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/
On the 2nd day of #ReFi Barcelona we have @marycamacho presenting the history and status of Holochain.org and Holo.host.
#ReFiBCN #livingsystems
SYSTEMS. New book focused on one mechanism: feedback and living systems. Today’s leisure read.
“At times Warm Data is also described more simply as: Information that is alive."
Learn to be a warm data host with Nora Bateson!
In person Singapore 19th–24th February 2024
Online 15th April – 6th May 2024
https://warmdatalab.net/warm-data-host-training-information
Rereading the introduction to the 1969 _Systems Thinking: Selected Readings_ Penguin paperbook surfaces some choices by the editor #FredEEmery that I hadn't previously appreciated.
Who else is passionate about #regeneration ?
Great new short (5mins) film out about it:
#climate #rewilding #nature #collaboration #coevolution #culture #stewarding #bioregioning #Prosocial #Regenesis #RegenerativePractitioner #indigenouswisdom #livingsystems
Reading this recent (2022) article from Fritjof Capra:
The organization of the living:
Maturana’s key insights
included in the latest Constructivist Foundations volume 18(1): 005–011
https://constructivist.info/18/1/005
and I am continually bewildered by the fact that no one in the #Constructivist field figured out yet that #Autopoiesis, although necessary, is not the sufficient condition for #Life.
All #LivingSystems are in fact #DynamicalSystems with memory made of #Material, #Energy, and #Information structures participating continually in both auto- and allopoietic processes.
In fact, the recursive, #Autopoietic processes of learning and growth depend only on (are “structurally coupled” with) the linear #Allopoietic work processes dealing with all the things (resources, waste) in the system’s environment and producing the externally observable #behavior of the living (dynamical) system.
BIOPHYSICS + SYSTEMS. New book boils down the bio-physics of life down to four principles: (a.) self-assembly, or building instructions encoded in components themselves; (b.) regulatory circuits, or dynamics that constrain; (c.) predictable randomness, or sources of variation to put to the test given evolutionary dynamics; (d.) scaling, or size and shape dictate physical forms given forces at work.
You can #observe complex systems.
You can #irritate complex systems.
You can #flip complex systems (by intervening on the system design).
Then you can observe again.
#betacodex #systemsthinking #complexity #orgdev #OrganizationalDevelopment #leadership #newwork #change #ChangeManagement #systemsthinking #futureofleadership #complexitools #livingsystems #organizeforcomplexity #red42 #openspacebeta #VFOT #agile #agility #lean #teal
The cheapest, most efficient & most effective #carboncapture is to utilise #nature
Everything else is literally #Greenwashing
Wasting valuable resources & money on expensive vanity projects on behalf of the #fossilfuel industry should not be an option.
We need mass restoration of these systems instead, to form a stable, resilient ecosystem that we can hand over to our kids with pride.
#peatmoor #seagrass #forest #grassland #soil #LivingSystems #biodiversity
https://lnkd.in/dMEBAzyy
I’ve been pondering the Constructal Law alongside my reading of Christopher Alexander’s _The Nature of Order_. That there doesn’t seem to be much written on the overlap of these two fields seems like a massive gap to me.
#ConstructalLaw #Thermodynamics #Architecture #LivingSystems
Friday December 20 @ 12:34UTC
Sofia Bustamante works with conflict resolution. She has a black belt in Aikido and bases her many of her workshop exercises & techniques on insights she has gained from this.
Her current work involves developing a systematic Conflict Resolution Pattern Language. In this episode we talk about the relationships between this, traditional fears of naming, and General Semantics.
#culturaldemocracy #conflict #livingsystems #podcast #peacework
Organismic biology and systems thinking ⤵
#LivingSystems #SystemsThinking #OrganismicBiology #PaulWeiss
https://xan.writeas.com/organismic-biology-and-systems-thinking
System
#OrganismicBiology #LivingSystems #SocialSystems #SystemsThinking
The biochemist Lawrence Henderson was influential through his early use of the term "system" to denote both living organisms and social systems...
