SCiO monthly events newsletter – May & June 2022

Hello,

This is the end-April monthly events mailing from SCiO. Click on the flags or group titles below to go to the events that interest you. Please remember that you can attend online events organised by any of the SCiO groups if they are held in a language you speak/understand. Further details of events may be available by clicking on the event titles below and you can also book each event directly from the Book now text.

Note that the Belgian and Netherlands groups are both now holding live events, but most others remain online. A SCiO India group has recently been set up so watch this space for meetings (to be held in English).

Some groups post events quite late, so it is always worth checking the website – also for changes to dates and times. Please click here to see all the events in a browser.

SCiO Belgium		SCiO DACH
SCiO Espana		SCiO Nederland
SCiO UK

the best,
Steve Hales

SCiO – Systems & Complexity in Organisation

website    www.systemspractice.org  

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  SCiO UK

SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – May 2022

Mon 16 May 2022 18:30–20:30 GMT+1

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems & Complexity in Organisation’s members and others. SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks, hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. This virtual session will be held on Zoom, the details of which will be confirmed nearer the time.

Systems Thinking and Adult Development in a Community Development Setting – Esther Hall

How do we transform a zombie organisation into a conscious collective? – Stephen J Brewis

All welcome; FREE; Online event; English; Book now

“Later in the bar” – SCiO UK May 2022

Mon 23 May 2022 18:30–20:00 GMT+1
“Later in the bar” is a SCiO UK networking event where we try to recapture some of the features of meeting in the bar after an open meeting. This is an opportunity to mingle freely (online) and set your own agenda. These social networking events are different from the open days (speakers and discussion) and member-only development days (each agenda slot filled set by members for learning discussions). Social networking events combine some initial small group work and provide completely open opportunities to mingle as individuals and groups. The format will vary slightly based on numbers. Please note that you will need to attend using a desktop computer (not a tablet or phone) to get the best experience.

All welcome; FREE; Online event; English  Book now

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – June 2022

Tue 28 June 2022 19:00–21:00 GMT+1

SCiO’s Development Days offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO members Development Events are both for members who are just starting out on a journey to explore Systems Thinking approaches, and for those who have many years of exploration and practice.

Members only; FREE; Online event; English; Book now

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  SCiO Belgium

SCiO Belgium – spreker sessie mei 2022 – Philippe Bailleur

Tue 31 May 2022 18:00–20:30 CET+1

SCiO Belgium SCiO is een netwerk van professionals in organisatie ontwikkeling en organisatie design, binnen en buiten het bedrijfsleven. De centrale doelstellingen zijn (1) het ontwikkelen van systeem praktijken, (2) kennis delen en schalen, (3) voorzien van ondersteuning. Deze sessie zal doorgaan van 19 tot 21u30. Details zullen gedeeld worden kort voor het event bij inschrijving. Gedurende 4 sessies zullen we een ‘deep dive’ nemen in het VSM. Meer info volgt snel (op deze link).

Kon. Astridlaan 144, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium – Members only, FREE, Dutch; Book now

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   SCiO DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)

SCiO DACH Camp in Aalen

Fri 17 June 2022 17:00 – Sat 18 June 2022 17:30 CET+1

Veranstaltung zu aktuellen Themen und Praxisbeispielen aus dem Bereich des System Thinking und der Managmentkybernetik. ● Get-together bei gemeinsamen Abendessen am Vorabend. ● Präsentation “System Laws”: allgemeine Beschreibung der “System Laws”, Aufgaben, Ziele und Charakteristika sowie mögliche Anwendungen gefolgt von einer offenen Diskussion im Anschluss. ● Bar Camp: Teilgeber können eigene Temen bzw. Vorträge präsentieren. Das Thema sollte sich an Systemansätzen und an deren praktischer Nutzung orientieren und so weit möglich Fragestellungen/Übungen für die anderen Teilnehmer beinhalten.

