antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 12:58 pm on June 16, 2020

Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions: theory, methods and practice – NIHR School for Public Health Research

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Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions

Developing a systems perspective for the evaluation of local public health interventions: theory, methods and practice

Research Team: Professor Mark Petticrew, Dr Matt Egan, Professor Karen Lock, Professor Steven Cummins, Professor Richard Smith, Elizabeth McGill, Professor Martin White, Professor Dame Margaret Whitehead, Professor Jennie Popay, Professor Martin O’Flaherty, Dr Lois Orton, Dr Frank de Vocht, Professor Russ Jago, Professor Petra Meier, Dr John Holmes, Professor Sarah Salway, Dr Harry Rutter, Dr Cecile Knai, Dr Zaid Chalabi, Lesley Mountford & Monwara Ali

Who’s involved: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, University of Bristol & LiLaC

June 2017 – November 2018

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 8:53 am on June 16, 2020

The Bristol Bridge Problem

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[Written as part of Notebook Blog Month.]

Last year I walked the Bristol Bridge Walk with my brother. This is a 28 mile circuit in the style of Königsberg’s famous bridge problem, where every bridge in Bristol (or more accurately, every footbridge across the Avon) has to be crossed exactly once. It was designed by Thilo Gross, who figured out that Bristol’s bridge problem can be solved, unlike Königsberg’s. At least until they build more bridges and mess it up.

I wrote a Twitter thread on this a while back but thought I’d try an expanded version here. The interesting bit for me is how much of Gross’s work in creating this route was in defining the problem, mapping all the mess of modern Bristol onto a clean mathematical model.

The original Königsberg bridge problem has the following structure, with four land masses and seven bridges:

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:42 am on June 16, 2020

CCSS Meeting #34 (online): Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points – with Tim Lenton – Universiteit Utrecht (online) – 15:00 (presumably Utrecht time) on Friday 19th June 2020

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CCSS Meeting #34 (online): Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points – Current affairs – Universiteit Utrecht

CCSS Meeting #34 (online): Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points

We cordially invite you to join us at our virtual Centre for Complex Systems Studies external linkon Microsoft Teams to meet other complexity researchers where you won’t miss out any online activities from us as well.

This lecture is an online discussion organised within the Transitions with Complex Systems series.

Due to the current situation which many of our community have found ourselves in, we have decided to adapt our schedule to bring you an updated series of online lectures and discussions.

This Series: Complexity & Transitions

This academic year at the CCSS we are holding two series of lectures. Under our ‘Complexity & Transitions’ series, we host guest lectures from researchers from a variety of discplines whose research focuses on transitions within complex systems. Please see our upcoming Events for details on our other reading series.

Speaker Overview

Tim Lenton external linkis Professor of Climate Change and Earth Systems Science at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the Earth as a system, placing a focus on how life reshaped the planet in the past, and what lessons we can draw from this. A main area of his work examines tipping points and early warning signals in the Earth system, particularly focusing on the implications of crossing tipping points and the actual thresholds in the Earth’s climate system. Tim’s passion for studying the Earth’s systems was ignited after reading Jum Lovelock’s books on Gaia, which was mentioned in his recent publication in Science, Gaia 2.0 – Could humans add some level of self-awareness to Earth’s self-regulation?

Abstract

I will summarise recent evidence regarding climate tipping points, which supports declarations that we are in a ‘climate emergency’.

I’ll also show our latest results identifying a human climate niche and projecting how it will move in the future.

Then I will turn to identifying positive social tipping points that will need to be triggered to have any hope of limiting global warming to well below 2°C.

Meeting Details

There will be 60-min lecture from our speaker, followed by a 30-min Question & Answer session.

To attend the lecture, please click this link external linkat 15:00 on Friday 19th June 2020.

You are free to join the event without a Microsoft Teams account, the link above will direct you to open Teams on the web or download the program, and you can easily join the event as a guest in Teams.

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:20 pm on June 15, 2020

Generation C – A Hybrid Symposium Publication, put on by the Center for Complexity, June 15-19, 2020 – Daily Posts and Proceedings

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Generation C

#generationc

Put on by the Center for Complexity at RISD

Funded by Infosys

A Hybrid Symposium Publication

June 15-19

Daily Posts and Proceedings

About

RISD’s Center for Complexity (CfC) is hosting a five-day virtual symposium, open to all, during the week of June 15th-19th. New content will be posted each day.

The core of the week-long event is a series of essays organized around seven themes we are calling ‘Compasses’.

Crisis & Capacity

Culture & Constructs

Collapse & (re)Construct

Chaos & Control

Contact & Constraints

Commons & Capital

Compasses & Calibrations

The title—Generation C—is meant to evoke the generational changes needed to address capitalism, climate, community, and complexity among many other challenges. We’ve adapted the term from Ed Yong’s incisive reporting. He used it to name the children now being born who will live in a society profoundly altered by COVID-19 and the choices made in response.

The CfC has assembled a group of thinkers and makers to offer their insight on a series of current and critical topics. We hope that you will find their work thought-provoking and that you will be inspired to add your wisdom to the combined insight of an engaged community thinking together.

We began our planning during a moment of disruption in public health. We make this invitation during a moment when American society has erupted in protest, confronting the racist legacies and present that shape the systems we study. The protests began as a result of police violence but are undeniably connected to the inequitable response to COVID-19 and the wider injustices that persist in our society.

