July 31, 2023

Other Intellectual Approaches and commentary as well as further links

Isaacs, William. ‘DIALOGUE: THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE THINKING’. The Systems Thinker 4, no. 3 (1993). Laszlo, Alexander. ‘Conversations Communities in Context: A Retrospective Prospective’. Constructivist Foundations 11 (1 November 2015): 54–56. Schein, Edgar H. ‘The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication’. The […]
July 31, 2023

Conversation Theory: Pask and Second-Order Cybernetics

Pask, Gordon. Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemology. Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier, 1976. Pangaro, Paul. ‘Why Do We Want To Live In Cybernetics?’ Cybernetics and Human Knowing 23, no. 2 (2016): 9–21. Glanville, Ranulph. ‘SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS’. In Encyclopedia of Life […]
July 31, 2023

The Banathy Conversation Methodology and the IFSR Conversations

Edson, Mary. ‘What Is the IFSR Conversation?’ Official Newsletter of the International Federation for Systems Research, 2015. When asked about the value the IFSR brings to the Systems Community, the answer can sound heavy. After all, the IFSR serves as the umbrella […]
April 11, 2021

Cybernetics & Systems Science (2.729 members)

Systems Theory or Systems Science argues that however complex or diverse the world that we experience, we will always find different types of organization in it, and such organization can be described by concepts and principles which are independent from the specific […]
April 11, 2021

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October 5, 2019

Association Française de Science des Systèmes

Who are we? Systems thinking and transdisciplinarity are necessary to understand the multiple interactions that exist within complex systems, such as business, economics, legal systems, states… which are technical, organizational, cognitive and social. This is why the systemic approach of such systems […]