2020-05-11

May 11 (the second Monday of the month) is the 79th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://making-changes.eventbrite.com.

Systems Thinking and Making Changes

How do Systems Changes become natural practice?  Stepping through a previously prepared set of slides, we'll have a slow discussion on history-making, commitment, argumentation and pattern language (or however much we can cover in about 90 minutes).  The agenda will draw from:

• A. Situated Learning + History-making

  • Legitimate Peripheral Participation + Practices (Lave, Wenger)

  • Skill Acquisition + Disclosing New Worlds (Dreyfus, Spinosa)

• B. Commitment + Language-Action Perspective

  • Conversations for Action (Flores)

  • Deliverables, procedures, capacities, relationships

• C. Argumentation + Pattern Language

  • IBIS (Rittel), Timeless Way of Building (Alexander)

  • Architectural Programming c.f. Designing

For May, we'll complete the four-lecture series as in February, March and April, based on the fourth lecture in the Systemic Design course, of the master's program in Strategic Foresight & Innovation at OCADU.  Our modified program has been to use the slides as a foundation, on which we 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: 

For those who want listen or read ahead, web video and digital audio are available as:

• How do Systems Changes become natural practice? | March 18, 2020 at http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/how-do-systems-changes-become-natural-practice/

Agenda

Post-meeting artifacts

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