The Third Metaphorum Conference
May 5th & 6th 2005
Institute for the Study of Social Change,
National University of Ireland Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Directions on getting to UCD. Please also refer to the map of the Belfield Campus of UCD.
The meeting took place in the seminar room of the Institute for the Study of Social Change/Geary Institute.
Abstracts
Wednesday 4th May
7:00 -9:00 Senior Common Room, Room B104 in Area 14 on map, UCD Belfied: Salon Philosophique with Margeret Heath and Ruth Egan. Dinner at 9:30 at Donnybrook Fayre.
Thursday 5th May
9:00-9:30: Registration at the Institute for the Study of Social Change/Geary Institute, Ground Floor Seminar Room.
| Chair: A. Moscardini | 9:30 – 12:30 |
| Session 1 Governance | |
| Paul Stokes | Designing Governance |
| Steve Wright | Looming struggles over border control |
| Luc Hoebeke | Representative democracy vs. participation: system 3 and system 5 characteristics |
| Angela Espinosa | Designing self governed communities with the VSM |
Lunch 12:30 – 2:30 in the Norah Green Room, UCD Belfield
| Chair: P. Stokes | 2:30 – 5:30 |
| Session 2 Applications | |
| Leonie Solomons & Alfredo Moscardini | Reflecting Sri Lanka’s peace quest in VSM iconographic language |
| Andrey Sergeyev | Using the VSM to Understand an Emergent Post-Soviet Economy |
| Leonid Ototsky | Stafford Beer’s work in Russia and beyond |
| Rod Thomas | Plans for reform versus utopian blueprints: On the difference between diagnosis and design |
Dinner in Eden, Temple Bar, Dublin City from 7:30PM
Friday 6th May
| Chair: A. Leonard | 9:30 – 12:30 |
| Session 3 Epistemology | |
| Ern Reynolds | Political Physics: or, How Westerners Think |
| Margeret Heath | Cybernetics and Utopia: The Role of Imagination |
| Stephanie Heuer | Somebodies and Nobodies, overcoming the abuse of rank |
| Maurice Yolles | Knowledge Cybernetics |
Lunch on Campus at a variety of venues
| Chair: M. Yolles | 2:30 – 4:30 |
| Session 4: Issues of Organization | |
| Allenna Leonard | Accountability, Risk and the Systems Approach |
| Stefan M. Wasilewski | Rationalising Communication & Decision-Making as an Enterprise Risk Metric |
| Ralf-Eckhard Türke | RET_eGovernance-Balancing Interactions |
| Raul Espejo | Towards Inclusive Governance |
4:30 – 5:15: Metaphorum Wrap-Up
Dinner in Ragazzi, 6.00 PM, Dalkey, County Dublin.