ISSS 2023 in South Africa 17-23 June 2023
Loads of info about the conference. Including giraffes! An experience of a lifetime!
Travelling to the KNP
What you need to know
Conference fees
Proposed Itinerary
Call for papers
STiP workshop detail
Notes on Registration process
Risk managemen
Message for the ISSS BoD
Detail of a External Organisation that can assist with flight bookings etc
Queries
e-mail to conference@isss.org
Message from the President Dear Reader,
It is our pleasure to publish our updated special edition of the ISSS newsletter. The purpose of this special issue is to provide information on our 2023 conference. ISSS2023 is our first face-to-face conference after the Covid-19 pandemic, and we are all looking forward to meeting up with our ISSS friends in the Kruger National Park in South Africa from 17-23 June 2023.The theme of the conference is ‘Systems Practice for Professions.’ Due to the unique nature of the venue, the closing date for registration is March 15th, 2023.
The conference takes the form of a multi-event with flexible participation. From 17-19 June, participants can join a pre-conference Writing Retreat, or use the time and facilities as an informal meeting space. Various organisations already indicated that they want to make use of these days to come together before joining the main conference from 19-23 June.We also offer a Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP) formal workshop from 17 June with full-day sessions on 17-19 June and dedicated activities during the main conference. More details follow later in this newsletter in the announcement of the STiP workshop.
The theme, Systems Practice for Professions, is central to of our keynote addresses. Two are by past-presidents of the ISSS. Prof Gerald Midgley, Prof Ray Ison. Other keynote speakers include Dr Rachel Lilley and Dr Louis Klein. They are known for their extensive work in Systems Practice and will present their work. More keynote addresses will be confirmed and communicated on the conference web page linked to isss.org. We also value contributions on underlying theory guiding systems practice. More detail follows in the call for papers which is part of this newsletter.
The conference team will ensure that you have a wonderful experience in the Kruger National Park. We included game drives and cultural activities in the programme to make this the trip of a lifetime that will live up to your expectations.
In this newsletter we hope to provide you with all the information you need to make this a memorable integrative experience!
Roelien GoedeLink
Author Archives: antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows (Book Summary) | Sloww
An Intro to Systems Thinking: “Thinking in Systems” by Donella Meadows (Book Summary)BY KYLE KOWALSKI
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows (Book Summary) | Sloww
Carl Bergstrom Presents “The crisis of human collective decision-making in a social media world” January 31, 4-5pm, Michigan University, USA
Carl Bergstrom“The crisis of human collective decision-making in a social media world” A Complex Systems Public Event
https://lsa.umich.edu/cscs/news-events/all-events.detail.html/103361-21807096.html
Carl Bergstrom Presents “The crisis of human collective decision-making in a social media world” January 31, 4-5pm.
Carl Bergstrom
“The crisis of human collective decision-making in a social media world” A Complex Systems Public EventCarl Bergstrom has published extensively on COVID, and misinformation (and COVID misinformation!) in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and innumerable scientific journals. He was also a frequent guest on news programs especially during the early times of the pandemic.
Dr. Bergstrom is also an avid birder with a special fondness for corvids.
Join us Tuesday, January 31 at 4-5pm in Rackham Amphitheatre for this special talk. Reception to follow in Assembly Hall.
Please visit the event listing for abstract, details, accessibility and virtual option. Talk will be 4-5pm, followed by a light reception.Register to Attend HereAdd to Google Calendar
Review of Net Zero – GOV.UK
Strong calls for systems thinking
Independent report
Review of Net Zero
An independent review of the government’s approach to delivering its net zero target, to ensure that it is pro-business and pro-growth. From:Department for Business, Energy & Industrial StrategyPublished26 September 2022Last updated13 January 2023 — See all updates
Review of Net Zero – GOV.UK
Metaphorum Conference (20 years after Stafford’s passing): Viability through emancipation – or the hidden agenda of viability, Manchester, UK: 08 – 10 June, 2023
Emancipation is an important landmark of progress in our social systems. The challenge is how to set ourselves free and yet maintain our relationships to work together effectively and bring about the systemic changes we so urgently need? For us to truly emancipate ourselves and flourish, we also need to be viable – individually and collectively. Viability is the capacity to have and maintain autonomous, conscious, responsible, and independent existence. Emancipation implies a need to rethink the intended purpose of human organisation – to define new adaptive pathways towards a flourishing future for all.
