YOUNG WOMAN WITH A WHITE VEIL An urban project that does thorough analysis of a project brief and an existing situation, should be able to conceive, quantify and plan construc- tion. But even with a thoughtful master-plan, the time-scale is often out of phase with demog- raphy. The planning of 700.000m2 office space and 8.000 dwellings at Amsterdam Zuid-as in the beginning of 2000’, was based on a detailed prognoses. But ten years later many buildings need to be refitted from office to housing. In Modderfontein, a district of Johannesburg, USD 70M will be invested for 12Mm2 of construction between 2015 and 2030. Will their solution still bi good by the time they finish’ When you quantif an urban question today, you can be pretty su that the question will have changed by the tin are considered to be an expensive barrier for econom- ic development. Just when cities most need it, archi- tecture is on its knees, out of breath. FIGURE 2 ~ Corner of Michigan and Griswold, Detroit, circa 1920. Author unknown. FIGURE 3 ~ LX Factory main street, Lisbon, 2015. C. Weiler. resilience and stability, when a community of indi- viduals is diversified, when all are adapted to their habitat, and they constitute a tight network of business exchange and risk distribution’, then these new hybrid third places* could be a step in the right direction. TWO GIRLS WITH FRUIT AND SETAR Framework for Civic Intelligence Capabilities. Ignorance exists in many forms. One is the simple lack of knowledge, which is the only non-active form of igno- rance. The others require some type of active processing (including filtering). Not knowing is an unshakable aspect of life: we don’t know exactly what the future will Ve need to look at civic ignorance for several mportant reasons, in particular because it has not received the attention it deserves. People have the impression that “if the facts were known” people would accept them right away. This naive belief causes us to not notice a vast force that permeates our lives. Yes, ignorance of ignorance makes ignorance. It is probably useful to consider it as a variety of cognition, and acknowledge that the cognitive processes of civic ignorance are work- ing against our collective survival and our ability to work together for the common good. FIGURE1 ~ ‘The Structure of the Race to the Bottom. The reinforcing loop grows in MmGURE LT ~ ihe otructure of tie mace tO Mie DHOOM. ie remsrorcins 1OOp SLOWS Ih strength by using corruption in the form of highly appealing falsehood and favoritism. This increases the number of supporters of corrupt politicians, which increases their influence, which in turn increases their power to peddle still more falsehood and favoritism. Over time the loop can grow to tragically high levels. FIGURE 2~ Run 1. The simulation run begins with one deceiver and 99 neutralists. Over time the percentage of deceivers grows to 75% and stops. What keeps it from growing to 100% is the way deceived people can recover from their infection, after a deception infection lifetime of 20 years. FIGURE 3 ~ The basic structure of the Dueling Loops of the Political Powerplace. There are many variations. This structure is the fundamental cause behind the behavior of all political systems, both ancient and modern. It explains the ubiquity of the left right political spectrum. More importantly, it explains why corruption is what dominates politics, no matter how hard society tries to stamp it out. FIGURE 5 ~ The High Leverage Points of the Dueling Loops. The two high leverage points are underlined. benefit powerful special interests (notably large corporations and their owners, the rich) and will resist solving problems whose solution would benefit the common good. For the system to react correctly to deception, two steps must take place. The deception must be detected, which is handled by general ability to detect political deception times false memes equals detected false memes. Then those detected false memes must cause people to be repulsed enough by the corruption to either defect from the Supporters Due to Deception, which is what the supporter desertion due to repulsion variable does, or to move from neutralists to rationalists, which is handled by adding repulsion memes to true memes to calculate the rationalists infectivity rate. In addition to this, false memes minus detected false memes equals undetected false memes, which reduces the deception infectivity rate. FIGURE 6 ~ Duelling loop simulation introducing general ability to detect political deception. Runs 11 to 14. FIGURE 7 ~ The Broken Political System Problem and its side effects. A is the change resistance subproblem. Due to the Dueling Loops of the Political Powerplace, change resistance is presently so high that all DISMALL problems are insolvable. Due to its mind-boggling