Stafford Beer offers a new approach to design organisations that can sustain in chaotic times.
The Viable System Model (VSM) and Team Syntegrity (TS) support more effective and agile organisations, by unlocking the emancipatory potential of its members.
We are a vibrant, global community that develops, and disseminates, his tools and ideas to contribute to build a better world.
Discuss with the academic, nonprofit and business community on our conference.
Webinars, Conferences, Special Interest Groups
Metaphorum organizes a monthly webinar, conferences and has interesting special interest groups. Get informed:
Recent Webinars
03-Apr-2024
Cybernetics and the Environmental Crisis
Professor Andrew Pickering
Foreshadowing the disasters of the Anthropocene, in the late 1960s Gregory Bateson developed a cybernetic analysis of the environmental crisis which was then starting to be recognised. He argued that its roots lay in dualist fantasies of control of nat …
06-Mar-2024
Language as an Enabling Constraint for Viability
Pille Bunnell
We are usually unaware that language imposes constraints on how we perceive, think and act, even as it is central to all that we do. What language enables is clearly apparent: all the cultures, technologies and designs we humans have created are ground …
31-Jan-2024
From Viable Organizations to Viable Ecologies
Michael Zargham
We will begin the discussions on the VSM and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAO)s, one of the topics agreed on at our last Metaphorum Conference in Manchester to develop ‘Special Interest Groups’ on topics of interest to our community. It will …