Karlstraße 4, 73433 Aalen, Germany; All welcome; 99-149 Euro, German  Book now

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  SCiO Espana

SCiO España participará en Catalysing Change Week

Tue 10 May 2022 15:00–17:00 GMT+1

SCiO España ha sido invotado a participar el la Catalysing Change Week junto a nuestros compañeros de SI Barcelona y Madrid para aportar nuestra perspectiva sobre el cambio sistémico y como el pensamiento sistémico puede aportar una aproximación más efectiva para enfrentarnos a problemas complejos como los que recoge los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

All welcome; FREE; Online event; Spanish; Book now

systems Thinking y constelaciones familiares

Wed 1 June 2022 19:00–21:00 CET+1

presentation by Luis Dorrego details to follow

All welcome; FREE; Online event; Spanish; Book now

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  SCiO Nederland

SCIO-NL May 2022 live meeting (in Dutch)

Fri 13 May 2022 11:00–16:00 CET+1

In het 2w kwartaal van 2022 gaan we als leden van SCIO-NL onderling in gesprek om helderder te krijgen wat we als leden van de vereniging verwachten en zouden willen krijgen.

Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; Members only; FREE; Dutch Book now

SCIO-NL June 2022 live meeting (in Dutch) –

Fri 10 June 2022 11:00–16:00 CET+1

In het 2w kwartaal van 2022 gaan we als leden van SCIO-NL onderling in gesprek om helderder te krijgen wat we als leden van de vereniging verwachten en zouden willen krijgen.

Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; Members only; FREE; Dutch Book now

Steve Hales

Membership Secretary, Treasurer, Online

SCiO – Systems & Complexity in Organisation

Mobile      07712 140422         

e-mail      steve.hales@systemspractice.org                       

website    www.systemspractice.org  

From Understanding to Impactful Action: Systems Thinking for Systems Change in Chronic Disease Prevention Research

(1) From Understanding to Impactful Action: Systems Thinking for Systems Change in Chronic Disease Prevention Research | Ray Ison – Academia.edu

Khan, Zaid (2020) Responding to Complexity with Humility: A Systems-oriented Approach to Strategic Communication. [MRP]

Responding to Complexity with Humility: A Systems-oriented Approach to Strategic Communication – OCAD University Open Research Repository

2022-05-09May 9 (the second Monday of the month) is the 100th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://intention-attention.eventbrite.ca .Intention or Attention? Humbling Design through ‘Systems Changes Learning’

Systems Thinking Ontario – 2022-05-09

Neo-SigmaThe aim of this paper is to connect the history of art to its future via a political fantasy.by Andrew Pickering

Neo-Sigma · Contemporary Arts and Cultures

The Energy Homeostasis Principle: A naturalistic approach to explain the emergence of behaviourMario Villalobos and Rodrigo VergaraUniversidad de Tarapacá y Universidad Metropolitana de las Ciencias de la EducaciónMay 5, 2022, 3 p.m. UTC // May 5, 2022, 3 p.m. in UTC

ENSO Seminar Series

Exploring the Complexity of MusicMonday, May 16, 2022, 7pm at SITE Santa FeSITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Institute are proud to present Exploring the Complexity of Music, a concert highlighting “complexity in music” as interpreted by individual composers and performers.This event coincides with the opening of a forum on Complexity and Structure of Music: Universal Features, Evolutionary Processes and Cultural Diversity that will be held at the Santa Fe Institute in the following days, and bring together network and complexity scientists, musicologists, music theorists, composers, performers, and neuroscientists to trade licks about the intersections of music and complexity from as many angles as possible. The program will feature a broad palette of works from a diverse group of composers/performers, including some from the forum participants, who will be present to engage in creative discussions with the audience.

