The Cornell Systems Summit will be held at the four-diamond Statler Hotel on the Cornell Campus, and packed with renowned speakers, informative sessions, roundtable discussions, and ample time to network and meet new collegues from around the globe.
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Schedule | Systems Engineering
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This week’s free to attend International Society for the Systems Sciences mini-symposia event features Benjamin P. Taylor
Direct Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gv6HUcYs
Saturday 26th October 2024
9 AM New York/ Eastern US time, 2pm UK, 1pm UTC
How can we engage positive dynamics of differentiation and integration in developing systems / cybernetics / complexity?
Benjamin will introduce the four organisational dynamics (and their systems | cybernetics | complexity roots), their pathologies, diagnosis, and associated prescriptions:
• Segment – separating out into teams and specialisms
• Blend – coming together to work effectively as one unit
• Empower – each person to use their specific skills and talents
• Harmonise – bringing everyone together to focus on a common goal
He will then discuss how we might apply these to our own extended field, and invite discussion on whether and how we can use these concepts to positively influence more effective organisation.
Benjamin Taylor, is a dedicated amateur in the systems | cybernetics | complexity space. He is on the board of SCiO (systems and complexity in organisation), the systems practice professional body, teaches on the level 7 systems thinking practice apprenticeship, and at times has been the noodle in every soup in the field… he runs a network consultancy in the UK, RedQuadrant, and a social enterprise, the Public Service Transformation Academy. He regularly blogs and writes in the space – all links at antlerboy.com
Direct Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gv6HUcYs
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If you’re thinking, “Complexity and systems thinking, what are you talking about?”, our guest has some thoughts. In this wide-ranging talk, Dr. Michael C. Jackson will discuss the history of systems thinking, how systems thinking addresses complexity, some valuable ways of looking at systems translated into forms of practical action, and current examples of systems thinking in action in different sectors.
And if that’s not enough for you, we’ll open the floor for a conversation about the intersection of complexity and systems thinking. We are fortunate to be joined by Dr. Jackson, the leading figure in the development of critical systems thinking and practice. So get ready!
Bio
Michael is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull and MD of Systems Research Ltd. He graduated from Oxford University, gained an MA from Lancaster University and a PhD from Hull, and has worked in the civil service, in academia and as a consultant. Between 1999 and 2011, Mike was Dean of Hull University Business School, leading it to triple-crown accreditation. Mike has been President of the International Federation for Systems Research and the International Society for the Systems Sciences. In 2011 Mike was awarded an OBE for services to higher education and business.
In 2017 he received the Beale Medal of the UK Operational Research Society for ‘a sustained contribution over many years to the theory, practice, and philosophy of Operational Research’. In 2022, he received the Pioneer Award of the International Council on Systems Engineering for ‘the development of the foundations of systems engineering as author, educator and intellectual leader in systems thinking’. Mike is known as the leading figure in the development of ‘Critical Systems Thinking’ – a topic on which he has published ten books and over 150 articles. His latest book, Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner’s Guide was published by Wiley in July 2024. He is Co-Chair of the UK Government Office for Science/SCiO ‘Systems Thinking Working Group’.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM GMT
Dr. Michael C. Jackson – Systems Thinking & The Management of Complexity, Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 12:00 PM | Meetup
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The Soul Gained and Lost
wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_feedback
Description of the ‘flash of realisation’ of the breakthrough
Ronald Kline telling the same story
Oral history: interview
https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Harold_S._Black
Black’s 1934 article in The Bell System Technical Journal
Alternative link for video https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iFrxyJAtJ7U
Harold Black and the Invention of the Negative Feedback Amplifier
Harold Black and the Invention of the Negative Feedback Amplifier – AT&T Archives – YouTube
h/t Steve Hales
For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003.
His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”
This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.
When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.
A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.
John N. WarfieldSystems ScienceSoftwareBooksCatalogCollectionsAboutContactLog inSystems Science: “Thought About Thought”For more than three decades Dr. Warfield studied systems and complexity. The product of his intense effort was the creation of Systems Science, described in “A Proposal for Systems Science” published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science in December 2003. His research concluded that systems science is a hierarchy of sub-sciences, all of which incorporate the “Fundamental Triangle of All Science.”This Triangle consists of the human being, thought about thought, and language. Because most authors involve the three vertices of this triangle intuitively in their work, they make a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions related to them.When complexity is involved, these assumptions typically misdirect their work, which explains why, after a century of study, no systems science had been developed and tested until Warfield’s version appeared.A history of the evolution of “thought about thought” is found in Warfield’s An Introduction to Systems Science.
Systems Science
h/t Jason Hu
Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them.
September 25, 2024
When Johnny Wheeler was 4 years old, splashing in the bathtub in Youngstown, Ohio, he looked up at his mother and asked, “What happens when you get to the end of things?” The question would haunt him for the rest of his life. What happens when you get to the bottom of space? What happens when you get to the edge of time? It would lead him to suggest that space-time can’t be the true fabric of the universe. It would compel him, even in his final days, to search for some deeper reality beneath space-time and to wonder whether, somehow, that reality loops back to us.
continues in source…
John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality | Quanta Magazine
[A good intro]
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Birger Sevaldson [dipl NCAD PhD] is a professor at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Institute of Design. He is trained as an interior architect and furniture designer. He has been practising in various fields of design, including architecture and interior design, furniture design, industrial design and art-based projects. He has a PhD in creative design computing and has been researching systems thinking in design since 2006. He is central in the development of Systems Oriented Design, and his research focus is to develop systems oriented design thinking and practice for meeting the increased challenges of globalisation and the need for sustainability. He publishes on various themes, including systems oriented design, creativity, and research by design. Birger is a member of the council of the Design Research Society and is the founder of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposia and a co-founder of the Systemic Design Association. From systemsorienteddesign.net/birger-sevaldson/
About Systemic Design – YouTube
Action research scholar in neo-endogenous management and systems thinking
October 11, 2024
Reflections on Systems Mapping and Wicked Problems in Food SystemsMarija RoglicAction research scholar in neo-endogenous management and systems thinkingOctober 11, 2024
Reflections on Systems Mapping and Wicked Problems in Food Systems | LinkedIn
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