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Peter Checkland recalls how a shortage of management education led him to develop his theories.

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/money-business/leadership-management/systems-explained-peter-checkland

Join us in person to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Buckminster Fuller Institute! A night of inspiration, innovation and community.

By The Buckminster Fuller Institute

Date and time

Friday, December 15 · 5 – 9pm PST

Location

Gray Area / Grand Theater, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA2665 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 United States

Buckminster Fuller Institute 40th Anniversary Celebration

Join us for a spectacular in-person event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Buckminster Fuller Institute! This is designed as an immersive experience and will not be live streamed or recorded.

We are thrilled to invite you to the Gray Area / Grand Theater on Mission Street in beautiful San Francisco, CA, USA.

This milestone celebration promises to be an unforgettable experience filled with inspiration, creativity, innovation, and special guests! We will celebrate forty incredible years of Buckminster Fuller Institute and the transformative work underway heading into our fifth decade! We’ll also have updates on current projects to reach 100 million life-centered designers, regenerate bioregions, center indigenous knowledge in design, transform financial systems, engage with regenerative AI, uplift and build capacity for design scientists, support large-scale ecological restoration and more.

The event will feature sustainable local food served throughout the evening and a cash bar.

Friday, December 15Buckminster Fuller Institute 40th Anniversary CelebrationJoin us in person to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Buckminster Fuller Institute! A night of inspiration, innovation and community.By The Buckminster Fuller Institute54 followersFollowDate and timeFriday, December 15 · 5 – 9pm PSTLocationGray Area / Grand Theater, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA2665 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 United StatesShow mapRefund PolicyContact the organizer to request a refund.Eventbrite’s fee is nonrefundable.About this event4 hoursMobile eTicketBuckminster Fuller Institute 40th Anniversary CelebrationJoin us for a spectacular in-person event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Buckminster Fuller Institute! This is designed as an immersive experience and will not be live streamed or recorded.We are thrilled to invite you to the Gray Area / Grand Theater on Mission Street in beautiful San Francisco, CA, USA.This milestone celebration promises to be an unforgettable experience filled with inspiration, creativity, innovation, and special guests! We will celebrate forty incredible years of Buckminster Fuller Institute and the transformative work underway heading into our fifth decade! We’ll also have updates on current projects to reach 100 million life-centered designers, regenerate bioregions, center indigenous knowledge in design, transform financial systems, engage with regenerative AI, uplift and build capacity for design scientists, support large-scale ecological restoration and more.The event will feature sustainable local food served throughout the evening and a cash bar.

Buckminster Fuller Institute 40th Anniversary Celebration Tickets, Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite

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 November 20, 2023  daviding

For the Relating Systems and Design RSD12 symposium on October 14, 2023, members of the Explainers subgroup of the Systems Changes Learning Circle conducted an in-person workshop on “Explaining Systems Changes Learning: Metaphors and translations” at OCADU in Toronto.

Explaining Systems Changes Learning | RSD12 | 2023-10-14 November 20, 2023 daviding 0 CommentsFor the Relating Systems and Design RSD12 symposium on October 14, 2023, members of the Explainers subgroup of the Systems Changes Learning Circle conducted an in-person workshop on “Explaining Systems Changes Learning: Metaphors and translations” at OCADU in Toronto.

Explaining Systems Changes Learning | RSD12 | 2023-10-14 – Coevolving Innovations

Vol 1 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-40332-3

Vol 2 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-40985-1

Vol 3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-40339-2

Message from Otto:

A New Concept of Advanced Systems Thinking

Highlights

• Focused on the mental processes of the systems thinker, the books introduce a paradigm
  shift in advanced systems thinking: rather than fixating attention on systems

hypostatized by the thinker on purely logical grounds, the books lay bare the thought-
form structure of the thinker’s real-time movements-in-thought that led him to

hypostatize the system in question, thus making visible the ‘absences’ in the thinker’s
thought that need to be repaired.

• By centering on the systems thinker’s own mental process and its cognitive-
  developmental structure, the books outline an assessment methodology for judging the

quality of individual system thinkers’ process in terms of the complexity and maturity of
their thinking.

• Thereby, they deliver the foundation for empirical studies in systems thinking as a part of
  studies in adult cognitive development; the books also lay the foundation for teaching
  advanced systems thinking in a self-reflective manner, not primarily for “solving
  problems” (which are always a function of the thinker’s thought maturity), but for
  measuring and boosting the thought complexity a thinker is presently capable of.
• The books thus amount to an epistemology of advanced systems thinking that highlights
  the latter’s limitations when it is conducted in purely logical terms, simultaneously
  showing that logical thinking, (in Western cultures) mature at 25 years of age, naturally
  evolves into dialectical thinking over the lifespan.
• The books are based on Laske’s Dialectical Thought Form Framework (DTF, put in place in
  2000), which is continued to be taught in international cohorts at the
  Interdevelopmental Institute (https://interdevelopmentals.org/services/).
  Three New Books on Advanced Systems Thinking
  by Otto Laske, known as Inventor of New Thinking
  Tools, have appeared at Springer

