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Musings from the President: Out-Going, Co-Inquiring.

By Ray Ison

Agenda 2025

Please see the Agenda 2025 at our partner Wiley, open access, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.3087

Member Essay: Centre for All Interacting Evolving Systems Science (AIESS)

By Amar KJR Nayak

AR+: Naia Begiristain on meeting dilemmas to find new cultures together.

Systems Dynamics Society – Latest Published Research

International Society for the Systems Sciences, 69th Annual Conference.

The conference will be held in the UK, at the Birmingham Leadership Institute, University of Birmingham.

• Collaboration is being arranged with the University of Birmingham and other organisations with a systems emphasis.

• The proposed dates are 11th to 15th July, 2025 and there will be morning sessions only on the 15th. Conference facilities include the main assembly room and four breakout rooms.

• There are several hotels charging $150/night or less within 15 minutes walking distance of the conference venue.

• Conference fees are currently being agreed. Online attendance and one day passes may also be available, but the details are currently being firmed up.

• Volunteers are needed to help with the operation of any online setup at the venue. Please contact Jennifer Makar at admin@isss.org if you are able to help.

• Catering will include morning and afternoon tea/coffee, snacks, a daily lunch, and a final dinner at a local pub, “The Alchemist”

• Registration will open on 1st January, 2025, or thereabouts.

See also the the ISSS Mini-Symposia – You can find the forthcoming events on https://www.isss.org/2024-2025-mini-symposia/ and the recordings here https://www.isss.org/mini-symposiums-public/

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SCiO Virtual Open Meetings

2025 Systems Awareness Research Conference at the MIT – Save the Date!

System Dynamics 2025 Conference, Boston: A Hub of Innovation

NOTES FOR A PANEL DISCUSSION: ‘KNOWLEDGE & SYSTEMS SCIENCES WITH RESPONSIBLE AI’

By Ray Ison

What is a burning topic for you in the world we live in, concerning the fields of work in which you are active?

The latest at the SRBS by Wiley Corporate Solutions to be found here – amongst many open access contributions:

Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Future of Systems Thinking

Submission deadline: December 31, 2024. More information here.

Transcending Systems Thinking: Critical Systems Integration and What’s Love Got to Do With It

Louis Klein

Evolving Risk Management Frameworks for Complex Systems—An Empirically Grounded Systems Thinking Approach

Benjamin Luther, Indra Gunawan, Nam Nguyen

Special Issue! Advances in systems sciences and systems practice Systems Research and Behavioral Science (SRBS), published by Wiley, is the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research.

Find this article, amongst many others, open access, here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991743a/2024/41/5

https://www.science.org/content/article/burgeoning-global-food-trade-lifeline-billions-is-it-breaking-planet

VOLUME 2 | Systemic Design Association

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Systemic Design Association | Contexts Volume 2 | December 16, 2024

Hello, Volume 2

Just in time for holiday reading, Contexts presents six fresh perspectives on systemic design. As you reflect on your research and practice in 2025, find inspiration in a business case for sustainable parenting, cosmotechnics, embodied practices, urban living labs, incorporating emotions, and system healing-centered approaches.

EDITOR’S CORNER | PETER HAYWARD JONES

The SDA Publishing Team has grown over the last three years (since RSD11) and has capitalized well on the two web platforms, which we have separated to better manage the growth of publications. The RSD Symposium website, under editorial direction of Cheryl May, hosts and indexes over 1500 articles and multimedia materials from all the symposia. Following the decision to accept long-form articles in RSD10, the full conference proceedings are now an accessible, searchable, citable collection of leading studies and new ideas as they are presented in the annual symposia. Yet we are truly pleased to report the continuing progress of the innovative new journal, Contexts—The Systemic Design Journal. As we roll into 2025 with the final publication of Volume 2 articles (with the Editorial signifying its conclusion) Contexts has proven the original, hopeful concept of a low-volume, long-form scholarly journal with leading work from emerging scholars and senior thought leaders in systemic design and systems/design theory. I am also excited to announce that Contexts now has a strong foundation from which to grow, as we have invited a fourth associate editor (thank you, Ruth Schmidt) and have established a 10-member editorial board. Please search and visit this extraordinary treasure of intellectual inspiration, and consider a contribution to Contexts in the coming year.—Peter Hayward Jones, Editor in Chief

Volume 2

Contexts of Design Research, Clarifying ComplexityGO TO VOLUME

In the editorial, Peter Jones describes the emerging voices, complex challenges, and inventive approaches to design science and interdisciplinary exploration evident in the second volume, which comprises six extraordinary articles representative of the authors’ larger, ongoing research directions.

