills-Prof-H…Bui/dp/B0BYR5F9MT). We have also produced a demo on YouTube and received well-warm feedback from our students and friends (Prof Hong Bui -YouTube channel).

Our project, Rap4Skills, aims to produce songs that convey vital work and life skills and engage multiple communities to spread its impacts. Your support is paramount. By contributing, you are enabling a creative education for social inclusion and social transformation. The impact of this edutainment project will go globally.

Let’s change education together, one rap at a time!

Systems ThinkingRap4Skills 1 month ago1 month agoHip-hop & RapLikeRepostShareCopy LinkAdd to Next upMore 79 plays79 View all likes4 View all reposts2Rap4Skills 1 track1FollowReportFollow Rap4Skills and others on SoundCloud.Sign inCreate a SoundCloud accountwww.rap4skills.org/We are a passionate team, dedicated to transforming how young generations acquire vital skills for the digital age, e.g., time management, critical thinking, design thinking, empathy, digital citizenship, budgeting, etc. We believe in the power of music, particularly rap, as an educational tool. The lyrics of these skills are in the book “Rap4Skills” published on Amazon in 2023 (www.amazon.com/Rap4Skills-Prof-H…Bui/dp/B0BYR5F9MT). We have also produced a demo on YouTube and received well-warm feedback from our students and friends (Prof Hong Bui -YouTube channel).Our project, Rap4Skills, aims to produce songs that convey vital work and life skills and engage multiple communities to spread its impacts. Your support is paramount. By contributing, you are enabling a creative education for social inclusion and social transformation. The impact of this edutainment project will go globally.Let’s change education together, one rap at a time!

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Journeys of Growth and Belonging is a gathering series co-facilitated with storytellers who are affecting a shift to an alternative narrative in their communities and organizations. These stories give us a place to redirect our attention. They can teach us how to become relational activists, which means we are putting our experience with each other first. It invites us all to reclaim control of our collective well-being. As we have been connecting and exchanging ideas around ideas in Peter Block’s books Activating the Common Good and Community, what has become evident is the value in gathering and collectively identifying ways that we can put the Six Conversations and other common good protocols into practice. Our intention is to continue to share, learn together with, and inspire others throughout 2024 by hosting a diverse and multidisciplinary community of those who are actively co-creating communities, organizations, and a world that works for the common good of all. In addition to learning from the story, we will connect in small groups as a model of the very convening style we wish to see more of in the world. Join us to connect and witness the common good.

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Research Design Seminar Series

We invite you to join us in a new virtual seminar series to collaboratively explore diverse research approaches and methodologies in our study of compassionate systems and systems awareness more broadly. The aim of this series from the MIT Systems Awareness Lab is to inspire communities of practitioners and researchers to work together in considering the role of research in their own systems change work. 

From this series of research design seminars, we will iterate on research designs that our community can then build upon, refine, implement, and learn from with our partners. 

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 10:00 – 11:30 am EST “Systems Awareness Methodologies”

An exploration of how we understand and map the nested layers of the education ecosystem with Dr. Mette Miriam Boell along with Dr. Lukas Herrmann, and Dr. Lana Cook of the MIT Systems Awareness Lab.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 10:00 – 11:30 am EST

“Simulations and Game-based Learning for Youth Engagement”

A design session with Dr. Eric Klopfer, Dan Roy (MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program, Education Arcade) with Gustav Boell and Youth Ambassadors (Center for Systems Awareness)

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Thursday, January 25, 2024, 9:00 – 10:30 am EST

“Systems Intelligence of Children”

A conversation with Dr. Jean Clinton (McMaster University), Dr. Peter Senge (MIT), Jacob Martin (Dulwich College Singapore), and Charlotte Ruddy (Dulwich College Singapore)

Research Design Seminar Series

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Interactive Online Program 2024​

April 11th – June 20th for North America & Europe

8 engaging online learning and practice sessions
3 small group discussion sessions and 2 partner exercise practice sessions
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Online classroom with recordings, resources, discussion space and more.
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Systemic Design Association | January 2, 2024