In our conference we seek to review how Beer’s original ideas, among other systems approaches, offer clear criteria and tools to facilitate emancipatory systemic changes. We also invite people to reflect on the barriers and obstacles to emancipation and to systemic change. Thus, we welcome presentations and workshops that explore:
The notion of emancipation emerging from individual and collective changes of cognition, awareness, and perception, and being an engine for viability.
The notion of viability as the capacity to continue existing – or to cease to exist in a given moment of time. This contributes to the ultimate goal of preserving the integrity of the ecosystems and communities to which we belong and with which we co-evolve.
The barriers to emancipation as they have been experienced and understood in different interventions – as well as a reflection on how to overcome them.
The notions of co-evolution and perpetual change – hence the need for requisite experimentation as a core strategy for viability and resilience.
The characteristics of systemic change, and ways of designing experiments to promote intentional transitions.
The unpredictable and surprising routes through which systemic innovations proliferate over time.
Examples of applications of a range of approaches aimed at facilitating systemic change in different organisational contexts.
Experiences of seeds of change sown in the past, which contributed to the awakening of consciousness and desire for change, and over time produced new systems configurations.
The need to revisit the toolbox for viability – Beer’s visionary theories and tools for the development of more robust and resilient self-governing systems.
Open research paths for further developing the viability theory to support emancipatory systemic change.
Dates
Conference dates: 08 – 10 June, 2023
Register by: 01 May, 2023
Deadlines:
Abstract and workshop submission by 20 March, 2023.
Confirmation of acceptance two weeks after submission.
Abstract guidelines:
The abstract must be a maximum of 200 words. It should explain the topic and focus of the talk, the theory/and or methodology and tools used and the key lessons learned.
A workshop proposal must be a maximum of 300 words and should specify the topic, methodology, expected outcome, number of participants, time (maximum of 90 minutes), space and equipment required.
Papers will be included in a special issue of a systems journal.
Save the date! Details on registration coming soon.
More on living systems not following the law of entropy? Morten Vind-Visby in the Systems Sciences group on Facebook
In the Systems Sciences group, Morten Vind-Visby asks:
I am trying to get at better understanding of the concept of living systems not following the laws of entropy according to second law of thermodynamics.
Hammond (2020) mentions: “As Bertalanffy pointed out, among many others,the phenomena of life tend towards increasing complexity and order, in clear violation of the second law” – of thermodynamic (red)
This is also well described by Capra in systems view of life (2018). I understand it as the Self-organising abilities of living systems and thereby emergent properties are some of the reasons why living systems defy entropy.
As I understand it – this is the mechanisms that keeps us alive. But as we grow older and our organism lose it ability to reproduce itself and we die! Is that not entropy of that said system?
If possible please include reference. It would be of great help
Reference: Hammond, Debora. “The Legacy of Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Its Relevance for Our Time.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science, vol. 36, no. 3, 29 Apr. 2019, pp. 301–307, 10.1002/sres.2598. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020.
Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi (2018). The systems view of life : a unifying vision. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Systems Sciences | Facebook
Maximum entropy network states for coalescence processes
Arsham Ghavasieh, Manlio De Domenico
Complex network states are characterized by the interplay between system’s structure and dynamics. One way to represent such states is by means of network density matrices, whose von Neumann entropy characterizes the number of distinct microstates compatible with given topology and dynamical evolution. In this Letter, we propose a maximum entropy principle to characterize network states for systems with heterogeneous, generally correlated, connectivity patterns and non-trivial dynamics. We focus on three distinct coalescence processes, widely encountered in the analysis of empirical interconnected systems, and characterize their entropy and transitions between distinct dynamical regimes across distinct temporal scales. Our framework allows one to study the statistical physics of systems that aggregate, such as in transportation infrastructures serving the same geographic area, or correlate, such as inter-brain synchrony arising in organisms that socially interact, and active matter that swarm or synchronize.
Read the full article at: arxiv.org
Paul Watzlawick: MRI’s mentors (Bateson, Jackson, Erickson, von Foerster) – YouTube (put up by Mark McKergow)
Paul Watzlawick: MRI’s mentors (Bateson, Jackson, Erickson, von Foerster)
Paul Watzlawick: MRI’s mentors (Bateson, Jackson, Erickson, von Foerster) – YouTube
Self-organisation, (M, R)–systems and enactive cognitive science
Tomasz Korbak
Adaptive Behavior 31(1)
The notion of self-organisation plays a major role in enactive cognitive science. In this paper, I review several formal models of self-organisation that various approaches in modern cognitive science rely upon. I then focus on Rosen’s account of self-organisation as closure to efficient cause and his argument that models of systems closed to efficient cause – (M, R) systems – are uncomputable. Despite being sometimes relied on by enactivists this argument is problematic it rests on assumptions unacceptable for enactivists: that living systems can be modelled as time-invariant and material-independent. I then argue that there exists a simple and philosophically appealing reparametrisation of (M, R)–systems that accounts for the temporal dimensions of life but renders Rosen’s argument invalid.
