Another systems-related initiative that has been going for some time, this is a self-organising group focusing on Systems Change, meeting regularly online on Saturdays

more info including dates and links in pdf:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uwh4qSFFAclQGmQdSIKREZLUceqbXaMp/view

What is CrowdDoing?

CrowdDoing works in sustainability, anti-poverty, public health, education, and research. We
aim to address UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond through our social innovation
efforts. CrowdDoing approaches each collective challenge by harnessing operating leverage for
systems change via social innovation. This allows us to identify different under-utilized
capacities that could make addressing problems in our society more feasible in the future.
Because first
CrowdDoing.world believes in the exponential potential of global collaboration to de-risk and
develop social innovations and leverage diverse capabilities to realize shared goals. CrowdDoing
leverages multiple intervention points and under-utilized capacities to achieve operating leverage
for systems change. CrowdDoing is able to achieve this kind of operating leverage for impact
across our portfolio areas from homelessness prevention, prevention derivatives, health benefits
from spending time in nature, medicinal foods for stress and anxiety, and preventing isolation as
a side effect of virtual volunteerism. All of these are anticipatory solutions which allow people to
get ahead of their risks of catastrophe. CrowdDoing leverages under-utilized capacities to make
it feasible for our solutions to potentially reach the scale of the problems we face together.
At CrowdDoing, each of us adopts a dimension of a larger challenge. We collaborate within our
convenient feasibility on this with others. We don’t expect ourselves to have every expertise. We
rely on each-other. We include broad participation by micro-leaders in systemic change through
specific social innovations that we can build together.
CrowdDoing aims to scale participation through skilled volunteering and service-learning
opportunities to help enterprises and institutions foster social innovation. Better mental health,
physical health and productivity among employees are among the intrinsic incentives that prompt
companies to adopt employee volunteer programs. Learning, creating impact, and achieving
mental and physical health benefits are intrinsic incentives that prompt employees to participate
in volunteering & service-learning programs. Service learning focused on social innovation can
be efficient simultaneously at achieving impact, and at teaching skills needed in the future.
Service learning and skilled volunteering have demonstrably been efficient and effective
approaches to helping individuals acquire skills for a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity,
and ambiguity) world in a diversity of fields—from human resources to engineering to project
management to data science. Service learning combines learning objectives with community
service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal
needs. Service learning and skilled volunteering helps to bridge skill & social innovation gaps to
achieve sustainable development goals. Research shows professional development is most
effective when done in a hands-on manner through engaging challenging / new projects and

experiences. Micro-leadership at CrowdDoing means that while each person adopts a dimension
of responsibility for a collective problem in our society, each of us does not take on the worry
about the whole. We take on a level of responsibility that is safe for each of us to have comfort
in.

Initiatives list (more info in pdf)

(1) CrowdDoing is developing an app called Nature Counter which aims to promote the
benefits of spending time in nature by allowing users to track their time spent in parks and
other natural areas.

(2) Medicinal Foods & Herbs for Stress and Anxiety by CrowdDoing–now called
Flourish.Science

(3) Zero Subsidy Affordable Housing (ZSAH)

(4) CrowdDoing Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention

(5) Implicit Marginalia

(6) #systemschange is a dialogue hosted by CrowdDoing.world with leading thinkers and
practitioners in systems change, systems thinking and social innovation. This dialogue is
public facing and connects to theory and real-world problems. The conversation develops
narratives about how we can achieve agency regarding collective challenges. The
organization, CrowdDoing’s #SystemsChange brings together individuals in social
innovation, impact investing, complexity sciences, social entrepreneurship, collaboration
studies, ecosystem services, the arts, and artificial intelligence for social good. The goal is to
reach a regenerative future and address global problems before they become impossible to
solve. The conversations will be recorded for public release on video and audio platforms.
CrowdDoing also shares the output of #SystemsChange’s work on it’s Youtube channel

under #systemschange.15 CrowdDoing stewards #SystemsChange as a social innovation
organization. CrowdDoing’s #SystemsChange invites individuals to join a series of
international conversations about deepening collaboration across fields to address human and
environmental needs.