Cruz & Jones: Back in the saddle

Technical difficulties meant that we missed recording RSD12 keynote talks by Shermon Cruz and Peter Jones. Futures to the rescue! The JFS Futures Community is hosting these two RSD12 talks. January 10: Shermon Cruz, Dreams & Disruptions (register now)February: Peter Jones, Ecologising the Future (TBA) The JFS Futures Community,* founded by Anisah Abdullah and Lavonne Leong, is a space for practitioners, educators, and the future-curious to connect, share, and develop teaching and learning materials. Meetings are held every month on Zoom. *The Journal of Futures Studies is a globally oriented, transdisciplinary referred journal. Its mission is to develop high-quality, futures-oriented research and thinking based on the evolving knowledge base of futures studies.

Shermon Cruz shares his experience as an inventor and co-designer with Radical Futures Unleashed: Igniting your imagination with Dreams and DisruptionsREGISTERPeter Jones presents Summer: Ecologizing the Future situated within the extraordinary future potentials for Mexico in this dynamic centuryGET NOTIFIED

Studios: Mapping Mondays

Mondays, beginning February 26, 2024. The response to the RSD12 (2023) call for maps and exhibits exceeded our capacity to programme sessions during the symposium, and contributors agreed to present maps in this series of studios presenting about four maps each. The series will consists of at least ten gatherings. Details on presenters and exhibits will be posted here for each studio as commitments are firmed up. If you are a master mapper or mapping-curious, these talks are an opportunity to discuss maps and related exhibits with the researchers.

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RSD12-Washington keynote Abby Covert

Like digital tow trucks, diagrams have been helping people feeling stuck for thousands of years. But why? Because diagrams give us superpowers. The ability to render our ideas visually helps us move through some pretty gnarly human situations. In this keynote Abby Covert, an author and information architect, takes us on a tour of five of the superpowers that make diagrams the helpful superhero of many sensemaking stories.  Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. Abby has written two popular books, How to Make Sense of Any Mess and Stuck? Diagrams Help. She currently spends her time making things that help you to make the unclear clear, many of which she makes available for free on her website, www.abbycovert.com or at accessible price points in her popular Etsy shop, AbbytheIA. In 2022, she started The Sensemakers Club where she brings together sensemakers from different walks of life to learn from one another. Abby currently lives and writes from Melbourne, Florida, where her most important job title is “Mom.”

prepared by Cheryl May | cheryl@systemic-design.org | inspired by cowboy futurism