This is a time for many kinds of action. This symposium is a platform to share ideas about the critical work of charting pathways forward. If you wish to think deeply with us, we welcome you to the Center for Complexity 2020 Symposium.

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:58 pm on June 15, 2020

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System – in Roam Research

A hyperlinked and reverse-linked copy of Donnella Meadows’ classic Leverage Points piece, set up in www.roamresearch.com by Bardia Pourvakil

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Metadata: Author: [[Donella Meadows]] Source: Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Recommended By: [[David Perell]] Tags: #Essay Notes #complex systems #Science #Systems Theory
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 7:03 pm on June 14, 2020

System Dynamics meets COVID-19, May 2020 – UK Systems Dynamics – YouTube

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywqMIbNuvY

also by the same person

Erik Pruyt (2013) Small System Dynamics Models for Big Issues: Triple Jump towards Real-World Dynamic Complexity
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:10980974-69c3-4357-962f-d923160ab638/datastream/OBJ/link.pdf

Thanks to John Raven for the links

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:03 pm on June 14, 2020

Causal texture, contextualism, contextural – Coevolving Innovations, David Ing

Causal texture, contextualism, contextural

June 9, 2020 daviding 0 Comments

In the famous 1965 Emery and Trist article, the terms “causal texture” and “contextual environment” haven’t been entirely clear to me. With specific meanings in the systems thinking literature, looking up definitions in the dictionary generally isn’t helpful. Diving into the history of the uses of the words provides some insight.

1. Causal texture
2. Contextualism and contextural
3. Texture
4. Causal
5. Transactional environment, contextual environment
Appendix. Retrospective on the 1965 article from 1997

The article presumes that the reader is familiar with the 1965 Emery and Trist article,. The background in the Appendix provides some hints, but is more oriented as context in a history of science.

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 2:16 pm on June 14, 2020

Hegel, Dialectics and POSIWID:

Harish's Notebook - My notes... Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science.

In today’s post, I am looking at Hegel’s dialectical approach and using it to gain a better understanding of the purpose of an organization. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) was a German philosopher who furthered the ideas of German Idealism in Philosophy after Immanuel Kant. Hegel’s writing is quite dense and he is often considered to be one of the hardest philosophers to understand. With this introduction, I should note here that my post is “inspired” by his dialectical approach.

When we look at a phenomenon say “A”, we are speaking about our understanding of “A”. This understanding automatically brings in the opposite or “notA” to the realm of the understanding. We can denote “notA” as “!A”. Our understanding of “A” lies somewhere between “A” and “!A”. To improve our understanding of “A”, we should also look at “!A”. This is a very simple view of Hegel’s dialectic…

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 12:45 pm on June 14, 2020

Behavioral responses in an ecology (via For Better or For Worse) – Systems Changes – Open Learning Commons

Our recent explorations into the development of psychology (back to Tolman, Brunswik, Pepper from 1931) and systems thinking coincides with the appearance of a comic strip rerun in the Saturday Toronto Star.
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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:46 am on June 14, 2020

Causal Texture of the Environment – Coevolving Innovations – Doug McDavid notes

Link to original article (free pdf) at https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/04/15/the-causal-texture-of-organizational-environments-emery-and-trist-1965/

Causal Texture of the Environment June 10, 2020 dougmcdavid 0 Comments For those who haven’t read the 1965 Emery and Trist article, its seems as though my colleague Doug McDavid was foresighted enough to blog a summary in 2016! His words have always welcomed here, as Doug was a cofounder of this web site. At the time of writing, the target audience for this piece was primarily Enterprise Architecture practitioners. [DI]
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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 7:24 am on June 13, 2020

The Dialectic of Bottom-up and Top-down Emergence in Social Systems – Fuchs and Hofkirchner, 1970

The Dialectic of Bottom-up and Top-down Emergence in Social Systems January 1970TripleC 3(2):28-50 DOI: 10.31269/vol3iss2pp28-50 LicenseCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Christian FuchsWolfgang Hofkirchner

(19) (PDF) The Dialectic of Bottom-up and Top-down Emergence in Social Systems

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 7:23 am on June 13, 2020

Social relations: Building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy – Hofkirchner – 2019

Social relations: Building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy Wolfgang Hofkirchner First published:29 April 2019
Social relations: Building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy – Hofkirchner – 2019 – Systems Research and Behavioral Science – Wiley Online Library

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 7:22 am on June 13, 2020

A bit more on socio-technical systems

Published: 03 May 2019

Socio-Technical Perspectives on Smart Working: Creating Meaningful and Sustainable Systems

Information Systems Frontiers volume 22, pages281–298(2020)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-019-09921-1

Podcast:

Episode 34 covers an important article by Eric Trist and Ken Bamforth, “Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Longwall Method of Coal-Getting,” published in the journal Human Relations in 1951. Eric Trist was a British social scientist best known for his contributions to the field of organization development and one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute. Ken Bamforth was a miner and industrial fellow of the Tavistock Institute.
34: Sociotechnical Systems – Trist and Bamforth – Talking About Organizations Podcast

Summary of the classic Trist and Bamforth piece:

http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/barley_articles/trist_coal.html#:~:text=Trist%2C%20E.%20L.%20and%20K.%20W.%20Bamforth%20(1951).&text=Basically%20the%20conversion%20to%20the%20longwall%20method%20destroyed%20the%20social%20relations.&text=The%20new%20mechanized%20longwall%20method,each%20shift%20did%20different%20things.