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ANNOUNCEMENTS | DEC 22, 2022

RSD12: At the Systemic Design Association’s General Assembly, Evan Barba proposed that Georgetown University coordinate RSD12 as a distributed network model where a handful of “hubs” or “nodes” act as regional hosts for RSD. The proposal was enthusiastically received and approved.

Happy holidays

Message from SDA Chair Silvia BarberoI want to take this opportunity to make a special wish for the new year that we continue to connect people with design and build a future of peace and friendship. The future is now, and we are responsible for designing a better world.READ MORE

Contexts – the Systemic Design JournalPeter Jones, Editor in Chief: We’ve had a huge learning year and good results for the systemic design publication. Volume 1 will feature papers from authors Harold Nelson, Elena Porqueddu, Dulmini Perera and Tony Fry.READ MORE

RSD11

Next stepsThis phase starts by moving into production mode, with a target publication date of February 15, 2023. For authors who are revising their papers, the deadline is December 31. It’s also time to upload presentations or supporting materials. While providing anything beyond a final paper is not mandatory, these are welcome additions to the systemic design repository.READ MORE

Reflections on RSD11This year’s RSD contributions were dedicated to exploring possibilities for systemic design. A call went out to question systemic design’s emerging shape, and the growing, remarkably interdisciplinary systemic design community responded.READ MORE

Member News

Designing ComplexityThe much-awaited book, Designing Complexity: The Method & Practice of Systems Oriented Design, by Birger Sevaldson, is available in PDF and hardback. It officially launches in January but can be ordered now.Birger has also re-launched the legacy systemsorienteddesign.net with hundreds of resources: gigamapping, frameworks, tools, projects, and more. Subscribe to get notified of new articles.BOOK DETAILS & ORDER

Sign up & sign inAlthough scholarly work was core at RSD11, the experience felt more like a movement.While volunteer run, SDA needs to maintain a small operating budget to support the emergence of systemic design across a community of academics and practitioners.Please be sure to support SDA this year as a member or with a donation. The SDA member directory also has a new look, so if you opt into the directory, please update your profile.SDA MEMBERSHIP

A self-organized critical model and multifractal analysis for earthquakes in Central Alborz, Iran

A self-organized critical model and multifractal analysis for earthquakes in Central Alborz, Iran | Scientific Reports

Fractal dynamics of earthquakes

Fractal dynamics of earthquakes (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV

Self-Organized Fractal Seismicity and b-Value of Aftershocks of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal

Self-Organized Fractal Seismicity and b-Value of Aftershocks of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal

#ComplexSystems folks:After more than a decade, I am planning to update this diagram. What kind of keywords, concepts, topics, and/or research areas should be added? Let me knowhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Complex_systems_organizational_map.jpg

Hiroki Sayama on Twitter: “#ComplexSystems folks: After more than a decade, I am planning to update this diagram. What kind of keywords, concepts, topics, and/or research areas should be added? Let me know https://t.co/OjSuRjG14X https://t.co/uMXZ5KQlOU” / Twitter

Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.28963/5.2

Published: 19-12-2022

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Witnessing and Bearing Witness. On offering systemic consultations and practices of solidarity at the Uyghur Tribunal.

Charlotte Burck, Gillian Hughes, Julia Granville, Julia Nelki

1-13

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“Think different” to prevent extinction. Connecting Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Epistemology with Posthumanism

Hugh Palmer

14-27

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Adventures in time, gender and therapeutic practice. Embracing a queer systemic way of working with gender expansive families

Amanda Middleton

28-44

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Money Talks. Personal reflections from a systemic therapist on inequality, speaking out, and leaving the NHS

Julie Oates

45-52

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The Transformational Power of Expressive Writing

Dawn Louise Thibert, Thivvia Ragunathan

53-72

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Miss Be, Her Red Threads, and the Others. A Story about Social Justice and the Appreciation of Visual Art in Research Practice

Anja Zimmermann, Dr. Maaike Hermsen

73-81

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Distinctions in Practitioner Research between Professional Practice and Research Practice

Gail Simon

82-119

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Revivals

Interviewing Peter Lang

Smaro Markou

120-137

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Practice and Research Notes

Reclaiming the relationship with bodily knowing through movement in nature

Lorna Edwards, Andreas Breden, Chiara Santin, Justine Van Lawick, Erik van der Elst

138-151

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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society
The Viable System Model in Action

