In this Conference we continued the conversations we initiated in 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 legacy. In addition to Metaphorum members, other invited speakers are
people who have been working on developing innovations in businesses, education and communities that are ‘cybernetically sound’ and constitute an example of
alternative ways of dealing with the major challenges in the 21st Century,
particularly the creation of a sustainable society. We would like speakers to
present their projects and to reflect on them, from a cybernetic/ complexity
perspective.
Metaphorum Conference-Woodend Creative Workspace, Scarborough
2nd & 3rd December 2010
Programme
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
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