NOV 21 ASC Series – Against the Zoom Fatigue: A Cybernetic Picnic by American Society for Cybernetics Following 132 followers Free Actions and Detail Panel Share this event Register Event Information As the zoom fatigue spreads, we dream the dream of a dream in virtual lands. Come join us for a cybernetic picnic on the wonder.me platform. About this event ASC Speakers Series: Cybernetics and humans’ knowing Abstract As the zoom fatigue spreads, we dream the dream of a dream in virtual lands. Come join us for a cybernetic picnic on the wonder.me platform. Picnic blankets have been prepared for you. There is a fun palace blanket, a blanket with otters, a west coast blanket, a magic blanket, and many more. Choose yours! Other people will join. Be advised, entering the virtual lands is not entirely free. There is one obstruction. You have to bring with your virtual self two virtual cybernetic objects. Choose wisely. For further information about the objects and the picnic schedule, please see this link: https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/asc-picnic Technicalities: A Cybernetic Picnic will take place on the wonder.me platform. Unfortunately, wonder will not run on a tablet or phone. Participants will need to have either the edge or google chrome browser installed on a computer. No other browser will work. No other software is needed. The computer should have a camera, a microphone, and audio output. Participants will be asked to create an account when they connect to the wonder.me platform for the first time. They will also be asked to provide an initial very short description of their cybernetic objects, a maximum of 60 characters.

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ASC Series – Against the Zoom Fatigue: A Cybernetic Picnic
November 21, 2021, 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST 

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Abstract

As the zoom fatigue spreads, we dream the dream of a dream in virtual lands. Come join us for a cybernetic picnic on the wonder.me platform.

Picnic blankets have been prepared for you. There is a fun palace blanket, a blanket with otters, a west coast blanket, a magic blanket, and many more. Choose yours! Other people will join.

Be advised, entering the virtual lands is not entirely free. There is one obstruction. You have to bring with your virtual self two virtual cybernetic objects. Choose wisely.

For further information about the objects and the picnic schedule, please see this link: https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/asc-picnic

Technicalities: 
A Cybernetic Picnic will take place on the wonder.me platform. Unfortunately, wonder will not run on a tablet or phone. Participants will need to have either the edge or google chrome browser installed on a computer. No other browser will work. No other software is needed. The computer should have a camera, a microphone, and audio output.

Participants will be asked to create an account when they connect to the wonder.me platform for the first time. They will also be asked to provide an initial very short description of their cybernetic objects, a maximum of 60 characters.

Here is a brief video explaining how the wonder.me platform works

Participants BiosIannis Bardakos
Iannis Bardakos is a hunter-gatherer of forms and non-localities manifesting as an artist and a researcher of digital noetic analogue and vegetal technologies. Born in Athens, Greece, studied Mathematics, Philosophy, Applied and Fine Arts. He got involved in the praxis of art with hybrid media projects, animated films, interactive installations, cross-media practical and speculative research as an artist, director, and producer. Iannis is an educator, academic and aesthetics explorer, currently in a nonlinear oscillation between Athens, Paris and Shanghai. He is a member of the Editorial Organism of the Technoetic Arts journal.

Claudia Jacques
A Brazilian-American interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and researcher, Claudia Jacques de Moraes Cardoso holds an MFA in Computer Art (School of Visual Arts, NY) and a PhD in Integrative Art with a focus on Interactive Art. Inspired by Roy Ascott and Søren Brier, she researches space-time experiences in the user-information-interface relationship through the lens of Cybersemiotics. She is a member of the Editorial Organism of the Technoetic Arts journal and serves as Art+Web Editor for Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Jacques teaches studio, digital and communication arts, and her studio is in Ossining, NY.

Claudia Westermann
Claudia Westermann is an artist and architect and Senior Associate Professor in Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She holds postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Media Art and obtained a PhD in Integrative Arts from CAiiA, Planetary Collegium, supervised by Prof. Roy Ascott. Her work has been exhibited and presented widely internationally at conferences and exhibitions. She is a member of the Editorial Organism of Technoetic Arts and sits on the Executive Board of the American Society for Cybernetics as part of Members-at-Large.