Read the full article at: journals.sagepub.com
Phase-separation physics underlies new theory for the resilience of patchy ecosystems
Koen Siteur, Quan-Xing Liu, Vivi Rottschäfer, Tjisse van der Heide, Max Rietkerk, Arjen Doelman, Christoffer Boström, and Johan van de Koppel
PNAS 120 (2) e2202683120
Human-induced environmental changes push ecosystems worldwide toward their limits. Therefore, there is a growing need for indicators to assess the resilience of ecosystems against external changes and disturbances. We highlight a novel class of spatial patterns in ecosystems for which resilience indicators are lacking and introduce a new indicator framework for these ecosystems, akin to the physics of phase separation. Our work suggests that aerial imagery can be used to monitor patchy ecosystems and highlights a link between physics and ecosystem resilience.
Read the full article at: www.pnas.org
Radical Methodologies Seminar: Systems Theatre with Tom Scholte, 5-7pm, Friday 20 January, Brighton UK
Where: South downs room, 3rd Floor, Mithras House, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN31FR
Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-methodologies-seminar-systems-theatre-with-tom-scholte-tickets-510688552207
Brighton’s Radical Methodologies Research Group is delighted to welcome Tom Scholte from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, who will be sharing their work in resolving systemic conflicts through theatre practice.
Scholte is a nationally recognized actor who has appeared in dozens of films, TV shows and plays. Recently, the UBC theatre and film professor has turned their attention to the role that theatre can play in resolving conflict and bridging division. As the artistic director of Conflict Theatre at UBC — a collaboration between Human Resources, the Department of Theatre and Film, and Equity & Inclusion — Scholte uses the tools of forum theatre to help faculty and staff work approach workplace conflict differently. By rehearsing new strategies for difficult conversations, Scholte says participants build resilience, empathy, and emotional intelligence.
Scholte is vice-president of the American Society for Cybernetics and their recent work has drawn on the creative arts to develop what they have termed “critical cybernetics”.
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Brighton’s Radical Methodologies Research Group explores counter-conventional approaches to research and practice across varied contexts and disciplines. Centred in design, the group looks to question the roots of methodological assumptions (hence radical – from the Latin radix, or root) and to promote exchange between discourses that tend to get separated out by institutional, disciplinary and departmental structures.
Postdoc position on “Creating bio-inspired co-evolutionary incentive systems to promote recycling, using Internet of Things technologies” ETH Zurich
You will produce a simulation program demonstrating self-organizing logistic networks that become more circular and sustainable over time.
You will create novel research breakthroughs and contribute to the ambitious ERC Advanced Investigator Grant on “Co-Evolving City Life” (CoCi) in subject areas connected to smart cities and digital societies. Your research focus will be on “Sustainable Cities and Coordination”. Given recent digital technologies such as the Internet of Things (sensor and communication networks), Artificial Intelligence, and blockchain technology, one can expect that production, logistics, and even waste, are becoming increasingly smart. Ideally, you will study how the convergence of these technologies can be used to fuel new approaches towards more sustainable production and logistics in an urban context.
The research question we would like to answer is, how the approach of self-organized and federated, learning, networked multi-agent systems can be used to create socio-economic incentives that would promote the emergence of…
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Constructivist Foundations Volume 18 Issue 1 – special issue HUMBERTO MATURANA’S IMPACT ON SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY – A PLURALITY OF PERSPECTIVES
Edited by Alexander Riegler and Pille Bunnell
With five target articles written by
+ Fritjof Capra
+ Alexander Kravchenko
+ Nelson Vaz
+ Jorge Mpodozis
+ Randall Whitaker
and 37 open peer commentaries and author’s responses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
== EDITORIAL ==
Bunnell P. & Riegler A.
A Plurality of Perspectives: Maturana’s Impact on Science and Philosophy
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Capra F.
The Organization of the Living: Maturana’s Key Insights
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Open Peer Commentaries
Cummins F.
Integrating Autopoiesis into a Scientific Account of Embodiment
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Kenny V.
A Radical Epistemological Severance
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Kordeš U.
When Studying the Mind, What Domain Is Being Investigated?