(7) Relational Capital by CrowdDoing.

(8) Project Blackthorn (the New Stock Exchange for Systems Change)

(9) Generative AI Course on Backcasting from a solar punk future on Udemy

(10) Ikigai by CrowdDoing

(11) Common App for Volunteer Request

(12) Initiative for a Systems-Change “Solar Punk Fund for Sweat Equity
Diversification”

(13) Deliberative Democracy

(14) CrowdDoing Hackathon

(15) Dopplegangers United by CrowdDoing

(16) Mutual “Debt for Nature” for Accelerated Biodiversity Conservation

(17) Radical Collaboration on Addressing Solar Punk Narrative Gap

(18) Vertical gardens in hospitals by CrowdDoing

(19) Service Learning Singularity

(20) Spaceship Earth Knowledge Management

(21) Democratization of Shareholder resolution proxy voting

(22) Crypto-Impact Potential: The CrowdDoing Crypto Impact Potential project

Over a few years, ‘Jason the Goodman’ (Jason Jixuan Hu, Ph.D.) has hosted some remarkable speakers and sessions

Organizer: Club of REMY:  www.clubofremy.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJumBT3J15xhAoNs9CnrSVg/videos

Call For Participation         CoR Interactive Process      7-Slides Rule          COR Topics 2020

Club of Remy – Really-relevant Emergency Mindfully-minding You

Events (not up-to-date)

Events

2021 Events:

– November 10th, Wednesday

1-  Klaus Krippendorff: Four theories of using language

2-  Larry Richards: Bits and Pieces of a Cybernetic Approach to Language

3-  Joe Velikovsky: The UNITS & LEVELS of: Language!

4-  Louis H. Kauffman​​: Cybernetics, Language and Reflexive Domains

-October 12th, Tuesday, Chinese Session 

Qiang XU, Beifang ZHOU, Susan LIU, Jason HU together:  Three Critical Questions of Our Time: How Do We Resolve Conflicts Between Our Mainstream Story System And Human Knowledge Explosion Since Renaissance? What Are the Functionality of Faith System for Our Civilization and How Do We Revitalize It Today? What Are the Relationship Among Rationality, Emotionality, Sustainability and Civilization Development?

–October 6th, Wednesday

·        Lucas Pawlik: Our Current Dilemma (Threats from A.I., bioweapon & “1984”)

·        Michael Ellis: Global Transition to A Sustainable Civilization

·        Jason Hu: Civilization Evolution at Crossroads: Options Ahead According to Multiple Agent Self-Organization Perspective

– September 8th, Wednesday

CoR Extra Special: “What Lessons We Can Learn from these Five Wars” (Part II, English Session)

(This session will last three hours with five discussants.)

1-      Glenda Eoyang: USA Past, Present and Future: A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective

2-      Stuart Umpleby:  Two Conceptions of War – from Two Systems of Ethical Cognition

3-      Deeanna Burleson: Is It Really Unintended Consequences: Sensemaking in and around “political” conflicts

4-      HUANG Ciping (rep. WEI Jingsheng):  Reasons for the American Failures from Historical Perspective

5-      Jason Hu: How Many Boys Are Crying Wolf & How Many Wolves Are Indeed Out There??? – A Meta-Reflection on American’s Five External Wars

September 7th, Tuesday

CoR Extra Special: “What Lessons We Learn from these Five Wars” (Part I, Chinese Session)

(This session will last three hours with five discussants.)