whoa rsd12 | systemic design talks and studios

As we approach the third anniversary of the School of Cybernetics, we reflect on the incredible milestones achieved during 2023. We’re thrilled to share our journey in this celebratory overview.JanuaryHappy new year and welcome to 2023!We commenced 2023 on a high note after our School’s remarkable official launch in 2022. The new year promises numerous opportunities for our students, partners and industry professionals as we continue to create, experiment and collaborate on safe, sustainable and responsible approaches to new technological systems.FebruaryWe welcomed our fifth cohort of Master students.Our 16 students come from diverse and impressive backgrounds. As mid-career professionals, they bring a wealth of experience from various fields including teaching, army logistics, non-profits, big tech, festival direction, data analysis, Indigenous affairs, cybersecurity and business management.We co-hosted an interactive breakfast discussion along with the Paul Ramsay Foundation on the role of collective intelligence and cybernetics in changing how we think about social policy. Read >>MarchWe launched our first public-facing micro-learning full-day course.This course took a deep dive into new ways to talk productively about AI, without being beholden to existing technological narratives. It helped participants to acquire skills to think in system and gain a deep understanding of how AI fits into not just our current social order but future iterations.Maia Gould, Cybernetic Engagements Lead, Hannah Simpson, Educational Developer, and Jackie Randles, Partnerships Lead, hosted a networking lunch and workshop in Melbourne as part of the Data Informed Design (DID) Conference. Read >>AprilWe launched Cybernetic Imagination Residency program.“The Cybernetic Imagination Residency Program is a collaboration to create stories about the future that are hopeful,” Associate Professor and Cybernetic Futures Lead Andrew Meares said.On April 28, we hosted five residents who form the first two cohorts of Cybernetic Imagination Residents and officially launched the program. Read >>In light of the federal government’s announcement for long-term Trove funding, the School produced a series of vignettes, ‘AI and libraries’, which explores the role of libraries as a trusted curator, custodian of knowledge and a midwife of new ideas.The School contributed to the Australian Universities Accord Discussion Paper reviewing Australia’s ambitions, aspirations and potential in the higher education sector.The Cybernetic Imagination Residents. (L-R) Lynette Wallworth, Caroline Pegram, Angie Abdilla, Kate Crawford and Mark Thomson. Photo: Lauren SuttonMayThe School was featured on The Australian.The article authored by The Australian’s higher education editor Tim Dodd covered the School’s official launch, the exhibition ‘Australian Cybernetic: a point through time’ and the School’s mission into the future. Read >>Some other coverages of the School and school members this year:In a conversation with Brunswick’s Alice Gibb, Genevieve Bell discusses the field of cybernetics and its relevance to the 21st century. She highlights the need to embrace diverse perspectives in problem-solving and the importance of making an optimistic future through active participation. Read »During the interview with Brad Howarth for The Mandarin’s special report on AI in the public sector, Matthew Holt highlights the importance of comprehending AI in its entirety and seeing generative AI as part of the computing revolution. Read »In an interview by APAC Network, Professor Katherine Daniell explains how Cybernetics principles can help current and emerging leaders to shape our fast, smart and interconnected world. Watch here.Our School Director Genevieve Bell delivered the esteemed Ann Moyal Lecture 2023 at the National Library of Australia. She shared a new set of stories about the Overland Telegraph Line with the audience, stories that examine it as a complex cybernetic system, and the questions we must ask of any large system and its unintended consequences, regulations, impact, power, control and inequity.JuneWe launched a series of learning experiences.We launched an array of full-day non-award learning experiences to prepare organisations, workplaces and individuals for the increasingly fast-paced technological world.Student Demo Day Semester one was on, and that meant 2023 cohort was halfway through their Master program study. 