Video recording of "AI Automation or IA Intelligence Augmentation" roundtable by #ISSIP + #CsrpInstitute sparked chats on negotiation skills, essential services, autonomous workgroups, accountabilities, asynchonous learning and AI.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/ai-automation-or-ia-intelligence-augmentation-issip/
Slides and video on “Thinking with Time: A brief introduction to Systems Changes Learning” by #ZaidKhan for Strategic Foresight and Innovation program at @ocad "Understanding Systems" course are an easier way into recent progress on #SystemsThinking foregrounding temporality.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/thinking-with-time-zaid-khan/
"Living systems science"!
> 17 ... design-engaged cross-disciplinary
... AI, living systems science, social sciences, material science, ... engineering, arts and culture, and economic management ...
DesignS: World Design Cities Shanghai Manifesto 2024
Web video of lecture on "Pacing Changes: Elevating the when+where in living systems", for #AnnaChekhman course on Designing Future Systems #YorkUniveristy School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, Toronto . Advancing #SystemsThinking with #SystemsChange research.
Through ecosystems ecology, I learned more about #LivingSystems from #TimothyFHAllen than anyone else in the #SystemsThinking community. His final work:
Curtin, Charles G., and Timothy F. H. Allen, eds. 2018. _Complex Ecology: Foundational Perspectives on Dynamic Approaches to Ecology and Conservation_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108235754 .
https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/timothy-f-h-allen-passed-away-on-may-01-2025/
Peer reviewed article on "Rethinking work, with the pandemic disruption: Metatheorizing with world hypotheses and systems changes” with #SusuNousala published in International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, after 2 years in revisions, #RyanArmstrong editor
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/rethinking-work-with-the-pandemic-disruption/
Audio recordings + 2 GenAI summaries of Evolving Styles for Learning Systems Thinking at #SystemsThinking Ontario @ocad with #StephenDavies @daviding@daviding.com , moderated by #ZaidKhan
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/evolving-styles-for-learning-systems-thinking/
Web video of #OCADU #SFI Understanding Systems week 2 lecture on Systems Approaches. Incorporates doing literature reviews aided by Gen AI. #PatternLanguage #OpenSource #RussellAckoff #EricTrist #SystemsThinking
Web recording of "Generative AI and Inquiring Systems: Ways of Patterning and Ways of Knowing" from #SystemsThinking Ontario. Leisurely dialogue and live challenge demos with ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Mistral LeChat, NotebookLM, Perplexity.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/gen-ai-inquiring-systems/
Proceedings published for "Reifying Socio-Technical and Socio-Ecological Perspectives for Systems Changes: From rearranging objects to repacing rhythms” in CEUR-WS for STPIS 2024. More details than the 15-minute presentation in August.
Web recording of the 125th meeting of #SystemsThinking Ontario: A retrospective, introspective, and prospective discussion about systems convening, in coordination with #RSDSymposium .
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-ontario-as-systems-convening-st-on-2024-10-21/
In which directions should #SystemsThinking advance? In 1985, Bela H. Banathy promoted engaging into systems inquiry in (i) systems theory, (ii) systems philosophy, and (iii) systems methodology, towards application and competence.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-theory-systems-philosophy-systems-methodology-banathy-1985/
From late September into October, researchers met for 5 intensive days for #CreativeSystemicResearchPlatformInstitute Banathy Conversation event in Lugano.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/csrp-institute-2024-banathy-conversation-lugano/
Web video of launch of book "Seeing: A Field Guide to the Patterns and Processes of Nature, Culture, and Consciousness" by #LynnRasmussen. Joined by #LauraCivitello of #MauiInstitute, making Systems Process Theory of #LenTroncale accessible.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/book-launch-seeing-a-field-guide_rasmussen-civitello/
Web video presentation complementing preprint of "Reifying Socio-Technical and Socio-Ecological Perspectives for Systems Changes: From rearranging objects to repacing rhythms" for International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’24)
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/reifying-socio-technical-and-socio-ecological-perspectives-for-systems-changes-stpis/
Invited paper to International Conference on Socio-Technical Perspectives in IS (STPIS’24) on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, https://stpis.org/program/ online to Sweden.
Preprint at https://coevolving.com/commons/2024-08-reifying-socio-technical-socio-ecological-stpis
Web video from U. Hull Centre for Systems Studies expert-led session on "Resequencing #SystemsThinking: Practising, Theorizing and Philosophizing as Systems Changes Learning", 4 parts, ~ 3 hours.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/resequencing-systems-thinking-u-hull/
Slides at https://coevolving.com/commons/2024-05-resequencing-systems-thinking need talk, animation.
Scholarly rankings of #SystemsThinkers may not line up with popularization. Counting h-index is different from number of citations.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/citation-rankings-for-some-systems-thinkers/
Serious about a postcolonial philosophy of Chinese science? Web video of "Yinyang and Daojia into #SystemsThinking through Changes" for #EQLab traces through history + the contextural-dyadic shift for #SystemsChange
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/yinyang-and-daojia-into-systems-thinking/
Running an open source LLM requires a lot of resources. The smallest model may run on a powerful laptop, but beyond that, you'll need a server. Besides the GPU (probably Nvidia), check out the disk space requirement for Llama 3.1
8b parameters, 4.7GB
70b parameters, 40GB
405b parameters, 231GB
Systems change researcher resident in Toronto, Canada. Past president, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Author of Open Innovation Learning book. Research fellow, CSRP Institute. Alumnus of IBM after 28 years.