ECAS Systems MapThe Systems Mapping process was facilitated by Scott Spann (Innate Strategies) and involved over 80 public and private partners in 2012.  The map documents the array of systems’ components within Hawaii’s early childhood system.  The map spotlights potential levers of change that would have the greatest impact for improving the lives our youngest children.Click the map above to see an enlarged, PDF version of the map. You can learn more about the process followed during the mapping process by reading and watching the videos on the post “Building Shared Understanding Through System Mapping.”

ECAS Systems Map — Early Childhood Action Strategy

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6 The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics 

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Philip Husbands,

Owen Holland

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262083775.003.0006

• Published: February 2008

The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics | The Mechanical Mind in History | MIT Press Scholarship Online | Oxford Academic

Oct 23, 2022 | 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST

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Join us for a lively discussion of the distinction that has been a defining feature of the American Society for Cybernetics since at least 1974.

Abstract

This is an interactive panel discussion that asks the questions: Has the distinction between 1st and 2nd order cybernetics run its course, now sufficiently embedded in our cybernetic practice and thought to move on? That is, is the practice of cybernetics self-aware, explicitly embedding responsibility (and, at least implicitly, ethical considerations) when doing whatever we do? Even if not yet sufficient, should we nudge ourselves in new directions anyway?  What’s next?

Participants:

Tom Scholte, University of British Columbia
Claudia Westermann, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Howard Silverman, Willamette University
Mark Johnson, University of Manchester
(Im)Moderator: Larry Richards, Indiana University East

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For background information, see the Wikipedia page on Second Order Cybernetics

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Systems change: all things to all people?

Systems change: all things to all people? – Renaisi

Reifying Systems Thinking towards Changes | ST-ON 2022-10-17

 October 20, 2022  daviding

The October online meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario presented an opportunity for an update on progress made by the Systems Changes Learning Circle by 2022.  A slide deck had been prepared an in-person seminar at the Universitat de Barcelona Graduate Programmes in Business, organized by Ryan C. Armstrong, one week earlier. 

Reifying Systems Thinking towards Changes | ST-ON 2022-10-17 – Coevolving Innovations

Ready-ing

Here is a link to the new Ready-ing paper published in the journal of Systems Reseach and Behavioral Science. If it does not open the paper is pasted below.

Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sres.2896

An essay on ready-ing: Tending the prelude to change

Nora Bateson

First published: 21 September 2022

https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2896

Heiko Specking, Mervi Porevuo, Goran Janson, Motaz Attalla, Eeva Hellstrom, Steve Freedman, Mihela Hladin and Tim Gasperak are collaborating authors.

Funding information: There are no sponsors or grants for this work.

Abstract

Complexity of living systems is characterized by multicontextual, constant responsive change. This creates continuation of some patterns and discontinuation of others. While change is predictably constant, it is unpredictable in direction and often occurs at second and nth orders of systemic relationality. So what makes a living system ready to change? This is a theory of change that changes a theory of change. Before the change there is a coalescence of factors and experiences that produce a undeterminable ready-ing instead of action. What if, instead thinking of a theory of change being produced from an identified preferred goal or outcome, the focus instead was placed on the way in which a system becomes ready for undetermined change? Can unforeseen ready-ness be nourished? While linear managing or controlling of the direction of change may appear desirable, tending to how the system becomes ready allows for pathways of possibility previously unimagined.

Ready-ing. Here is a link to the new Ready-ing… | by Nora Bateson | Oct, 2022 | Medium

Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General SemanticsAlfred KorzybskiLakeville, Conn., International Non-Aristotelian Library Pub. Co.; Distributed by Institute of General Semantics (1935)

Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics – PhilPapers

COMPLEXITY & STUPIDITY

COMPLEXITY & STUPIDITY

November 13, 2016

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris talks to biologist David Krakauer about information, complex systems, and the future of humanity.

Sam Harris | Complexity & Stupidity

Knowing Better via Systems Thinking | U. Barcelona 2022-10-10

 October 16, 2022  daviding

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Just before starting a trip to Spain, I received an invitation from Ryan C. Armstrong at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School to give some lectures.  The students in the bachelor’s programme in international business had a short mention of systems thinking in the first lecture of the operationa management class.  With that brief entry, this lecture was an opportunity to introduce a broader view of the traditions of systems thinking, in addition to the practices, theories, and methods under development by the Systems Changes Learning Circle in Toronto.

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Application of Open Systems Theory to establish Active Adaptive Organisations

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Application of Open Systems Theory to establish Active Adaptive Organisations, Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 3:00 PM | Meetup

Introduction to Complexity Science Concepts and Applications

Gain new insights that reframe your thinking, specific tools to advance current projects, and perspectives to set new directions.

October 18 – November 18

Course access begins October 18

New England Complex Systems Institute

October 17 (the third Monday of the month, dodging Thanksgiving) is the 104th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is at https://reifying-systems-thinking.eventbrite.ca .

Reifying Systems Thinking towards Changes

In 2012, at the 56th Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Systems Sciences, an aspiration of “Rethinking Systems Thinking” was proposed. In 2019, the rise in interest in “systems change” led to the formation of the Systems Changes Learning Circle, centered in Toronto, Canada. Now 4 years into a 10-year journey, research publications and presentations are being released.

In 2022, the Systems Changes Learning approach features three concepts: (i) rhythmic shifts; (ii) texture (leading to contexture); and (iii) propensity. Practices developed are depicted as hub of “knowing from within” appreciated through a cycle of learning along four spoke. Theory-building through multiparadigm inquiry includes philosophies of science underlying Classical Chinese Medicine and ecological anthropology.

This presentation was originally created for an in-person meeting at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School Graduate Programme in Business on October 10, 2022. The slides have been published, and will be reused for an online presentation at Systems Thinking Ontario on October 17, and recorded.

Venue:

• The link for a Zoom conference will be sent upon preregistration.

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