Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, artist, international lecturer, and author. She is the Founder and President of the International Bateson Institute and serves as President of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR). She is the founder and the creator of the concept “Warm Data” and the practices of the Warm Data Lab and People Need People Online. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”

She wrote, directed and produced the documentary, An Ecology of Mind – a Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson. This film offers audiences a lens through which to see the world that affects not only the way we see the world, but how we interact with it. Nora’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her internationally acclaimed book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles offered a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity. This was followed by Combining, a poetic, relational, and theoretical exploration of the ecology of communication and interdependency. Her latest book, Belly, is a cookbook for life and an exploration of nth-order living, inviting readers to notice how food, family, ecology, and culture are continuously shaping one another, and how we might yet learn to nourish one another differently. All three are published by Triarchy Press.