Where: South downs room, 3rd Floor, Mithras House, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN31FR

Book tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-methodologies-seminar-systems-theatre-with-tom-scholte-tickets-510688552207

Brighton’s Radical Methodologies Research Group is delighted to welcome Tom Scholte from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, who will be sharing their work in resolving systemic conflicts through theatre practice.

Scholte is a nationally recognized actor who has appeared in dozens of films, TV shows and plays. Recently, the UBC theatre and film professor has turned their attention to the role that theatre can play in resolving conflict and bridging division. As the artistic director of Conflict Theatre at UBC — a collaboration between Human Resources, the Department of Theatre and Film, and Equity & Inclusion — Scholte uses the tools of forum theatre to help faculty and staff work approach workplace conflict differently. By rehearsing new strategies for difficult conversations, Scholte says participants build resilience, empathy, and emotional intelligence.

Scholte is vice-president of the American Society for Cybernetics and their recent work has drawn on the creative arts to develop what they have termed “critical cybernetics”.

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Brighton’s Radical Methodologies Research Group explores counter-conventional approaches to research and practice across varied contexts and disciplines. Centred in design, the group looks to question the roots of methodological assumptions (hence radical – from the Latin radix, or root) and to promote exchange between discourses that tend to get separated out by institutional, disciplinary and departmental structures.

Edited by Alexander Riegler and Pille Bunnell

With five target articles written by
+ Fritjof Capra
+ Alexander Kravchenko
+ Nelson Vaz
+ Jorge Mpodozis
+ Randall Whitaker
and 37 open peer commentaries and author’s responses.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

== EDITORIAL ==

Bunnell P. & Riegler A.
A Plurality of Perspectives: Maturana’s Impact on Science and Philosophy
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== TARGET ARTICLE ==

Capra F.
The Organization of the Living: Maturana’s Key Insights
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Open Peer Commentaries

Cummins F.
Integrating Autopoiesis into a Scientific Account of Embodiment
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Kenny V.
A Radical Epistemological Severance
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Kordeš U.
When Studying the Mind, What Domain Is Being Investigated?
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Luisi P. L.
Reflections on Autopoiesis, the Signature of Life
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Ochoa-Arias A., Jerardino-Wiesenborn B. & Paucar-Caceres A.
Maturana’s Ontology of the Observer and Cultural Biology: Understanding
the Organization of Living
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Villalobos M.
The Concepts of Mind and Cognition in the Autopoietic Theory
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— Author’s Response —

Capra F.
Further Reflections on Maturana’s Key Insights
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Kravchenko A. V.
The Maturanian Turn: Good Prospects for the Language Sciences
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— Open Peer Commentaries —

Braver A.
Good News for the Language Sciences
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Sinha C.
Twists and Turns: Ahead of or Behind the Curve?
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Kenny V.
Maturana and Wittgenstein: Resisting Assimilation Together
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Sangati E.
Turning Language-Science Prospects into Science
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Raimondi V.
Maturana on Language Origins and Human Sociality
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Cowley S. J. & Gahrn-Andersen R.
Languaging in an Enlanguaged World
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Bartesaghi M.
Considering Observation
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Rodríguez Gómez S.
Stories Explaining Meaning
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— Author’s Response —

Kravchenko A. V.
Towards a Paradigm Change in Language Studies
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== TARGET ARTICLE ==

Vaz N. M.
Maturanian Observer-Dependent Immunology
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— Open Peer Commentaries —

Pordeus V.
Paradigmatic Shift in Immunology: Implications for Medicine,
Pathophysiology and Public Health Policies
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Booth R. J.
What Components Contribute to the Immune System?
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Kravchenko A. V.
The Distinctions We Make as Observers Affect Theory Adequacy
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Swiatczak B.
Immunoglobulins and Antibodies: Conceptual Projections All the Way Down
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Andrade L. A. B.
Nelson Monteiro Vaz’s Contributions to Immunology
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— Author’s Response —

Vaz N. M.
Further Reflections on the Language of Immunology
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Mpodozis J.
Natural Drift: A Minimal Theory with Maximal Consequences
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Vargas A. O.
Natural Drift: New Foundations for Understanding Evolution
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Veit W. & Browning H.
Darwinian and Autopoietic Views of the Organism
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Young J.
Revisioning Planetary EmergencE/Y Through the Lens of Natural Drift
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Etxeberria A. & Cortés-García D.
What is Special about Natural Drift as an Organism-Centered View of
Evolution
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Räwel J.
Autopoiesis: A Concept With Even More Far-Reaching Consequences for
Evolutionary Theory
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Rubin S.
Is Natural Drift a Mechanism?
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Mpodozis J.
On Machines and Natural Drifts
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Whitaker R.
In Maturana’s Wake: The Biology of Cognition’s Legacy and its Prospects
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Baron P.
Using Social Media to Take Maturana’s Biology of Cognition Into the
Mainstream
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Urrestarazu H.
On Pedagogical Tactics when Applying Maturana’s Biology of Cognition
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Westermann C.
From Within, or the Domain of Design Practice
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Gash H.
Educing the Social from the Biology of Cognition
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Scholte T.
Potential Contributions to a Critical Cybernetics
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Gaggero S.
Five Questions about Humberto Maturana’s Way of Seeing and Explaining
our Human Living
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Whitaker R.
In the Wake of “In Maturana’s Wake”
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A Theory of Emergence and Entropy in Systems of SystemsAndreas Tolk2013, Procedia Computer Science