16 individual projects were displayed on the day.JulyLucie in the Sky unveiled at Uncharted Territory Festival.Lucie in the Sky, a world-first dance performance blending artistry with drone technology, was unveiled at the Uncharted Territory Festival, a result of a multi-year research collaboration between the Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) and Professor Alex Zafiroglu from the School.We responded to the inquiry into the use of generative AI in the Australian Education system and to the ‘Safe and responsible AI in Australia’ Discussion Paper, Department of Industry, Science & Resources.Cybernetic Snacks made its return this year! We talked to more leading voices in the field of Cybernetics. We also celebrated the graduation of our 2022 Master students!2022 graduates. (L-R), Graeme Wallace, David Auricht, Ross Tieman, Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, Lawrence Du, Daniela Fernandez, Evan Skinner, Michelle Jasper, Amy Wardrop. Photo: Sherice Kazzi.AugustWe benefited from a series of enlightening talks.August was packed with learning and sharing. We welcomed Professor Gerald Midgley from the University of Hull to deliver a series of talks regarding his work in systems analysis and systems thinking. Read here.Professor Bill Reckmeyer delivered a captivating talk on the “Cybernetics Systems Program at San José State University: 1962-1992 – 30 Years of Innovation Education”.Staff are doing remarkable things in the world! Here are some of them:Louisa Shen, a researcher at the School, joined other ANU scholars for a fantastic film screening and discussion of Blade Runner on 18 August at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.Associate Professor Matthew Holt and Dr Safiya Okai-Ugbaje joined Tracey Spicer for a panel discussion on the basics and impacts of AI and delivered a workshop – Let’s demystify Artificial Intelligence – at the ALP fringe conference in Brisbane.Dr Safiya Okai-Ugbaje was speaking at the “See It to Be It” conference – a platform for empowerment and a celebration of diversity and inclusion in the tech world.And some of the featured pieces contributed by school members:Alex Zafiroglu – Long-term government funding for Trove at the National Library of Australia a win for all.Chris Mesiku – Enhancing Human Flourishing: The Synergy between Data and a Systems Approach.Alex Fischer – How should a robot explore the Moon? A simple question shows the limits of current AI systems.Julian Vido – No idea what it’s talking about.SeptemberGenevieve Bell announced new VC and Top 100 Innovator.Wow! This was a month with big news. Our director was announced to be the next Vice-Chancellor and President of the ANU. In addition to this celebratory news, Genevieve was also recognised on The Australian Top 100 Innovators List, which celebrates and highlights future-focused leaders and companies helping to put Australia on the map as an innovative nation.First AI and leadership learning experiences were delivered in Canberra, garnering positive feedback.OctoberMetaverse report launched at SXSW Sydney.This groundbreaking report delves into the fascinating realm of the metaverse. It dissects the metaverse’s roots and its journey to the present day and offers a cybernetic perspective on the metaverse’s potential and the pathways to shape its development. Read the reportAnother impactful research report published this month was “Designing for change”.We got exciting news within the alumni community – Mikaela Jade (2020 Master cohort) was announced 2023 Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) new fellow, along with our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Schmidt.The School has been shortlisted for the Developing Emerging Skills and Competencies Award by QS Reimagine Education through our New practitioners to shape safe, sustainable and responsible futures submission.NovemberLearning experiences on tour!We continued to deliver our learning experiences, and this time we’re taking it to Sydney and Melbourne!Master students showcased their group cyber-physical projects during the semester-two Demo Day, and this marked a wrap-up in their learning journey.We welcomed our alumni back for the inaugural Alumni Professional Development Day – a jam-packed two days of networking, learning, sharing and collaborating.Find out some of our alumni’s achievements:Jacob Sheung-Kay Choi (Master of Cybernetics, 2020 cohort) was awarded as one of Australia’s Top 40 Under 40 most influential Asian-Australians in the country! He was awarded Winner of the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards, Public Sector & Government.Glen Berman (2019 Master cohort, current PhD candidate at ANU School of Engineering) published a new paper in Big Data & Society, a preeminent journal for interdisciplinary social science research. The paper, titled Investigating hybridity in artificial intelligence research was co-authored by Glen and Dr Kate Williams at University of Melbourne and Sandra Michalska.Erika Ly (2021 Master cohort), Policy Manager at the Tech Council Australia, was interviewed by the National AI Centre about her thoughts on the future of AI. Watch here.Jake Blight (2021 cohort, and current PhD candidate at the School of Cybernetics) was appointed as the next Independent National Security Legislation Monitor. Read more.Evan Skinner (2022 cohort and PhD candidate at the School of Cybernetics) co-presented Hopeful Futures via Cybernetics and Generative AI at SXSW Sydney.Student projects on Demo Day.DecemberQS Reimagine Education Award Bronze WinnerWe are the Bronze Winner for the Developing Emerging Skills and Competencies Award by QS Reimagine Education! The QS Reimagine Education Awards celebrate and reward the world’s most successful educational innovations enhancing student learning outcomes and employability. Read more. We are going on holiday from 18 December to rest, rejuvenate and gear up for our return on 10 January 2024. We look forward to the adventures and future possibilities together in 2024!

