Beer’s Viable System Model and Luhmann’s Communication Theory: ‘Organizations’ from the Perspective of MetagamesSystems Research and Behavioral Science (2013)23 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2013 Last revised: 2 Aug 2013Mark JohnsonUniversity of BoltonLoet Leydesdorff
Beer’s Viable System Model and Luhmann’s Communication Theory: ‘Organizations’ from the Perspective of Metagames by Mark Johnson, Loet Leydesdorff :: SSRN
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American Society for Cybernetics: Engaging Conflict and other forms of Asynchronicity with Jude Lombardi and Tom Scholte – online, Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 12:00noon EDT
A dialogue about possible ideas and models relevant to cybernetics when “engaging conflict and other types of asynchronicity.
By American Society for Cybernetics
Sun, March 19, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
Engaging Conflict and other forms of Asynchronicity Tickets, Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite
Systems Thinking Ontario – 2023-03-13 Ecological Limits to Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals – celebrating the open access release of The Ecological Limits to Development with Katie Kish and Stephen Quilley
March 13 (the second Monday of the month) is the 108th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://ecological-limits.eventbrite.ca .
Ecological Limits to Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals
This session celebrates the open access release of The Ecological Limits to Development!
Katie Kish and Stephen Quilley critique and reimagine the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The existing SDGs are challenged through perspectives of ecological economics and complexity thinking. New goals that align more thoroughly to biophysical limits to growth are suggested.
Ways in which this set of new SDGs could be made usable for Canadian municipalities are also considered.
From the book description …
Booking link and more in source:
- Drawing on ideas from H.T. Odum, Herman Daly, Zigmunt Bauman, and many others, this book provides guiding research for a convergence between North and South that is bottom-up, household-centred, and predicated on a re-emerging domain of Livelihood.
Systems Thinking Ontario – 2023-03-13
Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making | JSCI – Coevolving Innovations
Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making | first Systems Changes article by David Ing in peer reviewed journal JSCI
March 9, 2023 daviding
A special issue on “Sustainable, Smart and Systemic Design Post-Anthropocene: Through a Transdisciplinary Lens” in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics edited by Marie Davidová, Susu Nousala, and Thomas J. Marlowe has been released. In that issue, the journey of the Systems Changes Learning Circle from 1999 through 2022 is reviewed.
Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and reifying rhythmic shifts for doing, alongside thinking and making | JSCI – Coevolving Innovations
Two Major Misconceptions of Systems Thinking exposed – By BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Quality SG , Mon 3 Apr 2023 at 19:30 UK time | Dr Joseph Kasser and Bruce Lerner
Apr 03
Two Major Misconceptions of Systems Thinking exposed – Quality SG
Exposing two misconceptions related to approaches to understanding complex problems discovered while reviewing the history of GST
By BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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When and where
Date and time
Mon, 3 April 2023, 19:30 – 21:00 BST
Location
Online
About this event
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Mobile eTicket
SPEAKERS
Dr Joseph Kasser DSc, CEng2, CM, FIET, FIES, G3ZCZ from Australia
Mr Bruce Lerner M.Sc. B.Sc., SDMRM, MIEEE, MINCOSE from USA
Two Major Misconceptions of Systems Thinking exposed – Quality SG Registration, Mon 3 Apr 2023 at 19:30 | Eventbrite
The Systems Thinking Summit – A place for systems thinkers to meet, 15-17 Mary 2023 online 7-10pm New York time
I’ll be speaking at this – the event is just coming together, watch this space…
The first independent systems thinking summit
15-16-17 May 2023 online
7-10 pm New York time
The Systems Thinking Summit – A place for systems thinkers to meet
Hayek and systems|cybernetics|complexity – a set of Hayek links on this website
EconPapers: The Pretence of Knowledge – Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture, 1974
(The paper which Graham Berrisford alleges looks like a riposte to Stafford Beer’s CyberSyn – in any case, a useful and interesting piece of systems thinking)