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Luisi P. L.
Reflections on Autopoiesis, the Signature of Life
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Ochoa-Arias A., Jerardino-Wiesenborn B. & Paucar-Caceres A.
Maturana’s Ontology of the Observer and Cultural Biology: Understanding
the Organization of Living
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Villalobos M.
The Concepts of Mind and Cognition in the Autopoietic Theory
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— Author’s Response —
Capra F.
Further Reflections on Maturana’s Key Insights
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Kravchenko A. V.
The Maturanian Turn: Good Prospects for the Language Sciences
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— Open Peer Commentaries —
Braver A.
Good News for the Language Sciences
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Sinha C.
Twists and Turns: Ahead of or Behind the Curve?
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Kenny V.
Maturana and Wittgenstein: Resisting Assimilation Together
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Sangati E.
Turning Language-Science Prospects into Science
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Raimondi V.
Maturana on Language Origins and Human Sociality
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Cowley S. J. & Gahrn-Andersen R.
Languaging in an Enlanguaged World
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Bartesaghi M.
Considering Observation
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Rodríguez Gómez S.
Stories Explaining Meaning
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Kravchenko A. V.
Towards a Paradigm Change in Language Studies
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Vaz N. M.
Maturanian Observer-Dependent Immunology
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Pordeus V.
Paradigmatic Shift in Immunology: Implications for Medicine,
Pathophysiology and Public Health Policies
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Booth R. J.
What Components Contribute to the Immune System?
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Kravchenko A. V.
The Distinctions We Make as Observers Affect Theory Adequacy
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Swiatczak B.
Immunoglobulins and Antibodies: Conceptual Projections All the Way Down
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Andrade L. A. B.
Nelson Monteiro Vaz’s Contributions to Immunology
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Vaz N. M.
Further Reflections on the Language of Immunology
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Mpodozis J.
Natural Drift: A Minimal Theory with Maximal Consequences
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Vargas A. O.
Natural Drift: New Foundations for Understanding Evolution
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Veit W. & Browning H.
Darwinian and Autopoietic Views of the Organism
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Young J.
Revisioning Planetary EmergencE/Y Through the Lens of Natural Drift
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Etxeberria A. & Cortés-García D.
What is Special about Natural Drift as an Organism-Centered View of
Evolution
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Räwel J.
Autopoiesis: A Concept With Even More Far-Reaching Consequences for
Evolutionary Theory
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Rubin S.
Is Natural Drift a Mechanism?
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Mpodozis J.
On Machines and Natural Drifts
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Whitaker R.
In Maturana’s Wake: The Biology of Cognition’s Legacy and its Prospects
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Baron P.
Using Social Media to Take Maturana’s Biology of Cognition Into the
Mainstream
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Urrestarazu H.
On Pedagogical Tactics when Applying Maturana’s Biology of Cognition
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Westermann C.
From Within, or the Domain of Design Practice
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Gash H.
Educing the Social from the Biology of Cognition
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Scholte T.
Potential Contributions to a Critical Cybernetics
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Gaggero S.
Five Questions about Humberto Maturana’s Way of Seeing and Explaining
our Human Living
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Whitaker R.
In the Wake of “In Maturana’s Wake”
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14th International Conference on Complex Networks COMPLENET 2023 April 25 – 28 2023
The International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines working on areas related to complex networks. CompleNet has been an active conference since 2009. In its 14th year, and after being an online event for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are very enthusiastic about reuniting in-person and delighted to have the next CompleNet in Aveiro, Portugal, hosted by Universidade de Aveiro.
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed an exponential increase in the number of publications and research centers dedicated to this field. From biological systems to computer science, from technical to informational networks, and from economic to social systems, complex networks are becoming pervasive for dozens of applications. It is the interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that CompleNet aims to capture and celebrate.
The CompleNet conference is one of the most cherished events by scientists in our field…
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Courses: Complex Systems Summer School | Santa Fe Institute
June 11- July 7, 2023.
Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive four-week introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. CSSS brings together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals to transcend disciplinary boundaries, take intellectual risks, and ask big questions about complex systems. The residential program comprises a series of lectures and workshops devoted to theory and tools, applications-focused seminars, and discussions with faculty and fellow participants. CSSS participants put what they learn from these didactic sessions into practice through group research projects, conducted throughout the program and often extending into manuscripts and longer-term collaborations. CSSS provides an unparalleled opportunity for early-career researchers to expand their professional networks, produce a novel research product, and gain valuable experience working in transdisciplinary teams.
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