David Ing @daviding@qoto.org

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.

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/stpis-2024-proceedings-reifying-socio-technical-and-socio-ecological-perspectives-for-systems-changes/

From the 1982 publication of _Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems_, W. Richard Scott in 2004 reflected back on the history of organizational sociology.

> Before open system ideas, organizational scholars had concentrated on actors (workers, work groups, managers) and processes (motivation, cohesion, control) within organizations. Scant attention was accorded to the environment within which the organization operated.

Scott, W. Richard. "Reflections on a half-century of organizational sociology." Annu. Rev. Sociol. 30, no. 1 (2004): 1-21 at https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110644

For those interested in detailed distinctions between systems approach, systems thinking, General Systems Theory, system science, etc, Aleksandra A. Nikiforova (Lomonosov Moscow State University) started an entry in the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization in 2022 that has been revised to 2024.
https://www.isko.org/cyclo/systems .

The International Society for Knowledge Organization is a “scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization, bringing together professionals from different disciplines such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science, as well as special domains such as health informatics".

The Future of Life Institute Safety Index is criticized by Mark Daley as too narrow, with an implicit bias disfavoring open sourcing.

> The “Future of Life Institute” released their FLI Safety Index this week. [....]

> By celebrating only those models that impose rigid controls on allowable thought and scorning those that grant the user genuine choice, the FLI Safety Index risks becoming equally a barometer of cultural authoritarianism.

“The future of human thought”, Mark Daley, Dec.14, 2024 at https://noeticengines.substack.com/p/the-future-of-human-thought

In understanding the precursors to the Gunderson and Holling 2001 _Panarchy_ book, it's good to keep in mind that when ecologists refer to "Adaptive Management", the clearer longer label is "Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management".

Holling, C.S. (1979). Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management -- Current Progress and Prospects for the Approach: Summary Report of the First Policy Seminar, 18-21 June 1979. IIASA Collaborative Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: CP-79-009 at https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/1193/

In describing "go energy" and "stop energy", @pahlkadot approaches yang qi and yin qi, in a dyadic processual approach.

> This is a useful nuance as I develop a framework for building state capacity. One of my admittedly obvious and oversimplified tenets is that systems have both “go energy” and “stop energy,” much as a car has a gas pedal and a brake. You wouldn’t drive a car without a brake, but you also wouldn’t drive a car in which the brake was pressed all the time, even when you were trying to accelerate.

https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-trump-appointment-that-could

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/

#SystemsThinking

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/