Further information:https://ta.pubpub.org/pub/asc-picnic

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What the physics of crowds can tell us about the tragic deaths at Astroworld [UPDATED] 8 people were killed and 25 were hospitalized in a crush during Travis Scott’s set. JENNIFER OUELLETTE – 11/9/2021, 1:04 AM

What the physics of crowds can tell us about the tragic deaths at Astroworld [UPDATED] | Ars Technica

Systems convening: its role in the spread of innovation and improvement – with Diane Ketley Author of the new NHS Horizons publication ‘Leading the Spread and Adoption of Innovation and Improvement: A Practical Guide’ Diane Ketley will share the key role played by systems convening in this change and innovation work. Get Involved Communities of Practice Leadership Development Programme Q Visits Q Exchange Network Weaving: learning series Journals and Learning Resources QI Connect WebEx series Upcoming events Past events Your events Add your event Live streaming and webinar tools Resources Your resources Add your resource Report: The role of improvement during the response to COVID-19 Supporting local learning 11 Nov 2021 16:00 – 17:00

Systems convening: its role in the spread of innovation and improvement – with Diane Ketley | Q Community

Relational Systems Thinking: A Conversation with Melanie Goodchild Tue, November 23 4:00pm – 5:00pm GMT Meeting Add to Calendar Meeting Link Going Maybe Not Going 29 members are going Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/sinetwork Learning about systems thinking is one thing. Living in the world of systems thinking is a totally different thing. Please join us for tea and conversation with Melanie Goodchild, an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar and a moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations in Ontario, Canada. We will explore Relational Systems Thinking, the nexus and the sacred space between Indigenous place-based wisdom and Western science-based abstract knowledge, how the two opposite knowledge systems can peacefully co-exist and dance together, and why both are needed to enable the practice of awareness-based systems change and deal with complex problems facing humanity and Mother Earth. The conversation will start with a tea service led by Sly from the Turtle Island Institute, an Indigenous social innovation think and do tank and a teaching lodge. So please have your tea ready when you join the session. The session will be facilitated by Joanne Dong from the Si Toronto Hub.

Relational Systems Thinking: A Conversation with Melanie Goodchild | Si Network

Relational Systems Thinking: A Conversation with Melanie Goodchild

Tue, November 234:00pm – 5:00pm GMTMeetingAdd to CalendarMeeting LinkGoingMaybeNot Going

Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/sinetwork

Learning about systems thinking is one thing. Living in the world of systems thinking is a totally different thing. Please join us for tea and conversation with Melanie Goodchild, an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar and a moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations in Ontario, Canada.

We will explore Relational Systems Thinking, the nexus and the sacred space between Indigenous place-based wisdom and Western science-based abstract knowledge, how the two opposite knowledge systems can peacefully co-exist and dance together, and why both are needed to enable the practice of awareness-based systems change and deal with complex problems facing humanity and Mother Earth.

The conversation will start with a tea service led by Sly from the Turtle Island Institute, an Indigenous social innovation think and do tank and a teaching lodge. So please have your tea ready when you join the session.

The session will be facilitated by Joanne Dong from the Si Toronto Hub.

Systems Thinking for Transformational Innovation – Meetup Event by Si London Hub Better Space, The Ray Building, 127 Farringdon Road Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (your local time)

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Coping with a complex messy world: Education for the 21st century and beyond Critical Thinking—surfacing and rebutting fallacious arguments/claims–is one of the most important skills in dealing with Wicked Messes. Ian Mitroff

Coping with a complex messy world: Education for the 21st century and beyond – NationofChange

source:

The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic — SFI Press

The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 is the virus that proved the fragility of the world. It took only the simplest form of life to shake the connectivity and dependency of society. This book is a real-time record and recommendation from a community of complexity scientists reacting to the pandemic. Through nontechnical articles, interviews, and discussions spanning the early days of the pandemic through the fall of 2021, researchers seek ways to stay responsive to complexity when every force conspires toward simplicity. The Complex Alternative encompasses immunology, epidemiology, psychology, inequality, and collapse. It is an effort to preserve perspective at a time when partiality seeks dominion.

Edited by David C. Krakauer and Geoffrey West, this book features the thoughts of more than sixty members of the Santa Fe Institute’s research community on the future of complexity science and the broader significance of science in the twenty-first century.

source:

The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the COVID-19 Pandemic — SFI Press

h/t Mikael Seppala

TRANSITIONS HUB Policy Lab FULL CLIMATE-KIC SITE About Us Policy Lab Knowledge Library Collaborations Contact Us About the Lab Welcome to the Policy Lab, a space for knowledge development that enables science-policy-practice interface on system thinking and transitions. 