complexity and devilish diffi- culty of solution, the environmental sustainability prob- lem is the prototypical DISMALL problem. Therefore this IMAGE 1 ~ Cycles of Bundling and Unbundling’. in an era during which the market valuation of successful companies is defined for more than 80% by their intangible set of assets. In this respect, the champion of the first decade of the century was, with no doubts, Apple. Apple succeeded in making the most of its design capabilities and brand narra- tive of “thinking differently” by managing a relative- ly small industrial footprint, kept light mostly by sys- tematically leveraging on existing eastern OEMs° and actually building its overall branded “platform” (most- ly made of devices and developer ecosystems) on top of multiple, stratified, already available infrastructural ayers such as the world wide web, global logistic chains nd the productive capacity and shared knowledge of vhinese and Korean consumer electronics factories. IMAGE 4 ~ The evolution of human activities - Simon Wardley"’. IMAGE 3. ~ The P2P Infrastructure: Netarchical Capitalism’. Two axes and four future scenarios". IMAGE 5 ~ The P2P Infrastructure: Distributed Capitalism”. Another key dysfunction often pointed out with such platforms relates to their tendency to create walled gardens, used to lock in data and enclose collective intelligence: however this property could not be interpreted as dysfunction but instead as a “feature” and a strategic lever for a plat- form designer to choose. There are evident plus in keeping data under control if you’re a monopolistic platform as long as this doesn’t become harming to the platform’s reputation and business. In other situations, opening the data layer might be just a different strategic choice to win on markets. FATH ALI SHAH QAJAR, PAINTED BY MIHR “ALI J. G. Bennett (1897 - 1974). cherry-pick relevant aspects of his vast and complex systematics, without doing it even the minimal justice of a synopsis. Suffice it to say, for my purposes here, that Bennett takes inspi- ration from the significance of number as a way to ‘unzip’ different aspects of relatedness. One- ness explores the ‘wholeness’ of a phenomenon, its ‘is-ness’ or ‘present-ness.’ Tivo-ness investigates polarity and complementarities, subject and object duality, effort and resistance. Three-ness dis- plays the minimum condition for dynamic rela- tionships of change. The ‘math’ is really about the underlying logic of relationships within a grouping. Bennett, not one to leave a stone unturned, contin- 1es on to twelve-ness. For now, I’m presenting his aw of three” and skipping everything else. More npertinently, I eschew most of Bennett’s rather stract labelling in favour of more home-spun vocab- ry that keeps closer to our topic. I confess that ’'m tally keen to tiptoe past neighbouring pits of quick- d: numerology and the morass of the Trinity. Also the table will be references to others thinkers with a wn interest in ‘three.’ Bennett was not a complete lectual isolate of his times. Charles S. Pierce, George d, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles W. Morris all ed signification as tridimensional. However, serious yarisons with these thinkers must remain a conversa- for another day. Ordinary Automatic Pilot A+>M—>R The second configuration, A>M-—R with the active impulse (A) in the position of initiator, tells stories of ORDINARY AUTOMATIC PILOT which underpin the typical regularity and unfolding of everyday life. The rela- tionships don’t produce anything new beyond our normal shuffling around — predictable, easy, legible, iImost unnoticed. recasts helping farmers decide when to irrigate and vyhen to hold off. The founder, Alfred, is ‘A,’ the ctive impulse. Alfred, sensitive to his company’s need for additional managers, thoughtfully selects Roberto, a promising young scientist (Roberto is on the receiving end, so R), and grooms him through customized training in order to create new potential (M) for the company. Or, imagine an architect (A) revamping the physical layout of a firm conducting environmental studies (R), so that enhanced flow of information (M) between the specialists and the administrative support staff results. Another physical layout example. Architect Da Week suggests that most call centres and helpdesks < poorly designed and would benefit from a simp revamping into a horseshoe configuration whic would allow a supervisor easy scanning and allov each operator to lean either to the right or to the lef for immediate help from colleagues. This same advice could apply to, say, a Citizens Watch On Nuclear Waste. There is such a group where I live but they have no call-in facility and not much clout. New Mexico (my state) fathered the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, continues in ‘fine