Centre for Systems Studies Anniversary Event

Webinar

The 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Centre for Systems Studies 21 September 2022, 12.30-4pm Discovery Room, Hull University Business SchoolOnline & In-PersonOn 21 September 2022, we are holding an event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Centre for Systems Studies (CSS) here at the University of Hull. Members of our systems community will give presentations and discuss the past, present and future of the Centre. Over the last thirty years, the applied research of CSS has been widely-acknowledged as paradigm changing. This event will provide an opportunity to mark past achievements, and also to discuss where we want to go next as we continue to renew our research agenda into the future. This celebration will be hosted as a hybrid event. Limited in-person places will be available, and people will also be able to participate online. Those wishing to obtain a ticket for the in-person event will need to select the ‘in-person’ option on the registration form.

Emergent Engineering: Reframing the Grand Challenge for the 21st Century

Emergent Engineering: Reframing the Grand Challenge for the 21st Century | Santa Fe Institute

EMERGENT ENGINEERING:
REFRAMING THE GRAND CHALLENGE
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
David C. Krakauer, SFI
Santa Fe Institute, 2019

From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the groundby Sharon Scotcher | Aug 30, 2022 | Blog

From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the ground – EES

A Systemic Perspective on National Preparedness01 September 2022In this article John Beckford articulates a set of themes on applying systemic thinking to the notion of national preparedness. These themes will be explored in a set of subsequent papers commissio

A Systemic Perspective on National Preparedness | National Preparedness Commission

(This is the International Society for the Systems Sciences)

You are invited to join us on a journey to rediscover and appreciate the richness of our discipline during my presidential term. Grouped in monthly themes, we will explore traditional and emerging systems perspectives, with an added emphasis on reflection on interrelatedness of these different perspectives. Every fourth week, the session will be dedicated to intuitive reflection on the connections of the perspectives discussed during the month. I hope to create a rich library of material to be used by everyone entering the discipline or wishing to widen their own systems perspective.

Based on our experience of the past year, we decided not to have a weekly repeat of a main session, but rather alternate monthly between the two time slots used before. This means that during September, there will be one weekly session at 7 AM Pacific Daylight Time without any repeat, and October the sessions will be on Wednesdays at 7am in the Australian Eastern Standard Time (Sydney) without repeat. All sessions will be posted on ISSS shortly after completion. November will be on Saturdays, followed by December on Wednesdays, and so forth. Sessions will be announced in the Calendar on ISSS.org.

The Zoom Link will be in the ISSS calendar on ISSS.org on Thursday – [that should be here: https://www.isss.org/calendar/?cat=&view=day&month=9&day=3&year=2022]

Roelien Goede
ISSS President

Sustainability from ecological anthropology: the second life of trees

Sustainability from ecological anthropology: the second life of trees – Coevolving Innovations

FAILING PRODUCTIVELY IN SYSTEMS CHANGE: KEY MINDSETS & PRACTICESBy CoCreative  23 Aug 2022

Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets & Practices – NetworkWeaver

The Illusion of ComplexityJames Wilk

Introduction from the Editor

Complexity is not a feature of the world that can be modelled, or managed. Complexity is, rather, a function of our lack of understanding, or the way we have attempted to understand something—something which, once understood, can be seen to be fundamentally simple. Complexity needs to be filtered. The illusion of complexity, which continually renders our actions ineffective, results from the application of simplistic, sweeping midlevel abstractions to the idiosyncratic details of real-world situations. The radical implications for management and decision-making are the focus of this brief introduction to our contrarian view of complexity.—The Editors

CONTINUES IN SOURCE The Illusion of Complexity – by James Wilk – Change

Heinz Von Foerster Papers (Digital Surrogates)

Heinz Von Foerster Papers (Digital Surrogates) | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

via Mark Johnson, from Thomas Fischer:

Mark Johnson @mwjtweet

Thank you to @TH0MASF1SCHER – this is an exciting collection of videos on cybernetics with Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana “In cybernetics [] ethics becomes a central part of scientific activity” https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/ac64fb20-f570-0134-23e3-0050569601ca-0… @rupertwegerif @GubernatorHomo @carlgomb @antlerboy

This link includes two hosted plenary ASC conference recordings with von Foerster and Maturana.

Transcripts

Part one https://otter.ai/u/vVcSttm_NvigVkkVcKARL7ZyL_o

Part two https://otter.ai/u/GEG-hkUrvcawt9XpMPhwempCbd8

A really nice talk by Vince Horn on holism, networks, interbeing and so on.

This Great Network of Interbeing, with Vince F HornBuddhist GeeksRELIGION & SPIRITUALITYBUDDHISMbuddhismMeditationMindfulnessSocietyTechnologytibetan buddhismvajrayanavipassanazen© https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Website“‘To be’ is to inter-be.” – Thích Nhất HạnhIn this episode–taken from a Dharma Talk at the Garrison Institute in 2022–Vince Fakhoury Horn teaches on the complexity of Interbeing, looking at “it” from 3 distinct perspectives:Interbeing within OurselvesInterbeing with OthersInterbeing inside NatureTaken together, these three form a great network of Interbeing, one which opens us to the self-similar & fractal nature of interdependence. At every scale, we inter-are.

This Great Network of Interbeing, with Vince F Horn

Video

Overcast

https://overcast.fm/+Fgr-fuRg

Griffith University Yunus CentreAug 17·5 min read·ListenLayering portfolios in context. Developed by The Yunus Centre Griffith University & Hatched for Design Foundations for Systems CapitalDesign Foundations For Systems CapitalDesigning an investment approach that fosters systems innovation and transformation

Design Foundations For Systems Capital | by Griffith University Yunus Centre | Y Impact | Aug, 2022 | Medium

h/t Mikael Seppala

Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses | Science Advances

h/t Michael Garfield

PETER TURCHIN HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-1292-8100HARVEY WHITEHOUSE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0001-6935-6724 SERGEY GAVRILETSDANIEL HOYER HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-2675-257XPIETER FRANÇOISJAMES S. BENNETT HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-3051-1672KEVIN C. FEENEYPETER PEREGRINE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0001-9185-3348GARY FEINMAN HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-4787-2733[…]MAJID BENAM +8 authors Authors Info & Affiliations

SCIENCE ADVANCES

24 Jun 2022

Vol 8, Issue 25

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn3517

Abstract

During the Holocene, the scale and complexity of human societies increased markedly. Generations of scholars have proposed different theories explaining this expansion, which range from broadly functionalist explanations, focusing on the provision of public goods, to conflict theories, emphasizing the role of class struggle or warfare. To quantitatively test these theories, we develop a general dynamical model based on the theoretical framework of cultural macroevolution. Using this model and Seshat: Global History Databank, we test 17 potential predictor variables proxying mechanisms suggested by major theories of sociopolitical complexity (and >100,000 combinations of these predictors). The best-supported model indicates a strong causal role played by a combination of increasing agricultural productivity and invention/adoption of military technologies (most notably, iron weapons and cavalry in the first millennium BCE).

Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses

Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses | Science Advances