Policy Lab – Transitions Hub

TRANSITIONS HUB

Policy Lab

About the Lab

Welcome to the Policy Lab, a space for knowledge development that enables science-policy-practice interface on system thinking and transitions. 

they also produced:

Handbook Challenge-led system mapping: A knowledge management approach (18 May 2020) https://transitionshub.climate-kic.org/publications/challenge-led-system-mapping-a-knowledge-management-approach/

Ep36: Wholehearted work Is Crucial To Your Business. Learn Why! Benjamin Taylor – CX RedQuadrant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfgoQroTcM

I thought I had shared this before (maybe on model.report?) and I’m not exactly sure of the validity of the comparison; the core table itself shows that the other two models are talking about levels of thinking capability, and Beer is not (Beer is talking about different meta-languages) – but, interesting.

Models of Work Complexity: A Comparison of the SST, VSM and IPM

Cognadev | Blog | Models of Work Complexity: A Comparison of the SST, VSM and IPM

April 4, 2019 | By Maretha Prinsloo

Understanding Society Daniel Little

Saturday, November 6, 2021

How are institutions sustained, reproduced, and changed? Institutions are “supra-individual”, in the sense that they establish a context of identity and mental-framework formation for all individuals, and they create the environment of choice for the current actions of individuals. Further, they exercise an influence that is beyond the control of any particular individual or group of individuals. But at the same time, institutions are constituted at a given time by individuals and their mental frameworks, actions, and interactions with other individuals. This is the thrust of the idea of ontological individualism. This raises an important question for sociological theory: what are the chief mechanisms through which institutions preserve their properties over time and personnel change, and what mechanisms lead to change in institutions over time?

Understanding Society: How are institutions sustained, reproduced, and changed?

Cybernetics Expert Advocates for Systems-Led Thought Process and Balancing Risk with Innovation By Mark Cooper November 4, 2021

Cybernetics Expert Advocates for Systems-Led Thought Process and Balancing Risk with Innovation – Urban Land Magazine

Cybernetics Expert Advocates for Systems-Led Thought Process and Balancing Risk with Innovation

By Mark Cooper

November 4, 2021

Technology, cybernetics, and the importance of innovation were at the heart of the final day of ULI Asia Pacific’s REImagine virtual conference.

Keynote speaker Dr. Catherine Ball, a scientific futurist, spoke about the important of using systems-led thinking in order to build better cities and spaces. She introduced the audience to the concept of cybernetics, which she defined as “the triangle of humans, technology, and the environment.” She noted that many ULI members, especially architects and engineers, might realize they have been working inside cybernetics but had never really thought of it like that. A building in a city or a city’s streets can be seen as cybernetic systems.

Ball also spoke about the importance of innovation. “I recently presented to some [corporate] directors in New Zealand,” she said, “and asked them if they had a risk committee. Of course, 100 percent did. However, far fewer had an innovation committee.” Yet innovation and risk are two sides of the same coin, she argued.

Scientific Futurist, Dr Catherine Ball demystifies how a cybernetic approach that considers how people, technology, and environment intersects, can be a powerful tool to anticipate and prepare for disruptions in the built environment at #ULIREImagine.https://t.co/iFNsKBA3eJ pic.twitter.com/ELGOoD0XkA

— ULI Asia Pacific (@ULIAsiaPacific) November 3, 2021

One of the key human skills is problem-solving, however we need to be better at identifying problems in order to apply solutions, which may already exist, she said. Systematic thinking is required to apply technology to problem-solving. Cybernetics can be an active way of looking at problem identification and problem solving, thinking about a project in terms of technology, humans, and the environment.

She asked people involved in development projects to consider the phrase converge, diverge, emerge. Developers and planners should look at how the technologies they use are converging and how they help build a better city. Divergence refers to the separation of technologies, which might include leaving it out, for example leaving green space apart in cities rather than trying to integrate green space into buildings. Finally, emerging technologies need to be considered because they “are changing everything about how we’re going to live, work and play in the next few years.”

Ball is one of the world’s leading experts on the applications of drone technology and postulated a future in which drone charging stations might become a feature of all major buildings in the future, as gargoyles were on medieval buildings in Europe.

Another way to think systematically about projects or problems is to consider what is possible, what is probably, and what is preferable, she said. “If you can think about the possible, probable, and the preferable, it will give you a futurist point of view on how we try and think about the future and how it’s coming.”

The second part of the program looked at how ULI member firms in Asia Pacific are innovating and integrating technology into their businesses. Sven Sylvester, corporate innovation lead at Taronga Ventures, presented the results of a joint survey with ULI Asia Pacific, to understand was how different real estate organizations are structured to deliver innovation.

The survey found that 60 percent of companies had established a technology team and that just over half (53 percent) of these said their innovation strategy met or exceeded their expectations. Meanwhile 36 percent of respondents said their firm has established an innovation team, but a much higher proportion (89 percent) of these said their innovation strategy met or exceeded their expectations, suggesting a dedicated innovation strategy was advisable. However, only 20 percent of firms had appointed a chief innovation officer.

