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Towards innovative organizational solutions to address business and societal complexity in the Third Millennium
Metaphorum Conference
Woodend Creative Workspace, Scarborough
2nd & 3rd December 2010
We are glad to announce the next Metaphorum Conference to be held in December the 2nd and the 3rd in Scarborough entitled ‘Towards innovative organizational solutions to address business and societal complexity in the Third Millennium”.
In this Conference we want to continue the conversations we initiated at St Gallen, at the Cwarel Isaf Conference in 2009, about how we can contribute to the required societal transformation (The Great Transformation), using Stafford’s theoretical and practical legacy. In particular, we want to invite people who have been developing innovations in businesses, education and communities that are ‘cybernetically sound’ and constitute an example of alternative ways of dealing with major societal and business challenges in the XXIst Century. We’d expect speakers to present their projects as well as reflections on them, from a cybernetic/ complexity perspective.
During the Conference, we will launch the new Metaphorum web page and invite participants to contribute to it. It is now in a testing stage and we’d expect to publish (at least some of) the contributions from the Conference on the new site.
The nature of contributions from participants in the Conference this year varies from academic papers (it may be work in progress), outline of ongoing research projects, book reviews and research notes. There will be an informal and networking environment with parallel streams running all through the two days, starting and ending with plenary sessions.
Those interested in participating, please get in touch as soon as possible with Michelle Watts, to book their place: she will be the Conference organizer. In a few weeks she’ll distribute to those interested details about Conference venue, logistics to get there and accommodation.
The Conference will be co-sponsored by Metaphorum and Hull University Business School – there is no cost for food/ teas/ coffees-. There will be a GBP$25 fee to contribute to Metaphorum’s future conferences and network developments.
As the number of attendees is restricted, we’ll appreciate a quick answer from those interested.
Looking forward to see you in December.
Best regards
Angela Espinosa & Michelle Watts (conference steering committee)
Programme
Metaphorum Conference-Woodend Creative Workspace, Scarborough
2nd & 3rd December 2010
Thursday 2nd December 2010
12.00 Registration and Lunch
12.35 Welcome
12.45 Introduction from participants
13:45 David Beatty – ‘Preliminary explanation for Viable Crossover activity’
14.45 John Waters – ‘Management of Complexity in a Community Banking Partnership’
16.00 Colin Beveridge – ‘Complexity and Change in the Irrational Enterprise’
17.00 End of first day
Friday 3rd December 2010
9.00 Tea & Coffee
9.30 Pedro Pablo Cardosa- ‘Complexity approaches to self-organisation:
A case study from an Irish eco-village’
10.15 Leonid Ototsky (Skype) – ‘The VSM as a foundation for social systems in the XXI Century’
11.00 Refreshments
11.15 Kathryn Knowles – ‘Sustainability from the Bottom-up: An Holistic Approach to Environmental Management’
11.50 Robin Asby – ‘What do we mean by ‘Systems Thinking’
12.20 Vladimir Talala – Web 4.0 and its Cybernetic Design
13.00 Lunch
13.30 Graham Mitchell – Metaphorum Website
14:15 David Beatty – ‘Viable Crossover’
15.30 Refreshments
15.40 Plenary
15.45 Conference Closes
Speakers
David Beatty – ‘Preliminary explanation for Viable Crossover activity’
John Waters – ‘Management of Complexity in a Community Banking Partnership’
Colin Beveridge – ‘Complexity and Change in the Irrational Enterprise’
Pedro Pablo Cardosa– ‘Complexity approaches to self-organisation: A case study from an Irish eco-village’
Leonid Ototsky – ‘The VSM as a foundation for social systems in the XXI Century’
Kathryn Knowles – ‘Sustainability from the Bottom-up: An Holistic Approach to Environmental Management’
Robin Asby – ‘What do we mean by ‘Systems Thinking’
Vladimir Talala – Web 4.0 and its Cybernetic Design
Graham Mitchell – Metaphorum Website
David Beatty – ‘Viable Crossover