I thought this would be an interesting exercise – having done similar on my own blog.

Top ten:

1. Tables of Soyga: the first cellular automaton? Anders Sandberg – an oddly popular post, blogged here in 2019 from a 2014 post
2. Marshall McLuhan – extensions and amputations – inspired by Aidan Ward and Philip Hellyer – super interesting stuff! (From 2019)
3. Our Theory of Change « The Berkana Institute – the two loops model: useful and mythopoetic stuff
4. Conscious Purpose versus Nature – Gregory Bateson – which I described back in 2018 as ‘very big and important’ – accurately, I think!
5. Is there an actual source for the Kurt Lewin quote “You cannot understand a system until you try to change it”? – a post which pretty much fulfils Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
6. Marshall MacLuhan’s Tetrad of media effects – second impactful visitation of MacLuhan, undoubtedly a systems | cybernetics | complexity thinker, but not in the usual canon!
7. Biocentrism – Robert Lanza – biology as the central driving science in the universe. I’m sure I thought twice whether to weblog this one or not (in 2018)
8. A schema for better understanding systems leadership and systems change – it me
9. Hospicing The Old – TheFarewellFund – Cassie Robinson – the two loops model again
10. Gregory Bateson and the Counter-Culture – Bateson again but a pretty weird take, and including an image the original bloggers had stolen from someone who stole it from Howard Silverman, so – much as I find the connections from both cybernetics and organisational development to ‘the dark side’ of cults, MK Ultra etc fascinating (and parallel to some of the military origins of some systems approaches, and then use in e.g. RAND Corp and Vietnam war ‘planning’), not a piece I would actually recommend for anyone serious – check the comments on the original blog.

I’m fascinated and intrigued, and assume that a lot of this is just accidental googlewhacks etc – there’s a clear exponetial curve with the top four running at 1,210, 1,029, 636 and 444 respectively, and the tenth at 277 visits – then another 30ish posts before the hit count drops to under 100. And I know a number of people read these posts by email.

This is the end-December 2023 monthly events mailing from SCiO.  Click on the flags or group titles below to go to the events that interest you. Please remember that you can attend online events organised by any of the SCiO groups if they are held in a language you speak/understand (and you are a member if it is a member-only meeting). Further details of events may be available by clicking on the event titles below and you can also book each event directly from the Book now text.

Note that some groups post events quite late, so it is always worth checking the website – also for changes to dates and times. Please click here to see all the events in a browser.

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The Open University are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic academic who will be able to contribute to the development and delivery of their postgraduate systems thinking in practice (STiP) distance learning provision and help lead their Level 7 Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship (STPA).

Unit :  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM);  Salary :  £45,585 to £54,395; Location :  Milton Keynes; Two Years Fixed Term with possibility of extension, Full Time; Closing Date :  11 January, 2024 – 12:00

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SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – January 2024

Mon 22 January 2024 18:30–21:00 GMT

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems and Complexity in Organisation’s members. SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. The agenda comprises a brief introduction and two speaker sessions followed by our usual ‘later in the bar’ open chat for around 30-mins after speaker sessions. 

Running a systemic intervention in Government – a new practitioners perspective – Alison Guthrie-Wrenn

Cave Drawings and Campfire Conversations: Relocalizing Creativity in your Neighbourhood – Kerry Turner

All welcome,  FREE; Online event; English  Book now

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – February 2024

Tue 20 February 2024 18:30–20:30 GMT

SCiO’s Development Event offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO members Development Events are both for members who are just starting out on a journey to explore Systems Thinking approaches, and for those who have many years of exploration and practice.

Members only; FREE; Online event; English  Book now

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SCIO-NL monthly meeting (live in Vianen and in Dutch)

Fri 12 January 2024 11:30–15:00 CET

SCIO-NL komt elke 2e vrijdag van de maand live bijeen in Vianen (Hagenweg 3c). Er staan geen vaste onderwerpen op de agenda (daarvoor organiseren we specifieke andere meetings), maar de ervaring leert dat er altijd wel een interessant gesprek op gang komt over een systemisch onderwerp. Toegankelijk voor iedereen die de jaarlijkse fee voor de live-bijeenkomsten (€50,-) hiervoor betaald. En voor gasten. Neem contact op via ed@doitogether.nl als je interesse hebt, maar nog geen lid van de club bent.

Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; Restricted; FREE; Dutch Book now

SCIO-NL monthly meeting (live in Vianen and in Dutch)

Fri 9 February 2024 11:30–15:00 CET

SCIO-NL komt elke 2e vrijdag van de maand live bijeen in Vianen (Hagenweg 3c). Er staan geen vaste onderwerpen op de agenda (daarvoor organiseren we specifieke andere meetings), maar de ervaring leert dat er altijd wel een interessant gesprek op gang komt over een systemisch onderwerp. Toegankelijk voor iedereen die de jaarlijkse fee voor de live-bijeenkomsten (€50,-) hiervoor betaald. En voor gasten. Neem contact op via ed@doitogether.nl als je interesse hebt, maar nog geen lid van de club bent.

Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; Restricted; FREE; Dutch Book now

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Open lezing Miguel Pantalon: Toolkit: The power of Meta Causal Loop Diagrams, applied to the circular economy.

Tue 9 January 2024 18:00–20:00 CET

The systemic toolkit is comprehensive. A causal loop diagram occupies a special place among them. Indeed, it helps to name the specific dynamics in contexts by exploring the dynamic properties associated with our concepts and critically questioning the positive and negative feedback mechanisms. In spring 2023, a working group led by Miguel Pantalon set about applying causal loop diagramming to the broad domain of circular economy, and more specifically the food system. This led to surprising insights that had hitherto remained beyond the scope of policymakers. But at the same time, it was an … Read more

All welcome; FREE; Online event; Dutch & English Book now

Open lezing Pieter Buteneers: Hoe systemisch denkt Chat GTP?

Tue 12 March 2024 18:00–20:00 CET

In deze sessie willen we het debat openen rond “hoe systemisch ‘denkt’ ChatGPT?”. Dat ChatGPT de wereld zal veranderen is duidelijk. Wat nog niet duidelijk is, is hoe groot deze impact zal zijn. Als topexpert in chatbots zal Pieter inzichten verschaffen in wat de impact werkelijk is, maar ook in hoe ChatGPT leert en evolueert. We zullen inzoomen op hoe dit organisaties en werk zal transformeren of veranderen. Daarbij staan een aantal vragen centraal. Kan ChatGPT met een overvloed aan info waar het accent niet systemisch van natuur is, toch systemische rijkheid brengen? Wat betekent dit nu echt? Wat zijn daarbij de begrenzingen? Hoe kan dit verder evolueren, voorbij de beperkingen?

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Systeemistä vaikuttavuutta organisaatioiden muutokseen ja kehittämiseen

Tue 30 January 2024 16:00–17:30 EET

Törmäätkö usein haasteisiin organisaation kehittämisessä? Muuttuuko ympäristö nopeammin kuin suunnitelmasi? Ajautuvatko eri kehittämistoimet törmäyskurssille? Mistä lähteä liikkeelle laajempaan muutokseen? Puuttuuko muutokselta riittävä yhteinen näkemys? Systeemiajattelu ja systeemimenetelmät ovat enenevässä määrin organisaatioiden lukutaitoa. Ne tarjoavat organisaatioiden kehittämiseen kokonaisvaltaisen näkökulman ja auttavat muovaamaan vuorovaikutussuhteita osa-alueiden välillä. Olemme perustamassa Suomeen laaja-alaista organisaatioissa sovellettavan systee… Read more & in English

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   SCiO Ireland

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Alex Vikoulov

Futurist | Evolutionary Cyberneticist | Philosopher of Mind | Author | Filmmaker

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Alex Vikoulov: Cybernetic Theory: Information Physics, Quantum Cosmology, Simulation Metaphysics

https://www.alexvikoulov.com/2023/10/cybernetic-theory-information-physics-quantum-cosmology-simulation-metaphysics.html?fbclid=IwAR3K9gJylFDp8FocqHvJdgMRaxpy54mfSmVzDIeC-NoetcT9wAcg45zSbqU

ISSN : 2277 – 548X (Online) ; 2320 – 8430 (Print)

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International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics ( IJCI) i

International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics ( IJCI)

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Last weekend, I launched my new children’s book, APART, TOGETHER  at the Silver Unicorn bookstore.  (Thank you Casey Robinson, and the enthusiastic staff at this small but mighty bookshop in Acton, Massachusetts. You made this earnest but relatively unknown children’s book author, feel like royalty!)

Using Rhyme to Encourage Early Systems Thinking? Yes, You Can! – Linda Booth Sweeney

Using Rhyme to Encourage Early Systems Thinking? Yes, You Can!