weapon- ry’ research, and is notorious for illegal contami- nation of soil and water. Imagine we set up a call centre in order to systematically collect citizen reports. We would have CREATION A>M-—R: archi- tect (A) designs space (R) for channelled commu- nication (M) with an emergent ORDINARY AUTO- MATIC PILOT A>M—R. Call operators (A) through the mediating power of the horseshoe layout (M) would automatically turn to neighbouring col- leagues (R) for help. and speed. The point is that any organization, what- ever its purpose, should think through how they want to ‘format’ experience; where should options be limit- ed and where should they be open-ended. Intensification R-A—~M The receptive impulse (R) now initiates. With INTENSIFICATION R->A>M, we just need to think of tales of self-development and their underlying dynamic to grasp what is at stake. Roberto, our young manager at Farmer’ Rain, eager to consoli- date his skill base, is open to suggestions. His open- ness is what predominantly structures the event and casts him as the initiating receptive (R) ‘impulse.’ He attaches himself to Alfred, the more experienced manager whom he admires. Under Alfred’s tutelage (A) Roberto sets himself the learning challenge of ren- fering satellite imagery more legible to the layperson. This permits him to improve the company’s relation- hip with farmers and garner support from the general ublic. (M). Such relationships of receptivity—young cruit/experienced manager, patient/doctor, child/par- it, or client/psychiatrist — summon other domain-spe- fic units to deal with the risks and vulnerabilities, i.e., hical code of conduct protocols. A meaty real-life cample of this dynamic can be found by reading about aniel Bassill who has led volunteer-based tutor/men- yr programs in Chicago for 40 years’. [magine the Spanda contributor (A) in her universi- ty office who, through a daily routine (M) turns on her computer and can, almost unthinkingly, e- mail in her submission (R) — all while keeping her conscious attention focused on the more difficult questions of the day. Drawing from changepeople.org. Gravity Applies M-A>R Release into New Freedoms M> RA AUTOMATIC PILOT A>M-—>R also provides a conserving current [(A) must ‘go through’ (M)], but here (M) pro- tects the operating system from ad hoc ‘anything goes’ responses. It sustains processes, and propels events so that tomorrow will look very much like today. The last plot in the series, RELEASE INTO NEW FREEDOMS MRA, involves the mediating impulse (M) as ini- tiator, working on the opening of the receptive impulse, so as to reveal new possibilities. We have here the dynamic referred to by Peter Block when he remarked, “Once a possibility has surfaced, you don’t have to work on it — it starts to work on you.” Triads of Change and Stability can combine for Adaptive Systems. Drawing by author. table elements (principles/values and models), (b) he necessarily more discontinuous components (rules and behaviours), and (c) the feedback and interplay between them. The managerial art, when we combine the insights of Sherman and Bennett, resides in deftly balancing the three sys- temic ‘change’ triads and the three processual dimensions of a system dedicated to keeping itself what it is. Health of any complex system resides in the balance and cooperative interac- tion of all six configurations. This is implicit since there is no mention of Bennett in spite of the two-thirds failure rate — of the formal design of complex projects of which we are a part. It is syntropy based on collec- tive, subconscious purpose that fills in the cracks left by the in-folding entropic spiral to control. of the values that support (+) the purpose and those that oppose or constrain (-) its pursuit. The arrows trace the edges of these two circles as the wave of pos- itive (entropic) and negative flows of feed-forward and feedback energy (syntropic). The greater the value differences at play in this cycle the greater are the emo- ions created. FATH ALI SHAH QAJAR, PAINTED BY MIHR ALI FIGURE 1 ~ Bruno Postle, Homemaker computer-generated domestic building’. FIGURE 2 ~ Creative style spectrum. The spectrum of creative styles is usually displayed as a scale from Adaptive to Innovative in a normal distribu- tion, i.e. that around two-thirds of the population lies around the middle of the scale. The scale gives a KAI score of 32 as the extreme of Adaptivity, and one of 160 as the extreme of Innovative style, with a mean of around 96. FIGURE 4 ~ Organizational climate biased towards adaptivity. In this organization there is probably enough of a spread of different creative styles to support efh- cient, economic pursuit of the organization’s aims. A need for greater consolidation will find sufficient more adaptive people to support it; in a crisis, if