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.