An Intervention Framework for a Business Context: A systemic design case of sustainable parenthoodHow might a systemic design process feasibly enable commercial organisations to facilitate complex societal transitions? Through a case study with a leading consumer healthcare brand, Elisabeth Tschavgova, Elise Talgorn, Charlotte Kobus, Jo van Engelen, Conny Bakker, and Sonja van Dam investigate systemic design’s impact on the company’s capabilities to address complexity. They offer a dual narrative, detailing both the client project and the six research methods employed: boundary setting, causal loop diagramming, leverage analysis, storytelling, quantitative research, and the development of insight cards. The article also describes the resulting MINT framework (Mapping Interventions and Narratives for Transformation). READ & DOWNLOADActing on Emotions: Designing with the relational dramas in welfare systemsAudun Formo Hay, together with contributors from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Kristiania University College—Jonathan Romm, Simen Formo Hay, Hobbe Mikae, Jenny Holm, Bjørgum, Lara van der Poel, Yijuan Wang, Anna Kristine Aarø Halvorsen, and Per Roppestad Christensen—draw on their collaborative exploration and learning. The research aimed to integrate experiential and systemic perspectives in service design to support actors in transforming complex welfare systems and include three pairs of propositions for incorporating emotions into systemic approaches to service design. READ & DOWNLOADLearnings from Black Liberation System Entanglements Part II: Our experience of system trapsIn this article, Part II, Victor Udoewa delves deeper into the harmful, context-specific system entanglements that justice workers encounter and encourages system healing-centered approaches. He identifies 15 entanglements, beginning with Neocolonialism and progressing through Institutionalizing Movements, Mythologising Mythology, Protest-Campaign-Movement Discontinuity, and an examination of justice approaches that can inadvertently entangle us in injustice. READ & DOWNLOADMethodological Pluralism in Practice: A systemic design approach for place-based sustainability transformationsHaley Fitzpatrick, Tobias Luthe, and and Birger Sevaldson explore methodological plurality and integrate quantitative scientific methods with participatory gigamapping and embodied practices. This longitudinal design inquiry engaged with communities undergoing sustainability transformations across three mountain regions: Ostana, Italy; Hemsedal, Norway; and Mammoth Lakes, California. The authors identify the need for contemplative and psychological practices in systemic design that focus on inner resilience. READ & DOWNLOADCitylab X: Towards a lens on the urban living lab as driver of systemic innovationAnja Overdiek’s exploration of the ISLE model as a lens for systemic innovation in urban living labs (ULLs) involves the study of a municipal ULL in the Netherlands (Citylab X). She observes that European municipalities increasingly use ULLs for complex situations, demanding a paradigm shift from service design to systemic innovation and a transition approach. The ISLE model is proposed as a process that might support co-creation, provide a heuristic process framework, and mobilise knowledge across ULLs and related networks. The findings include considerations for systemic design practice in ULLs. READ & DOWNLOADCosmotechnic Encounters: Designing with foodwaste, landscapes, and livelihoodsMarkus Wernli and Kam-Fai Chan consider circularity in organic waste, drawing on Daoist cosmotechnics, design research, anthropology, and diverse economies. They suggest cosmotechnic designing with the world, concluding that designing with shapelessness, integral to systemic design with situatedness and mutualistic care, “is essentially about symbiotic survivability or sympoiesis in cosmotechnics.” READ & DOWNLOAD

CALLS FOR PAPERS & CONTRIBUTIONS

Here are just a few opportunities to get you thinking about your 2025 publishing and presenting goals. Please send information you would like included in this newsletter to cheryl@systemic-design.org.

OPENThe following journals have adopted a continuous publishing model and accept submissions at any time.Enacting CyberneticsContexts—The Systemic Design JournalJournal of Futures Studies

DEC 31 DEADLINE Expression of Interest Speakers |  Oceania Futures SymposiumAPR 3 & 4, 2025 BRISBANE AUSDesigned as a space for learning, collaboration, and action, the symposium brings together diverse perspectives and fosters dialogue on issues central to the Oceania’s future. More info

FEB 2, 2025 | TCESG25 Navigating Sustainability Transformations Towards Justice and Equity ConferenceJUNE 25–27 TCX-YORK UK | AUG 11–13 TCX-ONLINE | AUG 17 TC/ESG KRUGER NATIONAL PARK SA.Stay updated via the TC newsletter

Prepared by Cheryl May | cheryl@systemic-design.org | what’s on your list for 2025?