evolution of the existing organization is not sufh- cient and out-of-the-box solutions are required, enough more innovative people will be on hand to devise new structures. In a well-enough resourced organization, this mix of different styles can be the ntentional result of hiring policy. As an eminent ndustrialist once told me, ‘I appoint a particular kind f person to build and open a factory, but it takes a ery different style to manage it well once it is running’. FIGURE 3 ~ Organizational climate balanced between adaption and innovation. FIGURE 5 ~ Organizational climate biased towards innovation. It may be worth noting, however, that a problem- solving climate leaning towards adaptivity is probably common in publishers who need to be very adaptive to produce and sell books successfully, but who depend for innovation on freelance authors. FIGURE 6 ~ FlightRadar24.com. Dionysus, vase ca. 430 BC, red-figure. Michelle Holliday is a facilitator, consultant, speaker, researche and writer. Her work centers around “thrivability” — a set of per spectives, intentions and practices based on a view of organiza- tions as living systems. To this end, she brings people together and helps them discover ways they can feel more alive, connect more meaningfully with each other, and serve life more powerfully through their work. Michelle also writes regularly, including a forthcoming book, The Age of Thrivability. Her research is summarized ir in a slideshow called Humanity 40, as well as in a A a , ae Ly Scan ieee i a LIVING SYSTEMS THEORY ATIYN TrID nnpaAaAnrnronr “rin ennpo ADNDTATATS. SL'iTrTa Diverse types of human cells. Photo courtesy of: <http://bit.ly/1H9LEWK>. Photo credit: Ben Wolfe. Where the rational mind seeks ways to nurture Divergent Parts, the mythic imagination invites us to explore the parallel pattern of Homecom- ing, in which we ask: where is home and how do I find my way there? To come home to our- selves is to find our own personal myth and to rediscover how our enchantment with nature, art and community connects us with the whole of life. Most of our leadership metaphors are focused on growing up and upward mobility and the lad- Jer of success. What if we balanced this upward rganic motion with also growing down? To grow own is to have an embodied experience of place id to become rooted in and native to the ground - find ourselves on. Photo courtesy of City Repair Project, Portland, Oregon. While the rational mind explores ways to create Con vergent Wholeness from Divergent Parts - enablin; new capabilities to emerge and creating somethings new together — the mythic imagination embraces the parallel pattern of Regenerativity. Regeneration hap- pens when we create beauty through seeing all that we do as a form of craft and embracing craftsman- ship as the expression of place through the hands and the heart as well as the head. It happens when our career becomes a calling and vocation and we see ourselves as the instrument for the change we want to see in the world. With Regenerativity, we find trust in the conscious evolution of life, including the sense that we can approach life’s challenges with grace and ease and an apprecia- tion for life’s natural unfolding. Photo credit: Phile Beauchemin. KEMANCHE PALYER is no longer considered a legitimate activity; it implies cultural hegemony. When we transfer a technology to others, even within our same culture, we impose our values and our beliefs no less than our artefacts of production. )r by repurposing used plastic soft drink bottles to cap- ure and channel light into dark housing spaces one can nnovate a Alternative form of Low Technology for sky- lighting. Whatever the combination, the systemic impact of the innovation must be considered. The development and use of technologies that serve to obtain immediate objectives without consideration of whether or not they connect us to life is an expression of a non-systemic consciousness and the lack of well developed relational intelligence’. If we are concerned about the dehumanization of work and the malevo- lent pressures of efficiency and profit maximization TABALES 1 and 2 show various formulations of technology which can be combined. For exam- ple, one could develop an Appropriate form of Soft Technology through an innovation in collec- tive decision making for a specific local self-gover- nance system by drawing on and incorporating tra- ditional approaches to collective self-determination TABLE 3 ~ Evolving Orientations of Hard and Soft Technologies. in the wake of industrialization and technological advance, we need only realize that these are the very values with which we imbue our technological sys- tems. Rather than charge technology with irresponsi- ble conduct, we need consider why it is that we have not met the challenge of matching