1-      WEI Jingshen: Reasons for the American Failures from Historical Perspective  魏京生： 从历史上看美国失败的原因

2-      SU Xiaokang:  The Sacrifice of Utopian Morality – What We Do When Our Value of Human Rights Encounter Unrestricted War 苏晓康：道德乌托邦祭–当人权价值遭遇超限战

3-      ZHOU Beifang: The Christian National Spirit And The American Mourn from Its Interventions of Local Wars  周北方：基督教立国精神与局部战争介入的美国之殇

4-      LIU Susan:  The Misplacement of Strategies and the Social-Psychological Foundations for Gaming Between Big States  刘苏珊：从策略的错配谈大国博弈中的社会心理基础

5-      XU Qiang: Proposing State-Based Showcase Project Defending Conservative Value System Against the Progressives’ Abuse of Value  徐强：保卫保守价值观及对抗所谓“进步派”的价值滥用的州立项目建议

September 1st:

Gennady Shkliarevsky, Carl Goldberg, Peter Cariani: (Three Different Perspectives on) the Paradox of Observing, Autopoiesis, and the Future of Social Sciences.

August 4th: 

Maurice Yolles: Autopoietic Efficacy – A Metacybernetic View – Some Ideas;  Jonathan Huxley: Viable Society – Or Different Types of Social Structures that Fit Our Ideas in System Theory;  Jason Hu: Appropriateness Between Reductionism and Holism, and Feed-left vs Feed-right – Increasing Communicative Coordination vs. Increasing Cognitive Resolution and “Realness”;

July 7th:

Lucio Biggiero: Reductionism, Weak Reductionism, Anti-Reductionism: Where Do We Place?  Jerry LR Chandler: From the Perspective of the Implications of Logical Synduction and Obligation;  Jason Hu: Appropriate-Reductionism with Two Strategies Derived from Ashby’s LRV – Feedleft vs Feedright – Increasing Feasibility vs. Increasing Cognitive Resolution;

June 30th:

21st Century Agoras – Cocreating Civitas of the Future through Democratic Dialogue Culture. Heiner Benking: Futures and Challenges for Democracy between Technology and Individualism; Peter Jones: The Once and Future Agoras: Sustaining People, Place, and Principles in Wicked Social Problems; Tom Flanagan: 21st Century Agoras: Translating a corporate model for inclusive collaborative design into the civic culture.

June 16th:

Second Session on Maurice Yolles’s topic of Meta-Cybernetics:  William Reckmeyer: Homo Cybernetics; Jason Hu: Twelve Types of Cybernetic Circular Causalities; Maurice Yolles: From Metacybernetics to Mindset Agency Theory.

June 15th 

(Chinese session, same time with English sessions from now on every Tuesday)Jason Hu & Susan Sun co-authoring project:  Emergence of Totalitarian Phenomenon – from the perspective of Cultural DNA, Cultural Identity Core, and Cultural Gene Evolution and Re-engineering. Qiang Xu: Are We on A New Road to Serfdom? – Observations on American Society Today.

June 9th: 

Pandemic of Bulges – How can we steer ourselves to move and eat better;

Lucas Pawlik(video); Namrata Singh(video);

June 8th:

Comparing 4 Cases of Collective Cooperation Efforts

Susan Sun: Rationality Degree in Decision-Making Perspective
Dahang Wei: Emotional Dynamics Perspective
Qiang Xu: Conflict Resolution Perspective
Jason Hu: Cultural Gene Hypothesis Perspective

May 28th: (In Chinese)  

Frazer Xia: Synapse Pruning and the Formation of Cognitive Framework;  

Susan Sun:  A New Tool to Listen to the Cries from Afar (in Rational Decision-Making);

Jason Hu: Six Directions/Types of Cybernetic Feeds – Back, Forward, Up, Down, Left, Right.

May 26th:

Maurice Yolles: Metacybernetics: Towards a General Theory of Higher-Order Cybernetics;

Jerry LR Chandler: Third-Order Bio-cybernetics.  Non-Boolean Higher-Order Categories of Living Systems;

Larry Richards: Cybernetics: A Cure for Hierarchy and Meta-Anything?  

May 19th:

Mustafa Akyol: Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance;

Carl Goldberg: Obstacles for Muslims to Open Mind;

Jason Hu: My Suggestion to Jerusalem for A Possible Solution of the Deadlock, or, Why It Is Not Possible?

