**WHAT?**

Limicon 2024 is a month-long emergent online convention for the Liminal Web and anyone liminal-curious (Game B, metamodern, integral, tpot, etc).

Part we-space, part choose your own adventure, part field-nurturing experiment, Limicon 2024 is an open-space convention from March 6th – April 3rd, where participants can co-create the events and possibilities that they want to attend.

Sign up today for $25 for a month of events at Limicon2024 dot com.

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**WHY?**

We find ourselves in a liminal space between worlds, entrenched in a metacrisis, and embedded in cultural systems that are inadequate for regenerative future civilization.

We need to come together and co-navigate these uncertain times together.

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**WHO?**

This event is for those in the LIminal Web or those on the edges.

We welcome practitioners, artists, ritual builders, philosophers, community weavers, scientists, activists and fans of liminal, integral, metamodern, game b, tpot, bildung, and regen communities.

We embrace anyone drawn to the question: How do we become the humans we need to be, both individually and collectively, to be in service to hospicing the old systems and midwifing the new systems that are emerging?

See, sign up and join the emerging network map: https://kumu.io/Naryan/limicon-2024#networkmap

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**HOW?**

1. Come together – Sign up at Limicon2024 dot com
2. Surface possibilities – Add yourself to the Network Map and co-create the event schedule on the Limicon Miro https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNEa8tqg=/
3. Be present and Attune – Be open to connection and possibilities. Attune to what is already here.
4. Reflect and Evolve – Notice: What is happening? What are we learning? How are our connections evolving? What conversations want to emerge?

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**WHEN?**

As we collectively emerge from the winter, it is time to spring up together and jolt the field into liveliness.

Limicon runs 2 weeks before and after Spring Equinox (March 6th – April 3rd).

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**WHERE?**

Sign up today for $25 for a month of events at Limicon2024 dot com.

Also, join the Limicon Miro, a collaborative playground where you can co-create Limicon: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNEa8tqg=/

Limicon 2024 | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/limicon-2024/918624599920289/?mibextid=9l3rBW

February 16, 2024

Finding a System’s Purpose – Dr. Kathy Allen

[Lots of systems thinking and lessons]

https://pauljocelynconsultant.blogspot.com

[complexity – and nebulousness – in code)

Into the Tar Pit

Posted: May 19, 2020 | Author: Einar | F

ample codeIllusions of magic and smoke rings in codeAbout← Conway’s mobProper JSON and property bags →Into the Tar PitPosted: May 19, 2020 | Author: Einar | F

Into the Tar Pit | ample code

CFP | Luhmann Conference 2024 | Guiding distinctions. Observed with social systems theory – Luhmann Conference

[Another discovery of another little planetary system in the universe of systems |complexity|cybernetics – this is ‘the system’ primarily of matching the right balanced of general/early/specialist interventions in speech and language therapy, though it does have a role for chidlren and families too]

WHAT IS THE BALANCED SYSTEM®?

The Balanced System® is a whole system strategic approach to supporting children and people with a whole range of needs, that has primarily come out of work in the area of speech, language and communication. 

Marie Gascoigne has been developing the Balanced System® framework for over 15 years. It is used by a whole range of stakeholders, including commissioners from all disciplines and providers, particularly of therapy services. 

As the diagram shows, it is a see-saw model with a set of blocks that provide the base above which balanced support is delivered.

What is it : The Balanced System

https://www.thebalancedsystem.org/what-is-it

Complexity Podcast | Santa Fe Institute

https://www.santafe.edu/culture/podcasts

chuck @crowcialist on Twitter

Until I read this Hal Borland passage a few days ago I never realized/noticed that blossoming plants melt the snow, and it’s because that act generates a bunch of heat

(1) chuck 🏔 on X: “Until I read this Hal Borland passage a few days ago I never realized/noticed that blossoming plants melt the snow, and it’s because that act generates a bunch of heat https://t.co/zrZ7K4GfdX” / X

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermogenic_plant

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21205176/

This blog post is hopefully the beginning of the lecture notes for an upcoming course. Ultimately, I want to rectify the story of the development of …

The holistic tribes

Ernesto van Peborgh

https://ernesto-87727.medium.com/living-outside-of-the-system-the-rise-of-system-designers-d789f026f2ef

IVO VELITCHKOV

FEB 15, 2024

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This article is part of the series on Autonomy and Cohesion. It is the second part of the basic overview of the balance. If you haven’t read the previous part, I’d recommend doing so before reading further.

Cohesion Forces and ToolsIVO VELITCHKOVFEB 15, 202411ShareThis article is part of the series on Autonomy and Cohesion. It is the second part of the basic overview of the balance. If you haven’t read the previous part, I’d recommend doing so before reading further.

Cohesion Forces and Tools – by Ivo Velitchkov

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/cohesion-forces-and-tools

A new paper proposes an experimental setup that could test the classic Daisyworld model — a hypothesis of a self-regulating planetary ecosystem — in the lab via two synthetic bacterial strains. (image: Victor Maull, created with Image Designer)

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to the Gaia hypothesis, which was proposed by the scientists Lovelock and Margulis in the 1970s, our planet should have been getting progressively warmer for millions of years, while our oceans should have been progressively more acidic as well. The fact that this hasn’t happened suggests a planet-wide complex system that is self-regulating, with planetary life and geological processes working together to stabilize planetary geology and climate. Despite its importance, this idea could not be previously tested due to its planetary scale.

In a recent paper, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, SFI External Professor Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and collaborators propose an experimental system that will test, on a small scale, the dynamics that regulate planetary processes. Using synthetic biology, they will test two engineered micro-organisms in a self-contained system to see if they can achieve a stable equilibrium.

This proposed setup is inspired by recent research in fermentation, which has typically required finely-tuned outside control, to achieve stable, regulated conditions, including a stable pH level. “There’s been recent work in trying to see if you can engineer microorganisms for fermentation so that they can self-regulate,” Solé says. “That was the key inspiration.” This experimental setup, which Solé and several of his students developed during a visit to SFI, has the potential to answer long-standing questions in the field about planetary-wide regulatory systems.

In this experimental setup, one strain will detect if the environment is becoming too acidic, and counteract the increasing acidity, while the other strain will detect if the environment is becoming too basic, and act to counteract this decreasing acidity. “Because these strains act on the environment, and the environment affects them, this creates a closed causal loop,” Solé said. “The idea is to show that under very broad conditions, they will stabilize to a constant pH level, as predicted by the original theory.”

Read the paper “A synthetic microbial Daisyworld: planetary regulation in the test tube” in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface (February 7, 2024) by Victor Maull, Jordi Pla Mauri, Nuria Conde Pueyo, and Ricard Solé. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0585

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/life-as-a-planetary-regulator-an-experimental-test

Working on the Root System of Social Connections in a Community – Article (v1) by Cormac Russell et al. | Qeios

https://www.qeios.com/read/TD4ETJ

[h/t David Ing]

System and portfolio approaches toolkitThis is an evolving repository of practical portfolio-design toolkits that emerged from our own experience working with governments and other partners in over 45 countries. We hope that these might help as you get started on your journey of discovering new approaches and perspectives. We’re always keen to connect and learn how these resources may be landing in other organisations and context, so do get in touch to let us know about your experience.

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