EconPapers: The Pretence of Knowledge – Hayek’s Nobel Prize Lecture, 1974
The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data | The Nation – Greg Grandin
The Anti-Socialist Origins of Big Data | The Nation – Greg Grandin
ADAM SMITH AND THE “MAN OF SYSTEM” – Knowledge Problem
Cybernetics and behaviourism – Hayek 1920, Pask 1970, Parallel Distributed Processing, 1987,Ana Teixeira Pinto, 2013
Hayek: The Knowledge Problem – Jeffrey A Tucker, Foundation for Economic Education
Hayek: The Knowledge Problem – Jeffrey A Tucker, Foundation for Economic Education
On Hayek’s “Kinds of Order in Society” – Boudreaux
The Genealogy of Complexity – Cosma Shalizi (2003/2021)
Complexity science in the name of politics: a travel diary – Petter Holme
Comment by Bian Cox linking to the next two pieces:
The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization – Hancock
(Including a link to a relevant London Review of Books podcast)
The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization – Hancock
h/t Brian Cox
The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-OrganizationPost authorBy jhiblogPost dateJuly 29, 2022By Maxfield Hancock
The Best of Bees: Friedrich Hayek and Stafford Beer at the 1960 Symposium on the Principles of Self-Organization – JHI Blog
See also the London Review of Books podcast:
The Hayek Puzzle
Jonathan Rée and Thomas Jones
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/the-hayek-puzzle
Blog 3: Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich Pictures – Ideas in ALL – Williams and O’Donnell
Blog 3: Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich PicturesResearch Stream: Stories/Lived ExperiencesAuthors: Bob Williams, Systems Thinking Practitioner, Trainer and Evaluator – Consultant. Joan O’Donnell, Systems Thinking Trainer and PhD Researcher at Maynooth University’s Assisting Living and Learning Institute, Research Funded through the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies (ADVANCE CRT)
Blog 3: Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich Pictures – Ideas in ALL
call for papers: Complex System Approaches to 21st Century Challenges: Inequality, Climate Change, and New Technologies | Santa Fe Institute July 31- August 2, 2023
Complex System Approaches to 21st Century Challenges: Inequality, Climate Change, and New Technologies
Complex System Approaches to 21st Century Challenges: Inequality, Climate Change, and New Technologies | Santa Fe Institute
Inclusive Systemic Thinking for transformative change – Lewis and Stephens
Inclusive Systemic Thinking for transformative changeMarch 7, 2023By Ellen Lewis and Anne Stephens
Inclusive Systemic Thinking for transformative change – Integration and Implementation Insights
Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95 – Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
I’m not quite sure what to think of this podcast yet, but/and this episode really pulls together loads of interesting ideas – and makes me think of ‘robust systems’ in Barry Oshry’s terms (https://www.quality-equality.com/what-lies-beneath-a-human-systems-perspective), of differentiation and integration in Sandra Janoff’s terms (https://www.robertsandkay.com/differentiation-integration-weisbord-janoff, after Yvonne Agazarian) etc…
Clerestory (Bryan Kam) ›Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95
Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, Kuhn, A. C. Graham/Sonnet 95
Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms | Jordana Cepelewicz
Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly SwarmsStudies of collective behavior usually focus on how crowds of organisms coordinate their actions. But what if the individuals that don’t participate have just as much to tell us?
Jordana Cepelewicz
Out-of-Sync ‘Loners’ May Secretly Protect Orderly Swarms | Quanta Magazine
2023 Conference – Metaphorum (20 years after Stafford’s passing): Viability through emancipation – or the hidden agenda of viability. Manchester, UK, 8-10 June 2023
2023 Conference
Metaphorum Conference (20 years after Stafford’s passing)
Viability through emancipation – or the hidden agenda of viability
Manchester, UK
8 – 10 June, 2023
2023 Conference – Metaphorum
SCiO monthly events newsletter – March & April 2023
This is the end-February 2023 monthly events mailing from SCiO. Click on the flags or group titles below to go to the events that interest you. Please remember that you can attend online events organised by any of the SCiO groups if they are held in a language you speak/understand (and you are a member if it is a member-only meeting). Further details of events may be available by clicking on the event titles below and you can also book each event directly from the Book now text.
