A view or perspective on the world
In the face of escalating social and ecological breakdown, populations around the world are calling for a fundamental system change. Codes for a Healthy Earth offers a unifying whole-system healing framework to support people and communities in working together across national, cultural and ideological boundaries for radical system transformation and rapid social and ecological regeneration.
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Overview | Creative Systems Theory
Creative Systems Theory presents a comprehensive framework for understanding change, purpose, and interrelationship in human systems with special pertinence to making sense of the times in which we live and the challenges before us. It is significant both for the practical usefulness of its ideas and for the fact that it represents the kind of conceptual perspective that will be increasingly essential in times ahead.
We can think of CST’s importance as having three layers. First it represents a practical set of tools for thinking systemically about human process. Its unique perspective helps us answer all kinds of questions difficult to address, or to address with adequate subtlety with more conventional formulations.
The second layer of importance pertains more specifically to the times in which we live. CST provides big-picture perspective for making sense of our time. The concept of Cultural Maturity is a specific notion within Creative Systems Theory. The concept of Culturla Maturity articulates a simple, yet not simplistic “guiding story” for our time, one that helps us get beyond conflicting ideologies. Creative Systems Theory goes on to provide detailed perspective for understanding what today we see around us, for developing good future policy, and for identifying where our formulations may fall short.
The third kind of importance concerns the kind of understanding that CST represents. CST argues that our times defining challenges require not just new ideas, but fundamentally new kinds of ideas. Culturally mature conception.requries a fullness and complexity of thought not before needed—or possible. Such conception is new in that it is more systemic than conventional thought, and thus better able to capture nuance and interrelationship. It is also better able to honor the living dynamism of human experience. CST makes the argument for such new ways of thinking—both why they are needed and what they entail. And it itself succeeds as Culturally Mature conception. Just how it does provides both overarching perspective and the capacity to make detailed culturally mature discernments.
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Overview | Creative Systems Theory
UPDATE — slides, video, notes now in edited post at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_systems-convening-systems-practice-systems-activity-6942014940794789888-c6He
Today I’m doing a one-hour talk (see https://q.health.org.uk/event/systems-convening-systems-thinking-and-systems-practice-with-ben-taylor/ – you can still join if you see this when I publish – and you can see the board at bit.ly/systems3board at any time) on how systems practices and systems thinking can link in to the wonderful social learning that Bev and Etienne Weger-Trayner identified in their Systems Convening book.
They discovered people who make a difference:
“You may not have heard about them; what they do is rarely in their job description. You may not even be aware of what they do; they tend to act as enablers rather than taking credit or seeking the spotlight. But they are here— working on sustainable change, across challenging silos, in complex social landscapes, amid changing circumstances. We call them systems conveners.
“Their stance is both visionary and pragmatic. They look at the social landscape…
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Design Needs Complexity Theory
Kasey Klimes
Aug 13, 2021131
Despite Christopher Alexander’s notable application of complexity theory in design during the 60’s and 70’s, the two fields have mysteriously grown apart. The contemporary design world demonstrates little interest in complexity theory, and design is generally absent in the world of complexity theory. I think this separation is not only a missed opportunity, but also a tragic error for humanity on a larger scale.
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On intentionality | Gaining Systemic Insight
I recently said: Everything we do with intention is not systemic. I can’t really remember in what context I said it but I remember that I was surprised myself when hearing me say that. So here a bit of an exploration of this statement.
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I needed a video presenting the historical development of ideas behind the complexity and network science in 20 minutes—an impossible task of course (especially since I couldn’t spend too much time on prepping it). Anyway, someone out there would be interested, so here it is:
Some credits not stated in the video: The starling murmuration video comes from NYT (travel section April 4, 2022), the Boids-like simulation from Complexity Explorables. All photos except the book covers, come from Wikipedia. The network picture comes from Helen H Jennings (1959), Sociometry of group relations. The Odum & Odum book is really called The Energy Basis for Man and Nature.
Climate, Covid, Conflict? Community…Sue Pritchard assesses risks and opportunities for a resilient food system26th May 2022
Climate, covid, conflict – Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
José Balsa-Barreiro, Mónica Menendez & Alfredo J. Morales
Scientific Reports volume12, Articlenumber:9037 (2022)
The social space refers to physical or virtual places where people interact with one another. It decisively influences the emergence of human behaviors. However, little is known about the nature and complexity of the social space, nor its relationship to context and spatial scale. Recently, the science of complex systems has bridged between fields of knowledge to provide quantitative responses to fundamental sociological questions. In this paper, we analyze the shifting behavior of social space in terms of human interactions and wealth distribution across multiple scales using fine-grained data collected from both official (US Census Bureau) and unofficial data sources (social media). We use these data to unveil how patterns strongly depend upon the observation scale. Therefore, it is crucial for any analysis to be framed within the appropriate context to avoid biased results and/or misleading conclusions…
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While Geoffrey Vickers and Gregory Bateson both worked with human systems, the background philosophies on ethics were different.
