Add your events, feeds, calendars, source locations – and download individual or whole-site calendar entries https://transduction.systems/events (part of The Necessary Tangle, inspired by Nick Ananin’s systems thinking events map)
Here are some core readings on #SystemsThinking and #SystemicDesign that were suggested for the “Understanding Systems” course in the Master of Design program in Strategic Foresight and Innovation, at the School of Graduate Studies at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. American schools of thought: British schools of thought: Serial journals on Systemic Design: The winter […]
Local government can’t manage complexity one service, target, or programme at a time. This paper by Manuel Riemer and colleagues offers a useful account of what ‘systemic management’ might mean in practice. It describes cities as service ecosystems: nested within wider systems, made through relationships between many interdependent actors, socially governed, and continually emerging. From […]
“Norbert Wiener compiled a short list of selected readings on cybernetics in 1952, then an updated short bibliography of cybernetics in 1956” Credit: Sean Menion, @TheUnjournalinghttps://x.com/TheUnjournaling/status/2096060216882139638 Selected readings on Cybernetics Ashby, W. R. ‘The Behavioral Properties of Systems in Equilibrium.’ American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 59 (1946), 682–6. Brillouin, L. ‘Life, Thermodynamics, and Cybernetics.’ American […]
Source/credit Shared by Sean Manion, @TheUnjournaling:https://x.com/TheUnjournaling/status/2096067877493211220 His accompanying framing: “Cybernetics is interested in matter and energy only insofar as they are bearers of information.” In 1951, Barrett and Shepard of MIT did a rather comprehensive bibliography of cybernetics with hundreds of citations across half a dozen subcategories. Interesting framing. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CYBERNETICS by F. […]
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