May 12th: 

Andy Williams:  Implementing a General Collective Intelligence to Radically Increase Capacity to Achieve Global Systemic Change;

Maurice Yolles: From General Collective Intelligence to Autopoietic Efficacy – Towards Synergies Across Theory;

Susan Sun: A Comprehensive Description of  Rational Thinking of Individual Brain as the  Basis for General Collective Intelligence – A Family Therapist Perspective;

May 7th: (In Chinese)  

Jason Hu: Beyond Karl Popper How do we see our world now;

Qiang Xu: Describing New Human after Nietzsche’s Superman in Critique of Rousseau’s Wrong Ideas;

Dahang Wei: Types of Aesthetics Leading to Different Cultural Genes;

May 5th:  Why Problem-Solving Becomes A Problem? Answers from Three Different Perspectives;

Klaus Krippendorff(video), Loet Leydesdorff(video), Lowell Christy(video)

April 30th: (In Chinese)  

Dahang Wei:What Happens to Our Rationality After Nietzsche;  Susan Sun: Edutainment Startup Promoting Rational Thinking Capacity, and Three Game Products; Qiang Xu: New Human after Superman and  Jason Hu: Coordination of Several BP Ideas gemmed from CoR;

April 28^th:  Educational Projects for System Thinking: A Business Plan for A New Non-Profit Organization Pushing Our Ideas into Reality, A Formal Call for More Directors or Advisors;

Kerry Turner(video), John Vodonick(video),, Jason Hu(video),, Group Discussion(video),

April 23: (In Chinese)  Dahang Wei:  Sketch of A New Movie Project;  Susan Sun: Improving Rational Thinking Capacity, Designing Tactics in War of Ideas; Jason Hu: Toolbox of Communicatics;

April 21: What Kind of Group Process the Club of Remy Members Might Like to Adopt? or, How Do We Move This Work Forward?

Jason Hu(video), Jonathan Huxley(video), Richard Knowles(video). Group Discussion(video)

April 14:  Self-Organization, Hierarchy, and Its Complex Relationships in Socio-Economic Systems;

Lucio Biggiero(video), Loet Leydesdorff(video)

April 9: (In Chinese)  (1) The Unrestricted Warfare Online Game to Raise Awareness of Our Situation? (2) Dot Thinking, Line Thinking, and System Thinking – A Social Media Discussion Framework for Current Affairs;

Susan Sun,  Dahang Wei, Qiang Xu, Ellen Tang

April 7:  Problems of Common Metaphors In Dealing with Social Systems;

Klaus Krippendorff(video), Mark Johnson(video), Bernard Scott(video), Group Discussion (video)

April 2:  Isomorphy as A Power Tool in Inter/Cross/Trans-Disciplinary Learning, Information Cocoons, Social Comfort Zones, and System Thinking;

(In Chinese) Jason Hu(video), Dahang Wei, Susan Sun, Qiang Xu, Ellen Tang:

March 31:  Group Processes – Goethe’s Way (Jonathan), Quaker’s Way (Lowell), and ICA ToP Way (Stuart);

Jonathan Huxley(video), Lowell Christy(video), Stuart Umpleby(video)

Our Information Cocoons and Social Comfort Zones, and “My List of Top Concerns – Individual and Social”;

Susan Sun(video),  Qiang Xu, Dahang Wei, Jason Hu

Dual Universe, Double Bind and Three-Fold Vision, Schismogenesis Cases;

Lowell Christy(video), Carlos Sluzki(video)

Family Therapy Process Framework and possible Transition to Organizational and Social Interventions Including Movies;

Susan Sun(video), Dahang Wei

Quantum Entanglement as the Fundament of Life: Consciousness-based Evolution

John Torday(video), Fraze Xia(video), Mark Johnson(video), Klaus Krippendorff(video)

Using A Shared Case to Facilitate Our Mutual Understanding of Key Concepts

Lucio Biggiero(video); Loet Lydesdorff(video); Bernard Scott(video1, video2), Jason Hu(video)

Group Discussion I (video), Group Discussion II (video), Group Discussion III (video)

Facilitating Growth of Intellectual Leaders – Potential of Growing CoR into an Online Doctoral Program of System Thinking?  

