Making the System Shift

28 Nov – 2 Dec 2022

A free online festival for people creating different systems for a better future

What does it really take to shift a system? Join us with 50 of the boldest system innovators from across the world as we take a deep dive into the practical realities of shifting systems towards better futures.

Learning Festival 2022: Making the System Shift — The System Innovation Initiative

Do you have an experience of practicing Systems Thinking that you’d like to share? … any aspect of using methods, or of systemic intervention?
If so, would you like to speak at a SCiO Open Event (www.systemspractice.org), for about an hour, about your experience?
We run Open Events every two months, some face-to-face in London or Manchester, or Monday evenings via Zoom. If that’s appealing, please contact tony.korycki@systemspractice.org, to find out more.

Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a (Further) Life (1989, 2010)A Systems Library, Vol. 28Photo by Steve Johnson from PexelsIn this new addition to the Systems Library, I focus on two books — Composing a Life, and Composing a Further Life — published 20 years apart by the same author, Mary Catherine Bateson. Mary Catherine, who died early in 2021 at the age of 81, was the daughter of cyberneticist Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) and anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901–1978). The younger Nora, who was born of Bateson’s marriage to Lois Cammack, is Mary Catherine’s half-sister.

Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a (Further) Life (1989, 2010) | by Philippe Vandenbroeck | Oct, 2022 | Medium

More to read in the Systems Library:

Vol. 27: Hilary Bradbury: How to Do Action Research for Transformations (2022)

Vol. 26: Francis Laleman: Resourceful Exformation (2020)

Vol. 25: Keller Easterling: Medium Design(2020)

Vol. 24: Ian Cheng: An Emissaries Guide to Worlding (2018)

Vol. 23: Janis Birkeland: Positive Development (2008)

Vol. 22: Michel Serres: The Natural Contract (1990)

Vol. 21: Henk Oosterling: Resistance in Times of Ecopanic (2020)

Vol. 20: Ray Ison & Ed Straw: The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking (2020)

Vol. 19: Andreas Weber: Enlivenment (2019)

Vol. 18: Luc Hoebeke: Making Work Systems Better (1994)

Vol. 17: Donella Meadows: Thinking in Systems (2009)

Vol. 16: Lois Holzman: The Overweight Brain (2018)

Vol. 15: Hanne De Jaegher: Loving and Knowing. Reflections for an Engaged Epistemology (2018)

Vol. 14: Judi Marshall: First-person Action Research: Living Life as Inquiry (2016)

Vol. 13: Jocelyn Chapman (Ed.): For the Love of Cybernetics (2020)

Vol. 12: John Morecroft: Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics (2007)

Vol. 11: Antoine de St Exupéry: Flight to Arras (1942)

Vol. 10: Edgar Schein: Humble Inquiry (2013)

Vol. 9: Peter Block: Community. The Structure of Belonging (2008)

Vol. 8: Valerie Ahl & Timothy Allen: Hierarchy Theory (1996)

Vol. 7: Herbert Simon: The Sciences of the Artificial (1969, 1998)

Vol. 6: Donald Schon: Beyond the Stable State (1971)

Vol. 5: Barry Oshry: Seeing Systems (2007)

Vol. 4: Béla Bánáthy: Guided Evolution of Society. A Systems View (2000)

Vol. 3: Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh: The Path (2016)

Vol. 2: Stafford Beer: ‘Designing Freedom’ (1974)

Vol. 1: John Law and Annemarie Mol (Eds.): ‘Complexities’ (2014)

RNS Journal … | New design pattern science for working with natural systems.

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022  11 AM EDT
Bioregional Regeneration Summit – Register Here (free) 

Tuesday, Nov 1, 2022  11 AM EDTBioregional Regeneration Summit – Register Here (free) 

RNS Journal … | New design pattern science for working with natural systems.