The SCiO Ireland group has now arranged its first online meeting for March on the highly topical subject of ‘Systemic Transformations to Sustainable Futures’ and invites enquiries.
Note that some groups post events quite late, so it is always worth checking the website – also for changes to dates and times. Please click here to see all the events in a browser.
The SCiO/Cherith Simmons Apprenticeship is now running, please continue to register expressions of interest. For more information click here.
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SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – Mar 2023
Mon 20 March 2023 18:30–21:00 GMT
Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems & Complexity in Organisation’s members and others. About this Event SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. This virtual session will be held on Zoom.
All welcome; Free; Online event; English; Book now
SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – April 2023
Tue 18 April 2023 18:30–20:30 GMT+1
SCiO’s Development Event offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO members Development Events are both for members who are just starting out on a journey to explore Systems Thinking approaches, and for those who have many years of exploration and practice. This event is a ‘special’ development event on Systems Practice and the Climate/Ecological Emergency. It will be interactive and a great opportunity to to learn together.
Members only; FREE; Online event; English; Book now
SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – May 2023
Mon 15 May 2023 18:30–21:00 GMT+1
Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems & Complexity in Organisation’s members and others.
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet – George Monbiot
Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations – Bryan Hopkins
All welcome; Free; Online event; English; Book now
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Systemic Transformations to Sustainable Futures
Wed 22 March 2023 16:00–17:30 GMT
This first meeting of the new SCiO Ireland chapter will be online with two speakers arranged. For further information and to register- join the mailing list for SCIO Ireland by clicking on Enquire or Book Now.
Speakers: Anne Pender, University College Dublin; and Dr. Tadhg O’Mahoney, Research Fellow at
Dublin City University Centre for Climate & Society, and an expert advisor at the Finland Futures Research Centre.
All welcome; Free; Online event; English; Enquire or Book now
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SCiO Belgium – spreker sessie – Jan Achterbergh
Tue 14 March 2023 18:00–20:00 CET
In deze sessie zal Jan vooral inzoomen op het HOE. Immers, Beer (de grondlegger van het Viable System Model) gaat wel in op de functies die levensvatbare systems dienen te realiseren, maar hij besteedt weinig aandacht aan de eigen aard van de structuren en technologieën die daarvoor nodig zijn. Eenvoudig gezegd: Beer zegt wel WAT een systeem moet kunnen om levensvatbaar te zijn. Maar HOE je dat dan kan organiseren, bijvoorbeeld door de inrichting van de structuur van een organisatie, blijft bij Beer onderbelicht.
All Welcome; Online event; FREE; Dutch; Book now
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SCiO DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)
SCiO DACH – Krankenhausführung aus systemtheoretischer Sicht am Beispiel von VSM
Matvei Tobman
Thud 20 April 2023 19:00–20:30 CET+1
Members only; FREE; Online event; German; Book now
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No meetings planned for March and April yet – please check the website.
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SCIO-NL monthly meeting (live in Vianen and in Dutch)
Fri 10 March 2023 11:30–15:30 CET
SCIO-NL komt elke 2e vrijdag van de maand live bijeen in Vianen (Hagenweg 3c). Er staan geen vaste onderwerpen op de agenda (daarvoor organiseren we specifieke andere meetings), maar de ervaring leert dat er altijd wel een interessant gesprek op gang komt over een systemisch onderwerp.
Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; All welcome; FREE; Dutch Book now
SCIO-NL monthly meeting (live in Vianen and in Dutch)
Fri 14 April 2023 11:30–15:30 CET+1
SCIO-NL komt elke 2e vrijdag van de maand live bijeen in Vianen (Hagenweg 3c). Er staan geen vaste onderwerpen op de agenda (daarvoor organiseren we specifieke andere meetings), maar de ervaring leert dat er altijd wel een interessant gesprek op gang komt over een systemisch onderwerp.
Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; All welcome; FREE; Dutch Book now
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