Cento Edgar Morin – Un omaggio all’umanista planetario
Cento Edgar Morin
Un omaggio all’umanista planetario
Dialogo a più voci con alcuni autori del volume
Cento Edgar Morin
100 firme italiane per i 100 anni dell’umanista planetario
a cura di Mauro Ceruti
Cento e più ragioni per onorare lo studioso, il maestro e l’amico, che oggi, nel pieno di questa gravissima crisi mondiale, indica l’orizzonte di un nuovo umanesimo planetario e continua a motivare alla resistenza contro ogni forma di barbarie, per costruire insieme reti e oasi di solidarietà, di fraternità, di pensiero creativo. Per uscire, insieme, da questa “Età del ferro dell’Era planetaria”.
Intransitivity
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This article is about intransitivity in mathematics. For other uses, see Intransitive (disambiguation).
In mathematics, intransitivity (sometimes called nontransitivity) is a property of binary relations that are not transitive relations. This may include any relation that is not transitive, or the stronger property of antitransitivity, which describes a relation that is never transitive.
This paper addresses several issues of broad concern in the United States: population trends; the quality of urban life; national policy for urban growth; and the unexpected, ineffective, or detrimental results often generated by government programs in these areas.
The author does attempt to indicate how multiloop feed-back systems (to which our social systems belong) mislead us because our intuition and judgement have been formed to expect behavior different from that actually possessed by such systems. At times programs cause exactly the reverse of desired results.
It is now possible to explain how such contrary results can happen. There are fundamental reasons why people misjudge the behavior of social systems. There are orderly processes at work that frequently lead people to wrong decisions when faced with complex and highly interacting systems. Until we come to a much better understanding of social systems, we should expect that attempts to develop corrective programs will continue to disappoint us.
June 29-30, 2021, TAIPEI — On behalf of the Taiwan National Development Council, ZA Share is hosting the 2021 Taiwan International Education Summit (TIES) completely online from June 29 to 30. The theme of TIES this year is The INNER and INTER-changes of Creative Changemakers, with the aim to move beyond the narrow focus of the technical or financial needs of changemakers seeking the common good, to bring public and key stakeholders’ attention to the holistic needs for their nourishment and growth as “whole persons.”
Curated in the spirit of human ecology, 2021 TIES will be split into four tracks to cover the Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Social, and Ecological Dimensions of a “Changemaker’s Journey” as a whole person, to foster interdisciplinary learning and the systemic awareness of the world’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) nature, as amplified by the outspread of COVID-19.
In each of the four tracks, there will be an invited expert from both the Eastern and Western countries, and a selected Open Mic Representative selected from a pool of self-nominated speakers to bring an “Intercultural Mash-up” of perspectives. The line of 12 speakers range from world-renowned Sir Geoff Mulgan, systems and collective intelligence scientist, former head of policy in the UK Prime Minister’s office, and co-founder of Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), to a group of self-nominated 7th-graders from Taoyuan Chungli Junior High School who’ve dedicated themselves to addressing the challenges arose with new immigrants in their school and communities.
The format of TIES creates a fully immersive digital bilingual learning experience, which integrates active and thematic learning from the pre-event Open Mic Speaker self-nomination challenge to the highly interactive online TIES itself, to openly demonstrate the holistic spirit of Taiwan’s National 12-Year Basic Education in a bilingual, digital, and public context. The integral design of TIES also manifests the National Development Council’s determination to bridge its bilingual nation, education innovation, digital transformation, and regional revitalization agendas.
2021 TIES is completely free to attend. The TIES Opening Ceremony/Press Conference will be held online at 14:30, June 29, 2021 (Taipei Time, UTC+8).
For more information, please visit: https://forms.gle/FdkEVXtMZkzRFA4r9 (Registration Form in English)
Participatory modeling is a purposeful learning process for action that engages the implicit and explicit knowledge of stakeholders to create formalized and shared representation(s) of reality. In this process, the participants co-formulate the problem and use modeling practices to aid in the description, solution, and decision-making actions of the group. Participatory modeling is often used in environmental and resource management contexts. It can be described as engaging non-scientists in the scientific process. The participants structure the problem, describe the system, and create a shared understanding of how the system works. This can further lead to more quantitative analyses, and may sometimes result in a computer model of the system, which is then jointly used to test policy interventions, and propose one or more solutions. Participatory modeling is often used in natural resources management,[1] such as forests[2] or water.[3][4]
There are numerous benefits from this type of modeling, including a high degree of ownership and motivation towards change for the people involved in the modeling process. It also helps to develop more acceptable solutions and often creates more consensus among the stakeholders involved.
Wikipedia isn’t great on this – the summary in this paper is better:
Participatory modelling: A review of applications in energy whole-systems modelling to support decision making – Catherine Bal
Topaasia: Systems Intelligence – Interview with Esa Saarinen and Raimo Hämäläinen
The Systems Intelligence is the result of the joint research work of the philosopher Esa Saarinen and professor emeritus Raimo Hämäläinen, which has been developed in Aalto University since 2001. The Systems Intelligence combines human sensitivity with the world changing engineering thinking. Topaasia – Systems Intelligence game is based on this research and made in collaboration with Esa and Raimo. We interviewed gentlemen about systems intelligence, applying it to the Topaasia format and how it can benefit organizations playing it.
Systems Intellect is a collection of human competencies
As a human being you are always part of a bigger whole or a system. The System Intelligence is the hallmark of man’s ability to strive for success in the systems, where he lives his life. It is human ability to improve life. People can easily see things in small sections and problems, instead of building a successful whole. Systems Intelligence gives you the tools to think about whether something should be done in a different way?
In the Systems intelligence, the talents already present in the human being is named so that people becomes more aware of them. The Glossary that is used aims to change and stimulate action. It is not a theory which, from the outside, depicts someone’s reality, which can be internalized and transferred to their own activities. Instead, systems intelligence is something that a person himself already does, but can do more or better. It’s a promise to be better at what you’ve been good in already and before. The aim of Systems intelligence is not only to understand the systems, but also to act in them. It aims to launch human growth process.
Areas of The System Intelligence. Source: Esa Saarinen The course Philosophy and systems thinking in Aalto University. Lecture 8 – The philosophy of the whole
Systems Intelligence (SI) is a concept introduced in 2004 by the principal investigators. The research group develops the conceptual basis of this competence and studies its different forms and manifestations in personal and organizational contexts. We seek to distribute knowledge and stimulate interest in Systems Intelligence in different fields including management practices, learning organizations, education, human relationships, etc.
By Systems Intelligence we mean intelligent behaviour in the context of complex systems involving interaction and feedback. A subject acting with systems intelligence engages successfully and productively with the holistic feedback mechanisms of her environment. She perceives herself as part of the whole, the influence of the whole upon herself as well as her own influence upon the whole. Observing her own interdependency with the feedback-intensive environment, she is able to act intelligently.
We have also developed a test for self-evaluation. You can take the SI-test here. If you want to use the SI-test in your own projects you can find related material and instructions here.
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