technological intel- ligence with a commensurate advancement in relational intelligence and systemic consciousness. As Aurelio Pec- cei noted in 1977, the development of such wisdom is essential in giving direction to technological develop- ments for the benefit of humankind, and indeed, on« might add, for re-stabilizing the well-being of Earth her self given the impact of human presence. TABLE 3 suggest an emerging trend in systemic innovations that draw o1 Hard and Soft Technologies, respectively. ‘The central challenge to systemic change agents of today and for tomorrow is the development and nurturing of relational intelligence applied to systemic innovation. The specific challenge is to consciously create Technologies of Orga- nizational Communion (TOC) to contextualize and humanize the Technologies of Informa- tion and Communication (TIC) through which we operate so much of our contemporary social, economic and political networks. To emerge a glocal eco-civilization® we need both the connective and distributive power of TIC and the humanizing and relational power of TOC, combined. In this way, each TIC we pro- duce will embody an evolutionary, planetary, and thrivability ethic that affirms life — and the quality of living it. In short, the challenge of developing | TOC for each TIC that is innovated is a challenge t FIGURE 1 ~ Systemic Interdependencies. According to standard usage, an innovation is the concretization of a practical idea that augments human capability for action with societal impact, existing as an intermediate phase between the con- ceptual invention of an idea and its marketable dif fusion in society. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, advances in science and technology have created unprecedented opportunities for human development and well-being, and yet such advances have brought with them certain “side-effects”” that 10w threaten the stability of societies and ecosystems 1e world over. As illustrated in FIGURE 1, population ‘owth, social inequities, hunger, armed conflicts, iter shortages, pollution, climate change — these are t a few of the issues, each of which is related to every other, and together form a complex challenge for soci- etal development”. The finitude of resources on our planet calls for new forms of production, distribution, and consumption... and for new ways of researching, developing, and innovating social and technological change in order to answer the call. FIGURE 2 ~ Competencies of Evolutionary Leadership FEMALE TUMBLER The solution expressed in a pattern should be general enough to be applied in very different systems, but still specific enough to give constructive guidance. An impor- tant part in each pattern is to describe the context, i.e. the range of situations in which the problems and solutions addressed in a pattern apply. The patterns, because of their explicitness, allow discussion, debate, and gradual improvement of the material. In A Pattern Language, Alexander and colleagues listed 253 “patterns” varying in their level of scale and including suggestions ranging from how cities and towns should be structured to where windows should be placed in a room. Taken together this collection of patterns form a com- mon language that help to make knowledge explicit and shareable within a field of expertise. A pattern language gives each person who uses it the power to create an infinite variety of new and unique structures, just as ordinary language gives him/her the power to create an infinite variety of sentences. A person with a pattern language can design any part of the environment and does not need to be an expert because the expertise lies in the language. Extract from Ursus Wehrli: The Art of Clean Up: Life Made Neat and Tidy”. FIGURE 1 ~ The Ancient Indian Fable of the Blind Men and the Elephant’. Edgar Morin describes this multiplicity of path- ways in La Voie (the Way): “On each continent and in each nation one can find creative bubbling, a multitude of political initiatives in the direction of economic, social, political, cognitive, educational, ethical or existential regeneration. But everything that must be connected is yet dispersed, compart- mented, separated. These initiatives are not aware of each other, no institution enumerates them, and no one is familiar with them. They are nonetheless the livestock for the future. It is now a matter of rec- ognizing, aggregating, enlisting them in order to open up transformational paths. These multiple paths, jointly developing, will intermesh to form a new Path which will decompose into the paths each of us will follow and which will guide us toward th still invisible and inconceivable metamorphosis. “° FIGURE 2 ~ Donella Meadow’s leverage points for systemic change. agents (human and non-human): behaviours that are shaped by