Parallel session @ISSSMeeting Prospectus for a New Systems Synthesis #isss2016USA, 60th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences and 1st Policy Congress of ISSS, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Chair: David Rousseau, Centre for Systems Philosophy
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John Kineman introducing Peter Jones and Patricia Kambitsch
[Peter Jones]
- Practice of sketching associated with Related Systems Thinking and Design
- http://systemic-design.net/
- At OCADU, Systemic Design course
- AHO in Oslo is one of the few that are similar
Practice of visual literacy
- Sketchnote (on iPad or single sheet of paper) is different from live sketching (on large poster)
[Patricia Kambitsch]
- Anyone can do this, can train
- Follow the impulse, when you’re talking to someone on the phone
- Pictures can be a route into a different dialogue
- Sketches are internal reflections by sketchers, not necessarily what the speaker said
[Peter Tuddenham, VP of Systems Education]
Each host of the workshop should have a 10-minute review
[Dino Karabeg, University of Oslo]
Two educational projects on curating creative
Systemic innovation, technological innovation
- With Knowledge Federation and systems scientists
Knowledge Federation with media workers
Prototype, evolved with inputs of knowledge
Projects have different goals:
- Leadership and systemic innovation program (Alexander Laszlo is developing in Buenos Aires), to create systemic innovation as a discipline; and impact institutions in Argentina (since some students are already leader)
- Collaborology: systemic prototype in education. Global Education Future Forum. Transformation design patterns. Weaving into an educational program, offered through U. of Dubrovnik.
Workshop here was almost an initiation ritual.
- Hands-on collaboration
- Knowledge Federation vision, from Doug Englebart: information technology can enable completely different ways of communicating (and then could be used for systemic change)
- Where can we do this?
- Where do we start?
- A collective intelligence, capable of understanding the world and handling it
Want to start in this community.
- We can’t do work without insight into systems.
- Systemic thinkers self-organize, started with Alexander Lazslo in 2013.
- First stage of lighthouse: how can we organize to be world-changing
- Second, how do we express them through communications designs
- Third, how do we replace this event with a larger community event?
[Ockie Bosch]
Will talk about progress over the past 2 years
- IFSR Conversation 2008 Fuschl
- IFSR Conversation 2010 Pernegg
- People who want to become systems scientists, and people who want to practice systems science
Introductory models:
- System
- Contextualization
- Interconnections
- Root case
- Feedback
- Paradox
- Change
Advanced models
- Identifying issues of concern
- …
What was to infilitrate system into universities
- Value adding to existing programs
- Put into faculty core, then disicpline core
Transdisciplinary master’s
- Core: systems thinking and systems dyanmics; systems and social responsbility; designing sustainable systems
- Cohesive list of courses clustered in fields
- Examples of partnerships
A new era MBA: a collecxtion of courses
- Tried to create an interconnected MBA system, for managers
- Transformational leadership course
All of the content so far deals with getting to integrated management, i.e. plan to implement systemic intervention which causes change.
[Louis Klein]
The Systemic Change Institute
- If there are systemic issues, there might be systemic solutions
- Complexity is a major buzz world
Project Management Institute, lean, six sigma
- For 6 years, have been dealing with these organizations, they’re like a guild
- If there is something like project management, there should be something like the Systemic Change Institute
For people in the corporate world, social complexity of change:
- Technical: focus, especially for engineers
- Political
- Cultural perspective
Courses:
- Change agent: team members (managers)
- Change master: team leaders (directors)
- Change entrepreneur: change leaders / navigators (VP+)
Handed over to the European University of Government
- Online course, checks
- Onsite skill training
Dual education: during the job
Public entrepreneurship
Systems research
Two projects, where we don’t rub in systems, but they are about change and governance
[Ray Ison]
People in program, think of a word that explains your experience
First academic job was in Australia, under Richard Bawden
- Since been in didactic modes
1970s studies of teaching now now disappeared with the rise of the Internet
Any academic worth their salt has to be an expert in student’s learning experience
- Should support each other, rather than competing
- Now pursuing a new membership category in IFSR for education providers
History of education of universities in cybernetics is institutional failure
- Almost all have failed
- Need to understand the failure, world may or may not become more conducive to learning
[Len Troncale]
No Powerpoint slides
Have workshops at this conference
Had assessment data, funding agencies want that
Created institute, 20 to 30 fellowships per year
- Grants for $250K
- Designed a Comparative Systems Analysis programs
- Refused, became a minor
1978, funded by Office of Education for $400K to design a national model for environmental education
- Were going to use isomorphies
- Went to Far West Labs for $1M
- Never published as a national model, because leader went over to Warfield ISM
Early 1990s, directory of 170 systems program across the world
- Most all have folded
- Reasons for folding: what works and what doesn’t
- Got $2.5M from NSF and CSU to design an integrated systems sciences model
- General education, were going to do online and in labs
- 25 obstacles that inhibit
- Did gamification for course materials, and tests imbedded in program
- Taught 300 students, lots of assessment data
Last quarter, taught in the master’s program in College of Engineering, taught in systems engineering
Working with INCOSE Systems Science Working Grup
Directory?
[Pavel Luksha, Moscow]
School of Management, leading Russian school based on systems thinking
- Gary K, as per Heinz von Foerster, Russell Ackoo
Work applied to find change agents in large Russian agents
Since 2008, worked with government
Wortked with almost all companies in sectors in Russia
Designers of smart grease, working in countries across Europe and Asia
Try to create pockets of experience
Request to create a course that could be a mainestation of the system of tomorrow
[Questions]
California Community College system. $17M grant for making education. Take the skills in learning and innovation in maker space. Could do as a GE in a lower course.
- [Troncale] Community colleges previously weren’t available
- Want to make sure the academic senate would be approved at the campus level
- [Ison] In Sweden, if what people had to learn about waste in cafeteria, would get a feeling
Program in Vietnam, game that people were playing.
- [Bosch] Ecopolicy game, to learn interconnectedness
- Has grown in Vietnam, not only schools and universities, but also to government officials
- Now taking from South Australia to other places in Australia
Dino Karabeg has blogged
#isss, #isss2016
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