The survey found that 62 percent of firms are already partnering with tech companies, 42 percent were developing new tech products internally, and 35 percent were directly investing in tech companies. The key areas for innovation for respondents were data analytics, cited by 63 percent, project management (62 percent), and transaction management (61 percent). However only 27 percent were innovating to source capital, which Sylvester suggested showed an opportunity for the industry.

Perhaps understandably, the biggest obstacle to innovation was resistance to change, cited by 53 percent of respondents, as well as “business-as-usual conflicts,” i.e., innovation having to compete with everyone’s day job. Lack of resources for innovation was only cited by 28 percent, however.

A panel of real estate professionals discussed the findings of the report and agreed that education and communication was crucial to creating an innovative company as was having KPIs which encouraged innovative behavior.  The education process also needs to be collaborative across the value chain of real estate, said Jean de Castro, CEO of ESCA, a Philippines-based engineering consultancy.

Ivan Ko, CEO, Hong Kong and China at Kailong Group, said the disruptive effects of the pandemic had made people more interested in innovation and keener to engage, while Herbin Koh, director and growth equity lead at Gaw Capital Partners, said experimentation at a smaller scale helped his firm boost innovation overall.

A FRAMEWORK FOR CHANGING COMPLEX SYSTEMS

How do you change complex systems?

Thursday, November 25, 2021 Systems Thinking FishBowl

Systems Thinking FishBowl | Meetup

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Systems Thinking FishBowl

David WitneyHosted by
David Witney and 2 othersSystems At PlayPrivate group?Thursday, November 25, 2021
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM GMT

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Hi Systems Thinkers,

This time last year we kicked off the community with our first meetup event and every alternate month since then thanks to our speakers we have had a session to share their wisdom on all things systems thinking.

To mark our first year as a Systems Thinking Community and as the last event for 2021, we have invited our past speakers to be a part of a panel discussion using the “fishbowl” technique.

If you have not heard about the concept of a FishBowl, it has an inner circle of speakers and an outer circle of listeners, and a spare chair is present in the inner circle for the outer circle to join the inner circle – but one at a time. We will give you more info on the FishBowl approach at the start of the session.

The speakers we have confirmed for this event are:
– Joan Lurie: CEO of Orgonomix, Organisational Ecologist
– Pauline Roberts: Entrepreneur, Lecturer, & Systems Practitioner
– Bryan Hopkins: Sustainability learning and development consultant
– Luke Craven: Strategic designer, researcher and systems change practitioner
– You: Systems At Play Community Members

Please visit our YouTube channel to watch the recorded talks and appreciate if you can subscribe:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo3t9w3qN0JNOCoIQIEyFnw

We sincerely thank all our speakers for the gifts they brought to our community this year – we are truly awed by their wisdom and thankful for their contributions.

It has been a privilege for us, the Organizers, to be able to bring these talks to you, our community, and thanks to your participation we have reached over 230 systems thinking enthusiasts.

*Our ask of you*:
We would love to hear from you on what you think might be good topics to talk through.

We have also chosen to support the Waters Centre and we ask you to make a small or big donation to their cause so they can offer more free resources connected to their systems thinking outreach.

They are an official US 502(c)(3) charitable organization, serving people from all around the world by offering online learning modules, facilitation guides, and resources.

The money raised will go towards supporting the creation of digital flip cards of the Habits of a Systems Thinking in other languages.

This is a trust based contribution and we hope you make a donation to this charity if you have registered for the free event:

https://thinkingtoolsstudio.waterscenterst.org/donate

The Joker in the Box or The Theory Form of the System Dirk Baecker

(53) (PDF) The Joker in the Box or The Theory Form of the System | Dirk Baecker – Academia.edu

 The Joker in the Box or The Theory Form of the System

Dirk Baeckerin: Cybernetics and Human Knowing 9 (2002), pp. 39-62 

ABSTRACT:

Compared with traditional theories, systems theory presents a deviation. It re-places causal explanation by functional explanation. This paper shows what scandalon is in-herent in this substitution and elucidates some models (self-organization, dance, non-triviality, structural coupling) which put the explanatory principle to work. The paper con-cludes by showing how systems theory aims at a general concept of communication that notonly means a passing on of knowledge but above all the tracing of ignorance. Overall, sys-tems theory is presented as a joker dealing with the paradox that the system is never identicalto itself as soon as it is considered as a function of itself and its environment. The system hasto withdraw into the function it is a function of in order to enfold this paradox