* From bat suit crazy nipples to the number one best-selling management science book.
* From online council meetings to enactivism
* From the meta-rational workplace to the university set up by Jewish people interned on the Isle of Man
* From the sad implications of #digital to the even sadder old story of poor young boys crying for their mothers as they face the prospect of dying – or killing – for rich old men.
For many years, a favourite exercise of our is what we call ‘the Obolensky game’ – because we learned it from Nick Obolensky and his book ‘Complex Adaptive #Leadership‘. It is in fact, I think, a classic of the #systemsthinking | #complexity | #cybernetics genre – various called ‘the triangle game’ and something like ‘assassins and shields’ – you can google Nick or me … Continue reading When is #selforganization… not? And does it matter? →
very exciting that this is now out! The Grammar of Systems: From Order to Chaos & Back: Amazon.co.uk: Hoverstadt, Patrick: 9798414307754: Books You can also see Patrick talking about this at the SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – March 2022 Monday 21 March, 18:30UK time https://systemspractice.org/events/scio-uk-virtual-open-meeting-march-2022 (along with Roger Duck and Jane Searles talking about […]
An analysis of key trends in adult social care confirms wider reform of the sector remains an urgent priority, writes a senior fellow at The King’s Fund.
So sad to see this. Many of us had such great hopes for direct payments. Take-up now just 26.6%, lower than in 2015-16. From excellent
@TheKingsFund
Social Care 360 update.
This free webinar is aimed at commissioners from local public authorities, as well as leaders of social enterprises and other public benefit organisations, who want to explore new and more impactful ways of organising public services.
Is there a better way to deliver public services? Chris Naylor, the former Chief Executive of Barking and Dagenham Council assesses the need for public service reform, meeting innovators and talking to those who design and use public services. This BBC Radio 4 programme asks, is it time for a radical rethink?
Online workshop with Dr Christine Welch – 16th March at 4.00 pm Soft Systems Methodology – what it is and is not UKSS Online workshop – March 16th Online workshop with Dr Christine Welch – 16th March at 4.00 pmSoft Systems Methodology – what it is and is not Please book a free place here. See […]
What happens when we bring together two great thinkers of Systems Theory and Deep Ecology in emergent conversation?Join us on Saturday, March 5at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT for Systems View of Life. Fritjof Capra, author of many books including The Systems View of Life and Jeremy Lent, author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of […]
Constructivism + Embodied Cognition = Enactivism: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Conceptual Change (PDF) Constructivism + Embodied Cognition = Enactivism: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Conceptual Change | Doug Holton – Academia.edu Constructivism + Embodied Cognition = Enactivism: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Conceptual Change Doug Holton Published 2010 The objective of this paper is to […]
DISTRIBUTED VS CENTRALIZED: 1) not a binary distinction, 2) both architectures evolve in nature thru bottom up processes 3) both have robustness + evolvability issues. Be empirical not ideological.
*This article was originally published as Chapter 10 in Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds (June, 2021). It is duplicated here to make this pertinent theme more accessible and encourage wider…
Donald Schon Lecture Donald Schon Lecture – YouTube Video recording of Donald Schön lecture (1989) Discovered by João Ferreira on the PHD-DESIGN discussion list (PHD-DESIGN@jiscmail.ac.uk) Dear all, I came across a video recording of a lecture by Donald Schön. It was published by the Iowa State University Library on YouTube. There isn’t much information about it, […]
American pundits say Putin is undermining the international order. But the ability of great powers to ignore the rules is a lamentable part of the system.
At a certain point, the practice clicks. The yidam embodies you. You’re effortlessly there. At that point it’s a bit like you are played by the yidam - somewhat akin to how Rowan Atkinson describes being played by the part in this passage from
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‘s notes.
From a pantomime aesthetic to menacing black rubber and bulging sinews, the batsuit sees a new iteration with the release of the latest movie, The Batman.