Qiang Xu, Dahang Wei, Jason Hu

Designing/Resigning Government Session II,  continue of Jan. 27 session (by Bob Knisely, Stuart Umpleby, Lowell Christy)

George Mobus(Video), Marc Pierson(Video), Klaus Krippendorff(video)

Group Discussion 1(Video), Group Discussion 2(Video)

Critical Cybernetics (II) and Distinctions between Cybernetics and System Science

Mike Jackson(Video), Juancho Barron(Video), George Mobus(Video), Group Discussion (Video)

Distinctions between Cybernetics and System Science, and Critical Cybernetics (I)

Larry Richard(video), Klaus Krippendorff(video)

Follow-up for My View about What’s Wrong in the U.S.（Chinese Session)

Q. Xu: Noam Chomsky’s Success Case of Propagating His Ideas(video)

D. Wei: Proposal of Action Plan for Club of Remy(video)

J. Hu: Government Design Perspective II – Discussing Recent High-Impact Documentaries(video)

Designing Government  (Based on Bob’s 22-minutes video: https://youtu.be/COZX9TXWnqY   Bob requests everyone attending to view this video BEFORE the session so we can jump into the discussions right away.)

Bob Knisely(video), Stuart Umpleby(video), Lowell Christy(video), Group Discussion(Video)

My View about What’s Wrong in the U.S. （Chinese Session)

Michael Q. Xu(video), Dahang Wei(video), Jason Hu(video)

Digitalization and Social Responsibility 

Igor Perko(video), Matjaz Mulej(video), Teodora Ivanusa(video)

The Unknown Ashby – Ultrastability (from Different Perspectives);

Manel Pretel-Wilson(video), Stuart Umpleby(video), Jason Hu(video)

YouTube site

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJumBT3J15xhAoNs9CnrSVg/videos

Seven methods for mapping systems

February 28, 2023

By Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra S. Penn

Seven methods for mapping systems – Integration and Implementation Insights

[Double warning: a systematic review (i.e. word search on papers) and an MDPI Journal]

Implementation of Systems Thinking in Public Policy: A Systematic Review

by 

Le-Khanh-Ngan Nguyen ^1,2,

Cecilia Kumar ¹,

Bowen Jiang ¹ and

Nici Zimmermann ^1,*

Systems | Free Full-Text | Implementation of Systems Thinking in Public Policy: A Systematic Review

[From the usually-reliable Complexity Digest. I may be tired, but I’m struggling to see why it’s noteworthy. Sharing anyway!]

FIELD GRAND CHALLENGE article

Front. Complex Syst., 16 February 2023
Volume 1 – 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcpxs.2023.1080801

Frontiers in Complex Systems

Maxi San Miguel*

• Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, IFISC (CSIC—UIB), Campus Universitat Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Frontiers | Frontiers in Complex Systems

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Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) was a Russian social theorist and revolutionary activist whose ‘universal organizational science’, or Tektology, is increasingly being recognized as offering stronger foundations for the systems approach than the later ‘general system theory’ of Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Had his thinking not been suppressed by Stalin, the course of Soviet history might have been different. Stafford Beer (1926–2002) was a British management scientist and consultant who was a pioneer in the development of ‘organizational cybernetics’. His best-known engagement was with the government of Salvador Allende, in Chile, seeking to use his ‘viable system model’ to create a socialist society that did not rest on a command economy. This experiment was cut short by the Pinochet coup d’etat. I have found no evidence that Beer was familiar with the work of Bogdanov, and this makes the similarities in their thinking particularly striking. This paper explores the ideas they shared. The work of other writers who have drawn on the work of Bogdanov and Beer, in formulating contemporary visions of post-capitalism, is also noted.