the rules, structures and automated systems we humans put in place, which arise from the paradigms we hold. Donella Meadows sum- marises this situation in her characterisation of Points of Intervention in a System (see figure below)'’. Often these dynamics manifest at levels other than those at which they originate: a common property of complex adaptive systems. They may over time gather momen- tum and become self-reinforcing, and in turn become structural features that shape the available choices and hence behaviour of agents in the system. This creates sit- uations of lock-in to highly undesirable states - such as the linked technological, institutional and political bar- riers to decarbonisation of industrialised economies” — and likelihoods that these propagate as path dependen- cies built in to new or rapidly changing systems’. Lack- ing simple resolution or even problem definition, most complex sustainability issues take the form of ‘wicked problems’, intractable to causal analysis and impervious to concrete remedies". PLAST addresses this by bringing together scien- tists from many different fields of systems research to explore, discover and capture com- mon patterns of systemic behaviour. A pattern in a system is here broadly referred to as ‘a com- mon feature, system behaviour, structure or func- tion [...] that can be observed across multiple contexts” and can be used for revealing informa- tion on processes'*. Research areas such as digital studies, cognitive technologies, social and cultura studies, game theory, complexity theory and resilienc FIGURE 3 ~ Coupling of creative, psychic, and social systems”. Sonnections beyond individual minds, such as those enabled by the Internet and the hyperlink, have expo- nentially increased the potential for discovery of ideas and knowledge. In a similar way, by facilitating cre- ation and use of design patterns that encapsulate tacit knowledge in interoperable formats, supported by insights on systemic consequences, PLAST, focusing on the ergonomics of the technical tools that will accompany the practitioners and their practice, will FIGURE 4 ~ The overview of experience mining, experience analyses, and experience visualisation with patterns”. When change agents analyse situations and co-create solutions in real world contexts, each stage of the co- modelling process involves questioning and draws on multiple modes of perception and exploration. During the research phase, we will document and model collab- orative processes of pattern interpretation (decoding of perceived patterns) and design (encoding of pattern rep- resentation). We will analyse and evaluate several facilita- tion methodologies and human action pattern lan- guages”. On this basis, we will create prototype workshop formats, to be piloted during the project and employed thereafter. Workshops will both facilitate the research process and allow documentation of the various processes through which groups explore possibilities and co-create new ideas. This will inform the design of a semantic struc- ture and an orientation engine in the platform’s user interface that will include query, visualization and naviga- tion features that enable exploration and discovery. FIGURE 5 ~ The Johari Window”. tion among disciplines. The piast platform will also support the hermeneutic process of pattern formulation and evaluation, to assess the maturity of a pattern and lead to ‘meta-stabilisation’ of collective points of view forming one or more cohesive bodies of theo- retical data, with tools and practices enabling ‘trace- ability’ of interpretations. The hermeneutic pattern formulation and evaluation tool will integrate adap- tations of Fraunhofer’s pattern evolution system, such as implemented in the BRIDGE FP7 project”, and IRIs ‘categorisation’ process, such as implemented in the Polemic Tweet tool to reveal controversies around events on Twitter”. The hermeneutic pattern formula- tion and evaluation tool should enable a change agent yr community to design patterns and pattern languages rom their own practice and to put them up for discus- ion, allowing comparison with similarly designed pat- ns, and with patterns and pattern languages in other mains of practice. The tool will allow tracking of the tern inquiry and interpretation discussions in real time ing supporting visualization of controversies and dis- issions that can be traced in a platform similar to ikipedia’s (versioning and history of exchanges)”. is essential to design the platform to reflect users’ the prototyping, sharing, reproduction, maintenance and on-going development of effective practice across domains, supporting the design, learning and dissemi- nation goals of change agents within communities of practice on the ground.
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