Exploring the Complexity of Music – SITE Santa Fe

CYBERNETICS REVISITED

Posted by Lanfranco Aceti (LEA Editor in Chief) on April 14, 2018

Cybernetics Revisited

Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 22 Issue 2

Description: This volume is a hybrid collection of essays which explore current critical discourses on possible future developments in cybernetics. It investigates marginal and interstitial areas of cybernetics—conceived as a cybernetics of the third order—theorizing alternative possibilities, opportunities, and threats. Cybernetics become not solely a panacea to all the evils of humanity but also the unpredictable opportunity for new life forms that can be alternatives to current ecologies and hierarchies or that can reveal existing and unexpressed ontological possibilities inherent to nature itself.

Cybernetics Revisited – Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Technoetic Arts|| A Journal of Speculative Research

Technoetic Arts focuses upon the juncture between art, technology and the mind, drawing from academic research and often unorthodox approaches. Technoetic Arts is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the juncture of art practice, technology and the human mind, opening up a forum for trans-disciplinary speculative research. This website serves the Editorial Organism of Technoetic Arts. We keep here notes, drafts, and other internal documents. At times, we initiate projects, such as A Cybernetic Picnic, and keep related information here. Recent calls can also be found here. If you have an idea for an article but are unsure whether the topic is within the realm of what we would consider, you are welcome to use the comments below the call to ask questions. You can also write us an email at editors[.at.]technoeticartsjournal.org.For further information about the journal and author instructions, please visit the journal’s website at intellect.

Technoetic Arts

Borth from the American Association for Cybernetics email discussion group

Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model.F. G. Varela, H. Maturana, R. UribePublished 1 May 1974

Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model. | Semantic Scholar

I’m a little surprised this wasn’t already here (it may be one of the things that was on model.report and therefore the link was lost). This has cropped up again on the American Society for Cybernetics mailing list – mainly contra Luhmann. If you want a lot of these sorts of cybernetics debates, the ASC member list and the CYBSOC open mailing list (see other posts) are good.

Click to access Varela_Maturana_Uribe_1974_Autopoiesis.pdf

Transformation LiteracyPathways to Regenerative Civilizatio

Transformation Literacy | SpringerLink

This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation of the concept of transformation literacy it enhances the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, change agents and institutional actors to steward transformations effectively across institutions, societal sectors and nations.

Humanity is at crossroads. Resource depletion and exponential emissions that not only cause climate change, but endanger the health of people and planet, call for a decisive turnaround of human civilization. A new and transformative paradigm is emerging that advocates for regenerative civilizations, in which a narrative of systemic health as much as individual and collective vitality guide the interaction of socio-economic-ecological systems. Truly transformative change must go far beyond technical solutions, and instead envision what can be termed ‘a new operating system’ that helps humankind to live well within the planetary boundaries and partner with life’s evolutionary processes. This requires transformations at three different levels:

·  Mindsets that reconnect with a worldview in which human agency acknowledges its co-evolutionary pathways with each other and the Earth.

·  Political, social and economic systems that are regenerative and foster the care-taking for Earth life support systems.

·  Competencies to design and implement effective large-scale transformative change processes at multiple levels with multiple stakeholders.

This book provides key ingredients for enhancing transformation literacy from various perspectives around the globe. It connects the emerging practice of stewarding transformative change across business, government institutions and civil society actors with the most promising scientific models and concepts that underpin human action to shape the future collectively in accordance with planetary needs.

(Re)Design: frameworks, tools and scenarios for the Systemic Design ApproachDATEOn Wednesday, 4th May 2022 from 17:00 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. (UTC+2)PLACEOnline Meetup (you will receive the access link by email after your registration)

(Re)Design: frameworks, tools and scenarios for the Systemic Design approach – foryouandyourcustomers

SAVVI – a system approach to identifying vulnerability

Government Transformation | From The Public Service Transformation Academy and RedQuadrant

May 05Book Launch: Design Journeys through Complex Systemsby NamahnFollowFreeActions and Detail PanelLike EventRegisterEvent InformationKristel Van Ael and Peter Jones discuss their new book “Design Journeys through Complex Systems”.

Book Launch: Design Journeys through Complex Systems Registration, Thu, May 5, 2022 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite