Adaptability is set to be the key skill for the future Jessica Schueller and Hugo Figueiredo  03 July 2021

Adaptability is set to be the key skill for the future

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91st meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario

Systems Thinking Ontario – 2021-06-14

June 14 (the second Monday of the month) is the 91st meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://synthesis-map-expo-2021-1.eventbrite.ca.

Synthesis Map Expo 2021 (#1), Strategic Foresight and Innovation program

Every year Systems Thinking Ontario hosts a series of summer evening events for presentations of synthesis maps (complex systems maps) created in systemic design courses in OCAD University graduate programs.

• This first evening, June 14, we have three presentations.
• The second evening, July 12, we’re considering to have another three presentations.
• The third evening, August 9, we’re holding if there is more interest

Synthesis maps are rich visualizations that illustrate the real-world complexity of systemic challenges, and typically used to not only “map system problems” but to propose design recommendations for systems change and policies (from health to public policy, from service experiences to social change) from evidence gathered in stakeholder research. Policymakers and organizational stakeholders use synthesis maps for strategic advising, long-term planning, and considering interventions for social and systemic challenges (wicked problems).

While we are still sorting out the final slate of presenters, we are expecting:

• Emerging Possibilities for Users in a Web 3.0 Social Media Ecology
  • Aimee Burnett, Alyssa Yuhas, Eduardo Alarcon, Emily Stover, Steph Marcil
• Social Purpose Economy in Canada
  • Elisa Arnold, Tejashri Kapura, Elizabeth Lane, Zemina Meghji and Emily Rho
• Why We Buy – A systems study of consumerism
  • Amy Morell, Nicole Brkic, Alejandra Farias Fornes, Martha Chomyn, and Razane Hanna

Venue:

• The link for a Zoom conference will be sent upon preregistration.
• It’s really too bad that we can’t use the OCADU Visual Analytics Lab to meet in person!

Suggested pre-reading:

What are Synthesis Maps and Gigamaps? at https://slab.ocadu.ca/project/synthesis-maps-gigamaps

SYSTEMS 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS THINKING $5.29 The first textbook on systems thinking written for a broad audience, and now updated for the modern reader, Systems 1 is a perfect introduction to the complex systems that make up the world around us. Originally written in 1980, it has remained a classic and a mainstay of workshops and classrooms around the world for 40 years. It has been used in courses for gifted middle schoolers as well as graduate programs. It is the introductory text in Roadmaps, the MIT course on systems theory for educators, and has been incorporated into many business and military training programs. The Chinese translation of the 3rd edition is also widely available. The book begins with a basic summary of systems theory, and proceeds through simple steps to help the reader understand some of the more complex systems that we deal with every day. It concludes with “Kauffman’s Rules,” 30 proverbs that every systems thinker needs to know. The 4th edition has been completely updated, including an entirely new chapter on exponential growth.

Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking | System Dynamics Society

Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century

Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century | Nature

Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century

• David Lazer, 
• Eszter Hargittai, 
• Deen Freelon, 
• Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, 
• Kevin Munger, 
• Katherine Ognyanova & 
• Jason Radford 

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Abstract

Science rarely proceeds beyond what scientists can observe and measure, and sometimes what can be observed proceeds far ahead of scientific understanding. The twenty-first century offers such a moment in the study of human societies. A vastly larger share of behaviours is observed today than would have been imaginable at the close of the twentieth century. Our interpersonal communication, our movements and many of our everyday actions, are all potentially accessible for scientific research; sometimes through purposive instrumentation for scientific objectives (for example, satellite imagery), but far more often these objectives are, literally, an afterthought (for example, Twitter data streams). Here we evaluate the potential of this massive instrumentation—the creation of techniques for the structured representation and quantification—of human behaviour through the lens of scientific measurement and its principles. In particular, we focus on the question of how we extract scientific meaning from data that often were not created for such purposes. These data present conceptual, computational and ethical challenges that require a rejuvenation of our scientific theories to keep up with the rapidly changing social realities and our capacities to capture them. We require, in other words, new approaches to manage, use and analyse data.

The Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change

About the Journal

Awareness-based systems change is a consciousness-based, action research approach to social transformation. It is an emergent cross-sectoral, inter- and transdisciplinary field that brings a first- and second-person lens to the field of systems thinking and systems change.

The Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change  is a place for creative scholarship that is breaking new ground in research and further evolving this emergent field. The journal aims to reveal and support rigour in these new forms of research. It is also a place for highlighting current interesting examples of promising transformative practices and to co-inquire into these. Instead of providing definite answers, the journal seeks to ask new questions. We believe new understanding will surface through emerging patterns across the range of place-based and viable solutions/approaches provided. This mirrors an important spirit of our time and moment around the collective exploration of transformation from an awareness-based perspective.

The Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change sees itself as one element of a larger intention which is to co-create a global platform which aligns and brings together a community of researchers and practitioners who, over the next decade, will advance and amplify the field of awareness-based systems change by co-developing the concepts, methods, tools and frames needed to illuminate and catalyze the evolution of social fields.

Social Field

The social field can be defined as the source conditions that give rise to patterns of thinking, conversing, and organizing in systems, which in turn produce practical results. In this way, the social field is the social system seen not only from the outside (the third-person view) but also from within (the first- and second- person views). A social field perspective addresses the less visible levels of individual, social and relational reality creation: the dynamics, processes and particularly the levels of awareness that underlie and shape the behavior we see more readily. It is a theoretical and practical innovation with significant implications for changing practice and taking a fresh look at what is needed to shift social systems.

Awareness-based systems change, therefore, is a process of co-inquiry into the deeper structures of the social systems—the source conditions—in order to see, sense and shift them.

CURRENT ISSUE

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change

Sense of Coherence Sense of coherence refers to a person’s ability to use existing and potential resources to combat stress and promote health, and it is measured based on one’s perception of manageability, meaning, and comprehensibility (Antonovsky, 1987). From: International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2020

Sense of Coherence – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Sense of Coherence

Sense of coherence refers to a person’s ability to use existing and potential resources to combat stress and promote health, and it is measured based on one’s perception of manageability, meaning, and comprehensibility (Antonovsky, 1987).

From: International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2020

The Handbook of Salutogenesis – Chapter 11 – The Sense of Coherence in the Salutogenic Model of HEalth – Monica Eriksson

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK435812/

Published online: September 3, 2016.

This section aims to describe the salutogenic construct of the sense of coherence. It begins with a reflection of the ontological and epistemological background of salutogenesis, which is not particularly described and explained to any significant extent in the publications by Antonovsky. The core concepts, the sense of coherence and the generalized resistance resources within the salutogenic model of health are explained. The measurement of the sense of coherence and the validity and reliability of the sense of coherence scales are extensively described. The sense of coherence is a concept that can be applied at different system levels, at an individual level, a group (family), on organizations and societal level. Therefore, a life cycle perspective is adopted for this section, describing sense of coherence in children and families, in adolescents and in older adults. Finally, salutogenesis, a resource-oriented approach on peoples’ abilities, is much more than the measurement of the sense of coherence. The salutogenic umbrella is here used as a metaphor for showing some related concepts.

Keywords:

Antonovsky, Aaron; Salutogenesis; The sense of coherence; Generalized resistance resources

https://positivepsychology.com/sense-of-coherence-scale/

What Does it Mean to Have a Sense of Coherence? (+Scale)

•  Leslie Riopel, MSc.
•  01-09-2020

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021): Issue # 28 | Spring/ Summer 2021 | All is in Formation: Architecture, Cybernetics, Ecology Footprint #28 examines the relation between cybernetics and architecture by focusing on a problem they both share: the production, consumption and flow of information, or, in other terms, of meaning. Therefore, cyberneticisation can set the foundations for a relational account that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original scope of living organisms and their environments in order to include ecologies of ideas, power, institutions, media and so on. In this sense, cyberneticisation is radically environmental, positing the primacy of relations over fixed terms, binary oppositions and linear logics, making it high time for architectural and urban studies to take into consideration its ground-breaking potentials. Issue’s editors: Stavros Kousoulas and Dulmini Perera DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.15.1 Published: 2021-06-29

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021): Issue # 28 | Spring/ Summer 2021 | All is in Formation: Architecture, Cybernetics, Ecology | FOOTPRINT

Footprint 28 is out now. This issue, edited by Stavros Kousoulas and Dulmini Perera, is dedicated to the theme “All is in Formation: Architecture, Cybernetics, Ecology”.

This issue includes research articles by Christian Girard; Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes; Tanja Herdt; Tim Gough; Contingent Collective; Zach Mellas; and Tewfik Hammoudi. It also includes review articles by Liz Gálvez; Iris Giannakopoulou Karamouzi; and Juliana Yat Shun Kei. The issue closes with a dialogue between Jon Goodbun and Ben Sweeting.