[I’ve seen the map itself many times, and this page at least once before – the famous ‘systems map’ (which is revealed to actually be an influence diagram) was recently used to illustrate https://stream.syscoi.com/2022/10/21/systems-change-all-things-to-all-people-beth-stout-renaisi/ – on facebook, Greg Brougham linked the main thing – which I see was authored by Philippe, Vandenbroeck, Dr Jo Goossens, Marshall Clemens – and the full documents are quite interesting]

Reducing obesity: obesity system map – GOV.UK

Research and analysisReducing obesity: obesity system mapVisual representations of the different factors that influence levels of obesity.From:Government Office for SciencePublished17 October 2007

Reducing obesity: obesity system map – GOV.UK

Research and analysis

Reducing obesity: obesity system map

Visual representations of the different factors that influence levels of obesity.From:Government Office for SciencePublished17 October 2007Get emails about this page

Documents

Tackling obesities: future choices – obesity system atlas

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Tackling obesities: future choices – full systems map (high resolution)

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Tackling obesities: future choices – building the obesity system map

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This report presents the visual representations of the obesity system map developed to understand the wide range of different factors that influence levels of obesity and how they interact.

The accompanying report includes a full description of the methodology used to create these maps and guidance on how to interpret them.

This report was commissioned as part of the Foresight project on tackling obesities.

Published 17 October 2007

The Holos Earth Project

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With our man-made constructed environment humanity has left an unprecedented footprint in this so-called ‘Anthropocene’. With our built environment’s impact on the natural environment, especially because of our resource extraction and waste, not only have our construction activities impacted nature, it has fundamentally impacted human social organisation. This comes at a cost of meaningful experience.

Join our free interactive on-line webinar – Thursday 10th November @ 18h30 London time https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduivrzwuHd1ySK15mp9ISjNwjiRgKEqN

What is our built environment doing to us as a species? Come explore a model of human ecology for future habitat design. | LinkedIn

Australian cybernetic: a point through timeat Theatre, National Library of Australia | Wednesday, 9 November 2022 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)

Australian cybernetic: a point through time – Sticky Tickets

Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic TelegraphThis is the first of two public lectures by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics18 Oct 2022EventsCollapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic TelegraphREGISTER2 November, 6–7.15pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic Telegraph | ANU School of Cybernetics

(In multiple layers of irony, these appear to be face-to-face events only?!)

Collapsing Time and Space: Seeing the Future in the Transatlantic Telegraph

This is the first of two public lectures by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.

Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics
18 Oct 2022

Events

REGISTER

2 November, 6–7.15pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

The Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of EntanglementThe ANU School of Cybernetics is proud to host this public lecture by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics18 Oct 2022EventsThe Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of EntanglementREGISTER3 November, 12.30–1.30pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

The Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of Entanglement | ANU School of Cybernetics

The Cloud is Hungry and Thirsty: States of Entanglement

The ANU School of Cybernetics is proud to host this public lecture by Professor Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin.

Written by: ANU School of Cybernetics
18 Oct 2022

Events

REGISTER

3 November, 12.30–1.30pm (This event is FREE but registration is essential)

Education- and Income Inequality as Drivers of Violent Property Crime in South Africa: A System Dynamics Modelby Felix Adam 1 andSara Grobbelaar 1,2,*

Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Education- and Income Inequality as Drivers of Violent Property Crime in South Africa: A System Dynamics Model

Not endorsing MDPI, but this looks like a very interesting paper.

Fall 2022 – Power, Justice, and Systems Change Webinar SeriesYou are invited to an international conversation about power in the systems change field and the role of equity and justice work in changing systems. 

Fall 2022 – Power, Justice, and Systems Change Webinar Series — Illuminate Systems

This Friday, join the conversation!
On The Edge of Systems Change and socio-environmental transformation
FRI, OCT 28, 4:00PM (EST), On The Edge of Systems Change, from the Illuminate Network. A clubhouse chat With Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis & Luis Alejandro
Join Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia, in conversation with Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis about socio-environmental transformation, her journey to this work, and the development of creative solutions to social and environmental problems.

Ana Lucía is co-founder of Arare Corporation, a civil organization dedicated to support and nourish territorial organization and socio-environmental regeneration processes in Colombia and Latin America.

This is an opportunity for candid conversation with time and space for listeners to contribute thoughts via chat and to be “handed the mic,” to ask questions or share reflections.

When: October 28th, 4:00-5:00pm ET
Where: Illuminate Network Clubhouse
https://www.clubhouse.com/event/PN2yzB0l?utm_campaign=82uXVAvqLzLUQY8DlcaA7w-406634&utm_medium=ch_event
Download the Clubhouse app on your phone to join the conversation!
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