(78) A Theory of Emergence and Entropy in Systems of Systems | Andreas Tolk – Academia.edu

September 2004

• Organization Studies 25(7):1233-1254

DOI:10.1177/0170840604046361

William H. Starbuck

• University of Oregon

Years ago, I believed that rationality could manufacture understanding. I lived in physical and social environments that were real and I wanted to understand the social realities. I wanted to create a genuine ‘behavioral science’ based on mathematical models, computer simulation, and systematic experiments. Various experiences over the years have challenged these beliefs. I discovered that rationality can not only be a deceptive tool but a potentially dangerous one, and I learned a few techniques to help me challenge my rational thought. I discovered that research findings have very low reliabilities, that some fields make no discernible progress over many decades, and that societal cultures strongly influence researchers’ judgments about what constitutes useful knowledge. I saw that much that passes for research is merely random noise dressed up in pretentious language. Rather than realities, the social systems I was studying proved to be arbitrary categories created by observers or social conventions. I became an advocate for research that actively attempts to change situations rather than merely to observe what happens spontaneously.

(PDF) Why I Stopped Trying to Understand the Real World

INCOSE Launches the Future for Systems Engineering (FuSE) Initiativeto Deliver the SE Vision 2035

INCOSE Launches the Future for Systems Engineering (FuSE) Initiative to Deliver the SE Vision 2035

2019

Umpleby, Stuart. “How Cybernetics is Contributing to Traditional Disciplines” (Slides) (Video)

2016

Umpleby, Stuart, “Vladimir Lefebvre’s Theory of Two Systems of Ethical Cognition”(Paper) (Slides) (Video)

2014

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Science: Logic, Strategies, Methods” (Paper) (Slides) (Video)

2013

Umpleby, Stuart. “Second Order Cybernetics Then and Now” (Abstract) (Slides) (Video) (pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4, pic5);  

2012

Umpleby, Stuart, “A Second Expansion of Science” (Slides) (Audio lecture)

2006

Umpleby, Stuart, “Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics:  A Tutorial.”  (Slides 1, 2, 3, 4) (Exercises) (Video)

Lectures on Cybernetics – Stuart Umpleby’s Website

Keynote Speakers

Rodney Irwin, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Ray Ison is Professor of Systems at the Open University and President of the International Federation of Systems Research.

Registration guidelines

The registration fee for the two-day event is £250 including lunch, one evening meal and refreshments. Students/retirees £125. Further donations to the work of the society are gratefully acknowledged.

To book a place please visit this link.

Call for contributions

Papers are invited to contribute to the following streams

Sustainability research- what can systems offer?
Barriers to change – how can systems thinking/practice help overcome them?
Methodologies -evaluating system methods for intervention and transition
Cross disciplinary research -the contribution of Systems to interdisciplinarity
Knowledge Transfer-continuity or transformation?
Power and Accountability- Systems perspectives
The question of scale and transition – spatial and chronological
Policy making and its impact upon the process of transition
Food Systems and their impact upon Healthy diets
The NHS -A system to…?
Sustainable Systems in Business
Details of participation and submissions

Abstracts: from the 31st of March 2023.
Close for abstracts/submissions: 30th June
Review of submissions by 30th July
Revised submissions/full papers 31st of August.
Conference publication of accepted abstracts 15th September.
Publication of proceedings – January 2024
To submit please see here.

Presentations will F2F and in plenary. Special dispensation for Zoom-based presentations might be considered in special cases but please note the cost of registration remains the same.

For full details of the conference keynote speakers, submission process, registration and accommodation in Oxford please see the conference flyer.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-systems-society-international-conference-2023-tickets-461932942867

PS Please pass the flyer on to anyone you think might benefit from this conference – thank you and see you in September 2023.

The first Systems Thinking Ontario session for 2023 is scheduled for January 9, on “Root Metaphors and World Hypotheses”.  This is philosophical content, for which a guided tour and discussion will be better than attempting a solo reading of the World Hypotheses wiki on the Open Learning Commons.  Upon announcing the session on social media, I was honoured to receive a response from Michael C. Jackson, OBE…

 January 4, 2023  dividing

World Hypotheses, Contextualism, Systems Methods

Soon after networks became all the rage among statistical physicists, the field turned away from the home turf of complex systems science. This blog …

The quiet revolution: When complex left networks