Viable System Model – Football Club Example

Viable System Model Blog von Mark Lambertz zu Kybernetik und Co.

and other interesting articles at

Viable System Model Explained – The Activity Series

via David Ing

Author

Han L. J. van der Maas

Published

September 30, 2024

Complex Systems Research in PsychologyAUTHORHan L. J. van der MaasPUBLISHEDSeptember 30, 2024

Complex Systems Research in Psychology

https://santafeinstitute.github.io/ComplexPsych/

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SCiO systems and complexity in organisation

15 Nov 2024

See more SCiO videos and other resources at https://www.systemspractice.org/en/re…

Jan De Visch & Kashmir Birk – Humanizing the Corporation: A Regenerative Leadership Playbook In an era where the traditional corporate paradigm often views employees merely as cogs in the machinery of profit, Humanizing the Corporation: A Regenerative Leadership Playbook offers a revolutionary perspective. This insightful guide presents seven key principles to help organizations transition toward a more humane and sustainable way of operating. Jan De Visch and Kashmir Birk explain the key ideas of their new book. Drawing on cutting-edge research and real-world examples, the authors delve into the systemic and agency components that empower leaders to make thoughtful, reflective choices in organizational development. Focusing on systemic and agency interrelationships, this playbook provides actionable strategies to foster a workplace environment where everyone can thrive. Whether you are a seasoned executive or an emerging leader, this book will equip you with the tools to create a regenerative, purpose-driven organization. Discover how to cultivate a culture that drives success and respects and nurtures the human spirit.

Humanizing the Corporation

SCiO Be – Nov 2024 – Humanizing the Corporation – YouTube

Cybernetics Society

29 Nov 2024

A Cybernetics Live session hosted on Tue 19 November 2024 1700-1900 UK with Miguel Pantaleon. Miguel Pantaleon is a systems thinker whose experience extends across public, private and political spectrums. In this session, he examines the question: Is Cybernetics losing relevance in tackling complex social problems? How do we get the concept of the feedback loop back into the public domain, how do we go forward and make cybernetics and systems thinking a standard feature of social and economic problem solving.

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Miguel Pantaleon ponders if Cybernetics is losing relevance in tackling complex social problems. – YouTube

2 Nov 2024

This is a recording of a lecture titled “Design Cybernetics – An Introduction” delivered on 23-Oct-2024 at the Department of Architecture of the South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou by Prof. Thomas Fischer and Prof. Christiane M. Herr of the School of Design of the Southern University of science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen. The lecture was hosted by Prof. Liu Yubo and Prof. Deng Qiaoming of the SCUT Department of Architecture.

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Design Cybernetics – An Introduction – YouTube

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Cybernetics:

The Cybernetics Group, Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Norbert Weiner – a Life in Cybernetics

MIT Press: Open Access Materials : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

Plus a load of systems, embodiment, information, evolution, and loads and loads of other interesting stuff

Scholarship Applications are Open for NECSI Winter Session 2025 Partial scholarships are available to support participants in studying complex systems science and its real-world applications. The deadline to apply is December 6, 2024. NECSI is dedicated to expanding access to complexity science education, equipping participants with the methodologies needed to analyze and understand the behavior of interconnected systems. Registration Details: Course Dates: 10–21 February 2025 Early Registration Pricing Ends: 23 December 2024 Email programs@necsi.edu for questions about our course options. Apply Now NECSI’s Winter Session bridges theoretical frameworks and applied methodologies, equipping participants with tools to model and analyze dynamic systems.*Knowledge of advanced mathematical methods is not necessary for this course.Email programs@necsi.edu for questions about our course options.

NECSI Academic Scholarship Application

Apply for Academic Scholarship — New England Complex Systems Institute

From Matt Lloyd on LinkedIn:

I’m hoping that my network can take 5 minutes (or less) to answer some simple questions relating to decision making. This is for my PhD research and it would be especially helpfully if people connected with small businesses could complete and/or share the link.

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All support is really appreciated.

Matt Lloyd PLY
Member of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull.
Chair of the Systems Thinking SIG at The OR Society.
Researching SMEs and Systems Thinking. Strategy and Compliance Consultant.

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 November 25, 2024  daviding

The 125th meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario coincided with the closing day for the RSD13-RSDX online program.  As a regular systems convening group, we’ve had monthly meetings since January 2013.

Zaid Khan moderated  a discussion including [David Ing], Tim Lloyd, Allenna Leonard, and Kelly Okamura.

Systems Thinking Ontario as Systems Convening | ST-ON | 2024-10-21 November 25, 2024 daviding 0 CommentsThe 125th meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario coincided with the closing day for the RSD13-RSDX online program.  As a regular systems convening group, we’ve had monthly meetings since January 2013.Zaid Khan moderated  a discussion including me (David Ing), Tim Lloyd, Allenna Leonard, and Kelly Okamura.

Systems Thinking Ontario as Systems Convening | ST-ON | 2024-10-21 – Coevolving Innovations