2020-04-20

April 20 (the third Monday of the month, following Easter) is the 78th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://systems-thinking-practical-wisdom.eventbrite.com.

Systems Thinking and Practical Wisdom

Whom, when and where do Systems Changes situate?  We won't necessary cover the whole agenda, but we have a complete set of slides that include:

• [preamble] Episteme, Techne, Phronesis (reordered)

  • Intellectual Pursuits (Rethinking Systems Thinking)

  • Systems changes as situated c.f. ideal-seeking

• A. Value(s), Judgment, Soft Systems Thinking

  • Appreciative Systems (Vickers, Checkland)

  • Policy, impacts and consequences of systems changes

• B. Service Systems (c.f. Production Systems)

  • Science of Service Systems (Spohrer, Kijima)

  • Material-products c.f. information-services as systems changes

• C. Socio-Technical Systems Perspective

  • Tavistock Institute + Legacy (Trist, Emery, Ramirez)

  • Coproduction and design principles guiding systems changes

For April, we'll continue with the online, modified program, following the agenda for a lecture in the Systemic Design course, of the master's program in Strategic Foresight & Innovation at OCADU.  As in the March session, we still step through the slides slowly, and nurture a conversation that encourages participants to develop a personal appreciation through collective sensemaking.

Venue:

• We will meet online.  Please register on Eventbrite, and the web link will be sent to you.

Suggested pre-reading: 

Keeners may want to listen to the video or digital audio of the lecture at:

• Whom, when + where do Systems Changes situate? | February 22, 2020 at http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/whom-when-where-do-systems-changes-situate/

Agenda

Post-meeting artifacts

Bloggers are encouraged to write about their learning and experiences at the meeting. Links will be added to this page.