You can find the issue online in the following link to our platform:

https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/footprint/issue/view/880

JUL 27 Systemic praxis for water governance: Unnecessary or essential? by The Open University, Faculty of STEM

Systemic praxis for water governance: Unnecessary or essential? Tickets, Tue 27 Jul 2021 at 12:00 | Eventbrite

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Australasian Change Days 2021 #acdc2021 3 Day Virtual Event Tickets, Thu 09/09/2021 at 3:00 pm | Eventbrite

SEP 09-11

Australasian Change Days 2021 #acdc2021 3 Day Virtual Event

by Sarah Glenister – Change that matters 

Following$352 – $440

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Theme: Steering into and embracing complexity. How might we navigate the true challenge of change with intention and direction.

About this event

Join Change Makers, Managers, Activists, Leaders and Trainers from all over the world as we explore our topic over three days Thursday 9th September and Friday 10th September (3pm – 8:30pm GMT+8) and our Super Saturday that caters for more timezones to join, 11th September 7:30am – 6pm (GMT +8)

What to bring?

• curiosity
• generosity of spirit
• passion for connecting and collaborating
• FUN!

There has been a shift in the last 12 months in the conversations that are happening on the global stage which have certainly been influenced by the escalation of involvement in political and social movements as well as the increase in polarising opinions and extremism.

We would like to explore this shift with you from your role as a Change professional through our theme for #acdc2021: Steering into and Embracing Complexity and to consider how we navigate the true challenge of change with intention and direction.

**Look out for our post conference workshops (face to face in Perth) which will be held on Sunday 12th September 2021.

more and booking at

Australasian Change Days 2021 #acdc2021 3 Day Virtual Event Tickets, Thu 09/09/2021 at 3:00 pm | Eventbrite

SC101. Viable System Model – A Beginners Workshop in VSM Modelling Tickets, Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 09:30 | Eventbrite

JUL 10

SC101. Viable System Model – A Beginners Workshop in VSM Modelling

by SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation Following£20 – £50

Event Information

A whole day workshop designed for those relatively new to VSM and provides basic training in building a model of an organisation using VSM.

About this event

The Workshop

This is a whole day workshop designed for those relatively new to the Viable System Model and provides basic training in building a model of an organisation using VSM. The workshop will run from 10am – 5pm (UK time) and will be run online.

The attendees work together in groups to develop their model of a case study organisation and to diagnose weaknesses. The workshop follows a structured approach, with a series of steps that take the groups through a modelling process in (relatively !) easy stages.

The case study is based on a real organisation – a medium sized IT and office supplies company and provides a platform for developing the skills needed to take normal organisational information, show how that relates to the VSM and how the VSM can provide a set of new insights into the company.

The workshop will be run by Patrick Hoverstadt of Fractal.

Booking

The workshop is open to members and non-members of SCiO. The fee for SCiO members and students of TU811 is £20 and for non-members is £50.

Places are limited, so please book early.

book at:

SC101. Viable System Model – A Beginners Workshop in VSM Modelling Tickets, Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 09:30 | Eventbrite

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Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts

Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts

How designing for business opportunities and the rate of change may give you better contexts.

Published on 14 June 2021 by Mathias Verraes and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Imagine a wholesaler of parts for agricultural machines. They’ve built a B2B webshop that resellers and machine servicing companies use to order. In their Ubiquitous Language, an Order represents this automated process. It enables customers to pick products, apply the right discounts, and push it to Shipment.

Our wholesaler merges with a competitor: They’re an older player with a solid customer base and a huge catalog. They also have an ordering system, but it’s much more traditional: customers call, and an account manager enters the order, applies an arbitrary discount, and pushes it to Shipment.

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Splitting a Domain Across Multiple Bounded Contexts

Mapping Toronto’s Systems Innovation Landscape | Si Network

Mapping Toronto’s Systems Innovation Landscape

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Over the past decades, Toronto has emerged as one of the world’s leading cities for social and systems innovation. It has multiple communities rich in diverse expertise but as yet, not well connected into something greater than the sum of its parts. It is a city with huge potential to have a greater impact by leveraging its networks, but lack of connectivity and awareness of what this community looks like limits our capacity for collaboration and development.

The Systems Innovation Toronto Hub has been set up as a platform for developing this ecosystem in Toronto. We believe this starts with getting a view of the whole. To this end, we’ll be hosting a 75-minute co-creation “Mapping Toronto’s Systems Innovation Landscape”. We hope this will be the start of a conversation on how we can enable collaboration and the emergence of a much more robust community over time.

This will be an opportunity for you to network with people interested in innovation and systems change. You will also come away with a co-created map of Toronto’s Systems innovation landscape.

Date : Aug 11th, 12:00 – 1:15 pm EDT 

book at source (in Mighty Networks) Mapping Toronto’s Systems Innovation Landscape

Mapping Toronto’s Systems Innovation Landscape | Si Network