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Beginning with The Art of Judgment and culminating in 1983 with Human Systems Are Different, Vickers was concerned to avoid the narrowing of scope that had become a remarkably powerful force in both the theoretical and empirical study of organized human activity. His concept of appreciation was a pivotal element of this effort. Gregory Bateson (1972) also wished to keep the sense of “system” more open than was the norm. Yet while Vickers and Bateson admired one another’s work, they parted intellectual company on the origin and role of ethics.
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11.09, Thursday 9 Jun 2022 Link to this postIt turns out that chickens use their eyes quite differently. (I’ve been skimming paper abstracts.)The left eye distinguishes between strangers and friends – and more generally is a novelty detector.The right eye categorises and figures out what action to take.(So a chicken looking only with its right eye is poor at telling novelty.)Chickens, having eyes on the sides of their heads, look with only one eye at a time.If I wasn’t sitting here baking in the heat I would be thinking about the general lesson here – that these two ways of seeing make up the totality of how to see the world. One a process that looks for metaphors and stereotypes; the second a novelty switch. Organisations and bureaucracies need these two ways of seeing. Machines and software too.Anyway. The avian brain. Did dinosaurs specialise their eyes too?Here’s the abstract.Vallortigara, G., & Andrew, R. J. (1994). Differential involvement of right and left hemisphere in individual recognition in the domestic chick. Behavioural processes, 33(1-2), 41–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/0376-6357(94)90059-0
Idle thoughts sitting by the pool in the hot sun (Interconnected)
Growing Workforce Capacity & Capabilities for System Leadership
Growing Workforce Capacity & Capabilities for System Leadership Tickets, Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 12:00 | Eventbrite
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A webinar with our ImpACT research group.
12pm – 1pm (BST)
Tuesday 12 July
In this final in the series, we will draw on examples from organisation and system transformation working with National, Regional and System partners.
Hosted by Jonathan Webster, Professor of Practice Development & Co-Director ImpACT Research Group, UEA.
Featuring speakers and contributors:
This event is hosted by UEA Health and Social Care Partners’ ImpACT research group, which looks at sharing best practice to reinvigorate health and social care settings, seeking to enable flourishing systems, workforce and communities.
Subscribe to the ImpACT research group’s YouTube channel, where you can catch up on the previous webinars hosted by ImpACT.
Numbers are limited, so please register here.
This event will be recorded and circulated for those unable to join.
Conversations that Challenge: Failure: Does fear hold us back from changing systems?Thursday, July 712pm – 1pm
Conversations that Challenge: Failure: Does fear hold us back from changing systems? – New System Alliance
A Time for Heretics, orginal for 1996, rejected by IIBDavid Hawk1996, Transcript of Annual Meeting of EIBA
(23) A Time for Heretics, orginal for 1996, rejected by IIB | David Hawk – Academia.edu
| Are you a junior researcher? Are you interested in supporting others in systems thinking? |
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| We are looking for you!SYSTAC Europe is looking for a team of driven junior and early-stage researchers to create and design a support forum for systems thinking for health systems. The forum is expected to be place for young researchers to build confidence in their systems thinking practice by developing soft skills and technical skills through peer support. The design and activities of the forum will be decided by the team. The team is expected to jointly develop a short plan for the forum by the end of October 2022. Team members will have the opportunity to lead the forum after its launch. The SYSTAC Coordination team will provide input on as needed and the team will have the option to be part of other SYSTAC activities. During 2022, SYSTAC Europe will fund the development of the forum and travel and activity costs.If you have any experience with systems thinking and health systems research and are enthusiastic about supporting other junior researchers, send us a cover letter explaining why you are interested in being part of the team and how you would envision the support forum. Individuals and groups are welcome to apply!Duration: July – December 2022 Pay: Volunteer basisApply by sending your letter to dell.saulnier@med.lu.se by June 30th. |
Twelve potluck principles for social design
Twelve potluck principles for social design | DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
social design, design principles, manifesto, boundary objects, design research
The term ‘social design’ is used in a variety of contexts, but—or maybe because of this—it is far from clear what it means. The starting point for this paper is that there is a need for stronger and more critical community discourse to understand and clarify what social design is and what it does. By analyzing key texts, the paper identifies commonalities, disagreements and unresolved questions in relation to social design. Drawing on the example of citizen science, the paper argues for a need to develop principles for social design for further inquiry and discipline-building for social design. The paper offers twelve principles that focus on the notion of the social in social design, its methods and practices and its normative intent, as well as its critical reflexivity. These principles are intended as a ‘potluck’ boundary object to kickstart a stronger social design community. The paper reports feedback from two workshops where these principles were discussed and tested with design academics suggesting how the principles can be applied.
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