Web video + research article on Pacing Changes, Appreciating Approaches to Systems and Designing for #RSDSymposium .  Nine ways of #SystemsThinking from (more form+stability) to (more temporality+change).  Conversation Studio at #OCADU  for October 18.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pacing-changes-appreciating-approaches/
Web video of Tracing sLab’s Journey, and Reinvigoration with #GregVanAlystyne + #PeterScott #OCADU at #SystemsThinking Ontario crossover to #RSDSymposium.  Preamble to in-person workshop Friday, October 17 3:30-5:30pm 100 McCaul Street. Moderator #ZaidKhan  
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/tracing-slabs-journey-and-reinvigoration-for-the-systemic-design-community-st-on-x-rsd14-2025-09-10/
Web video applying Contextural Appreciative Learning on revising #SystemsThinking course with #StephenDavies for winter 2025 #OCADU_SFI program.  Hellenic HSSS conference proceedings article includes reflections + student surveys guiding next iteration. 
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/refreshing-a-curriculum/
Web video + peer-reviewed article for #WMSCI 2025 of Rethinking #SystemsThinking for #SystemsChanges Learning:   Philosophizing, Theorizing, and Methodizing reduces 6 years of research in 12 pages (+5 for references) and 23-minute video.  Warning, it's dense!
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/philosophizing-theorizing-methodizing/
Web video "Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads" by #ZaidKhan at #SysPrac25 #SCiO #OpenUniversity UK.  Processual approach for 21st century #SystemsThinking 
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pacing-changes-living-systems-sysprac25/
In the Fediverse, qoto.org looks to be fully federated, and I can read @yannlecun over here. I post rarely on threads.net , so I encourage friends to turn on the "Fediverse sharing" setting on their Threads accounts.
Other Mastodon instances may have taken a different stance on the Fedipact . https://fedipact.veganism.social
"Most of thought has nothing to do with language" says @yannlecun . LLMs are incapable of four essential characteristics of intelligent behavior. The next generation of AI has world models, predicting what might happen as consequences of action .
https://daviding.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/2025-05-15-the-future-of-open-ai-not-as-llms/
"It might not be about starting with why, maybe it's about starting with when" says #ZaidKhan on "Humbling Design by Sensing Rhythms" to audience of designers at #OCADU #TEDx. Building on research from master's in design, plus #SystemsThinking collaboration since 2019.
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/
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.