Santa Fe Institute 13 Feb 2026 Giving Groups Control Over the Rules of the Game, in Simulation, in the Lab, and in the Wild Seth Frey, University of California, Davis Social systems change in unpredictable ways, particularly when power in them becomes power over them. This affects outcomes for collective behavior, collective intelligence, and collective […]
Learn how you might apply to join the Problematique Dialogue applying the Banathy Conversation Methodology at the “Re-introducing sLab” event. https://problematiquedialogue.org/ Problematique Dialogue, May 10 to 15, 2026, at OCAD UniversityLearn how you might apply to join the Problematique Dialogue applying the Banathy Conversation Methodology at the “Re-introducing sLab” event. Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 4:00pm to 6:00pmOCAD University Graduate Programs, 205 […]
As I just posted in that group: Systems Thinking network is weird and wild again! Blimey. I just went through and approved a massive backlog of posts – all of us administrators of this group (speaking for myself anyway) are a bit benevolently negligent. It feels a bit as though we are back to ‘the […]
Posted by Catriona Burke in the Systems Thinking Network group on LinkedIn Senior leaders today operate at the intersection of 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬: 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. These conditions are systemic, contested, emergent and deeply embedded. Optimisation approaches and linear, reductionist logic have extremely limited contributions to […]
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