By 

Angela Espinosa

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable Syst

How’s this ? Open Systems Theory – Making adaptive and Lasting Change 2x3day course 17th – 19th and 24th to 26th of February 2023 – Canberra, Australia with Merrelyn Emery and Peter Aughton @Mihail Sestakov, @Alidad Hamidi, @Trond Hjorteland and @Peter Aughton are helping to organize a a course in Canberra Australia in late February on Open Systems Theory (OST), this will be facilitated by none other than Merrelyn Emery, who along with her husband Fred Emery are the experts not only on the theory of OST but also on how it can be practically applied. OST is one of the most coherent application of systems thinking that we have seen, with a thorough scientific theoretical back ground and immediate practical application supporting organisations and groups to be equipped to handle the true nature of being a viable adaptive organisation. OST is elates people and their organizations to their extended social field. It promotes participation and democracy. Learn OST through the application of theory to the methods experiencing why some methods work while others don’t. You will learn about all the OST methods, the Search Conference, Participative Design Workshop, 2 Stage Model and Unique designs. This suite of methods covers all contingencies in all contexts. To find out more please let us know or click below to find out more https://events.humanitix.com/ost_canberra/

Fri 17th Feb 2023, 3:00 pm – Sun 26th Feb 2023, 9:00 pm AEDT

Open Systems Theory, Making Adaptive Lasting Change, Belconnen, Fri 17th Feb 2023, 3:00 pm – Sun 26th Feb 2023, 9:00 pm AEDT | Humanitix

The book is about an empirical, systems theory of a general, systemic/structural view of parts of the world integrated with creative problem solving procedure with the latter generating a ‘product and systems’ design method. As an alternative to the speculative and fragmented nature of current ‘systems thinking’ and practice, the book proposes three principles of systems: ‘Generality/nested hierarchy, changes of equilibrium states and problem solving/purpose’ together with ‘linguistic modelling’ using processed, natural language or transformation of narratives of scenarios into sequences of logical conditionals, the executor of the principles. Implementation of the creative, innovative, inspirational stage leads to ‘design parameters’ which guide the detailed design of systems and products defined as any entity capable of generating interaction. Uncertainties and mathematical models are introduced at the object/agent level as required. The theory is ‘property driven’ i.e., uses qualitative, quantitative properties including social, emotive and other mental states. Elementary, systemic or structural properties are ‘1 – and 2 – place simple sentences’ which can lead to operational representations when appropriate. Meaning preserving, linguistic transformations convert a narrative or story into such sentences. A user driven approach to the analysis of ‘information’ is introduced. Recent paradigm changes and problematic issues in current ‘systems thinking’ are reviewed. The theory is based on accepted branches of knowledge such as linguistics, network theory, biology, physics, chemistry, social science as needed, it is highly teachable, introduces linguistics in addition to mathematics as a symbolic model and can inspire further research. It introduces four criteria for judging the ‘soundness’ of symbolic models. However, it needs peer review, software development to work out the dynamics of scenarios and further developments for applications to more practical problem situations in organisations, technical and natural circumstances.

Science and Design of Problem Solving Systems eBook : Korn, Janos: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Anthony S. White,

Lindsey Brodie &

Michael Censlive

4 Dec 2022

Full article: Application of perceptual control theory to a Beer Game supply chain model

In the systems thinking network group on LinkedIn, John Evans shared his book

He gives the caveat “It’s a bit dense, terse even, because it started out as a backup to an in house training course” – but I and others thought on first look that it seems useful. John (I hope he doesn’t mind me saying) can be on the curmudgeon scale – sometimes quite extremely so – but he certainly has useful experience, techniques, and perspective to share.

The book:
key concepts in systems thinking – John Evans

He also shared this:
https://www.academia.edu/48912553/Chapter_2_The_Biological_Basis_of_Thought_and_Perception

The Significance of Regenerative Learning

One of the root causes of our global environmental crisis is the way in which education is imparted and the manner in which it is used to fuel relentless economic growth. Contemporary education systems remain long on building an ‘extractive’ mindset and are hopelessly ‘unfit for purpose’ as we wrestle with converging crises of climate emergency, ecological collapse, racial inequality and worsening social injustice.

Regenerative learning is a response to this harsh reality and goes beyond structured education. By collectively focusing on ‘nurturing people and caring for the planet’, we can transcend old paradigms and explore how to repurpose old structures, schools and universities.

This webinar will feature Shakti Saran, Founder, Shaktify in conversation with Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College and will be facilitated by Andrea Stone, an emotional intelligence leadership coach. They will explore the realm of regenerative learning, its significance, how it manifests itself, and what can be done to overhaul education systems to make them more humanistic and sensitive to the needs of our planet.Time

Dec 8, 2022 08:30 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi

Webinar Registration – Zoom