Volume 1: Approaching Real-World Complexity with Dialectical Thinking (ISBN 978-3-031-40331-6)
Volume 2: How to Measure and Boost Thought Maturity (ISBN 978-30031-40984-4)
Volume 3: Manual of Dialectical Thought Forms (ISBN 978-3-031-40338-5)

• The books spell out and interpret validated empirical outcomes of adult-developmental
  research in cognitive development over the life span, — a discipline now 25 years old but
  curiously kept out of the systems thinking mainstream which therefore lacks a reflexive
  meta-level.
• The books articulate the pedagogical foundations of 20 years of undergraduate and
  graduate instruction in advanced systems thinking at the Interdevelopmental Institute
  (IDM; www.interdevelopmentals.org), delivered in international cohorts in English,
  French, German, and Spanish.
• From a historical perspective, the books fuse insights of the Frankfurt School and the
  Harvard Kohlberg School as well as integrate cutting-edge insights deriving from R.
  Bhaskar’s and M. Archer’s Dialectical Critical Realism.
  Having proven their worth in practice, they are ready to be used for teaching and examinations
  at colleges, universities, think tanks, and in programs of executive and team development.
  I would be happy to mentor your staff in the novel subject of the three books.
  Sincerely,
  Otto Laske, Founder and Director, Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)
  otto@interdevelopmentals.org

For more detailed information on the contents of the books, go to

Determinist Reductionism Sucks – Yet Again

What, Why & How do we Know ?

Getting to the bottom of reductionism – is it all just physics in the end?

By Kevin Mitchell – August 17, 2022

http://www.wiringthebrain.com/2022/08/getting-to-bottom-of-reductionism-is-it.html

[Shared on the American Cybernetics Society email list by Paul Pangaro]

Eames Office

uploaded 18 Oct 2013

The principle of feedback — the cycle by which performance is measured, evaluated against desired results, and corrected for future performance. Made for IBM, Introduction to Feedback was one of a series of films proposed by the Eames Office to explain computers and the principles underlying their operation. Script by Charles Eames Narrated by Vic Perrin, Music by Elmer Bernstein 10 minutes, 40 seconds.

Other videos on this Eames Office YouTube account are well worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/@eamesoffice/videos

Edited by Steffen Roth, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kristof van Assche, and Harry F. Dahms

Virtual Special Issue of Futures onSimulation and dissimulationEdited by Steffen Roth, Jari Kaivo-oja, Kristof van Assche, and Harry F. Dahms

Release | Special Issue | Simulation and dissimulation | Dr. Steffen Roth

Sonja Blignaut

We tend to talk about complexity as something “out there”. A wicked problem to solve, a mess to order, a source of overwhelm and confusion to eliminate. And while it is all these things, it is also our home territory. Our habitat. And it IS us.

We are complexity walking.Sonja Blignaut·Following4 min read·3 hours ago25Photo by Ryoji Iwata on UnsplashWe tend to talk about complexity as something “out there”. A wicked problem to solve, a mess to order, a source of overwhelm and confusion to eliminate. And while it is all these things, it is also our home territory. Our habitat. And it IS us.

We are complexity walking.. We tend to talk about complexity as… | by Sonja Blignaut | Nov, 2023 | Medium

https://sonjablignaut.medium.com/we-are-complexity-walking-39a5116cfac0

Alexander Beiner

NOV 15 • 1HR 0M

How Reality Learns with Nora BatesonA podcast interview with Nora Bateson about her new book ‘Combining’

How Reality Learns with Nora Bateson – by Alexander Beiner

https://beiner.substack.com/p/how-reality-learns-with-nora-bateson#details

 Table of Contents

1. Step Into It
2. Making the case for System Innovation
3. Seeing the System
4. Working on Three Levels
5. Getting into The Washing Machine
6. The Keys that Unlock Systems
7. Be Part of a Movement
8. Closing the System Innovation Gap
9. Further reading

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Authors

Jennie Winhall

lCharles Leadbeater

Building Better Systems orginal — The System Innovation Initiative

https://www.systeminnovation.org/article-building-better-systems

Posted by: vanessalefton and alexfleming, 15 November 2023 – Categories:Policy Lab

This blog launches “Systemic” – a game that simulates how policy-making systems function and possible shifts that can be made to improve policy outcomes. Systemic has been inspired by the world of board games, and was co-created by Policy Lab and Matteo Menapace, the co-author of ‘Daybreak’. It forms part of our learning from a project aiming to shift complex systems around multiple disadvantage with the Changing Futures Programme. Serious games are one of Policy Lab’s new experimental methods, set out in the launch of our experimental innovation strategy last year.   

Watch skilled academic conversations and multidimensional discussions in action. Develop awareness of how thought diversity and controversial perceptions and opinions become the fertile starting points for deep dives into more insightful and beneficial discussions.

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I’m creating a systems-thinking starters kit 🌟 What are your favourite systems-thinking tools and resources? Here are some of mine (I actually use) 👇

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