Bioentropy, Aesthetics and Meta-dualism: The Transdisciplinary Ecology of Gregory Batesonby Peter Harries-Jones

Entropy | Free Full-Text | Bioentropy, Aesthetics and Meta-dualism: The Transdisciplinary Ecology of Gregory Bateson

Peter Harries‑Jones

York University (Ontario)

2021

“From Anthropology to Epistemology”: Extensions to an Autobiography of Gregory BatesonPeter Harries‑JonesYork University (Ontario)2021

“From Anthropology to Epistemology” : Extensions to an Autobiography of (…) – Bérose

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RSD12 ANNOUNCEMENT | February 22, 2023

RSD12 organising institution announced Georgetown University, USAThis year, RSD12 is a multi-event symposium. The invitation to submit an expression of interest to host a hub site is now open. Proposal deadline is March 7, 2023.

RSD12 HUB EOI & CONCEPT PAPER

RSD12 Concept

SAVE THE DATES: OCTOBER 9–20, 2023READ MORE

The Georgetown proposal is a multi-event symposia concept, connecting systemic design hubs around the world in a sequence of in-person, online, and hybrid sessions. Hub symposia are augmented by a daily four-hour online program dedicated to full papers and emergent programming (RSD12 co-schedule). The working dates for RSD12 are October 9th–20th, 2023, excluding weekends (the dates will be finalized following input from confirmed hubs).The RSD12 program will feature up to eight hubs, plus Georgetown University. Hubs will run programs sequentially to avoid an overlap in programming and consist of in-person sessions over at least one day, including a live-streamed keynote speaker. RSD12 will culminate with a three-day event, October 18–20, 2023, hosted on-campus at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and the SDA General Assembly on Friday, October 20th, 2023.

RSD12 Call for hubs

The Systemic Design Association and Georgetown University are ready to receive Expressions of Interest from partner organizations to host one or multiple days of RSD12 as part of the collaborative hub model envisioned for October 2023. Please submit your EoI before March 1, 2023.READ MORE

Expression of Interest and FAQsThe expression of interest provides clear steps for putting your hub idea forward. There’s a schedule and budget template to help make planning easier. FAQs include what you need to do, what to expect from organisers, proceedings and how to apply.

Take a minute

Systemic Design Symposium SurveySURVEY

Please take a minute to complete this brief survey to help guide planning for the next phase of the systemic design symposium and RSD12. The results of this systemic design symposium survey will guide RSD12 planning group decision-making.Since the first RSD symposium was held in 2012 a symposium has been held each year. The inaugural two-day seminar, organized by Birger Sevaldson and Marit Helgesen at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, has expanded to accommodate the systemic design community and the trove of interdisciplinary contributions each year. The planning teams have adapted the programme to online and hybrid formats and in 2021, SDA launched RSDsymposium.org to provide a robust, searchable repository. The repository represents leading thinking on systemic design and consists of hundreds of presentations, papers, and gigamaps.

About Georgetown

Located in Northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.RSD12 INFO

Georgetown University is a top-ranking academic and research institution comprised of 11 undergraduate and graduate schools and degrees in more than 40 disciplines. RSD12 chair, Evan Barba, is an associate professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology Program and co-director of the Iteration Lab, a multidisciplinary laboratory for the design and analysis of socio-technical systems. Evan is an SDA founding member, a consistent contributor to RSD symposia, and joined the SDA board in 2019.If you plan to join the culminating in-person three-day event at Georgetown University, it’s worth planning to stay the weekend. RSD12 is situated near Washington DC museums, which number more than 75 and include the Smithsonian Institution’s 17 museums, many galleries and a zoo. (Bonus: many of the museums are free of charge.)

Opportunities

TU Delft and AHO have open calls for professors of systemic design.Assistant Professor Systemic Design, TU Delft—deadline March 16Professor/Associate Professor in Design, AHO—deadline March 26

“How we might design with and across intergenerational communities to cultivate pluralistic, participatory communities?” Elon University’s Design Forge 2023 sessions run from March 29-31. Sign up now for free online registration. For more information contact Danielle Lake.