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Stafford's Work
Date Speaker Title
October 2, 2024 Stephen Harwood VSM & Ethics
September 4, 2024 Mark Johnson The Topologies of Prediction: Management, Cybernetics, and Artificial Intelligence
June 26, 2024 Emanuele Quintarelli, Krishan Mathis From systems to entrepreneurial ecosystemic organizations. Exploring Haier’s RenDanHeYi.
June 5, 2024 Rodrigo Fernández Albornoz The heart of the 4th industrial revolution in the brain of Viable System Model.
May 8, 2024 Dr. Peter Robertson The Sapient Paradox as the consequence of a cybernetical bifurcation in the evolution.
April 3, 2024 Andrew Pickering Cybernetics and the Environmental Crisis
March 6, 2024 Pille Bunnell Language as an Enabling Constraint
January 31, 2024 Michael Zargham From Viable  Organisations to Viable Ecologies
January 10 2024 Krishan Mathis Metaphorum Training Programme
December 6 2023 Bassam El Baroni & Jose-Carlos Mariategui Cybersyn 1973 / 2023
November 7 2023 Professor Massimo De Angelis Imagining the City (or anything else big scale) as a Commons: a Work in Progress
October 4 2023 John Beckford  Cybernetics and the Digital Transition and the Cybernetics of the Digital Transistion
September 29 2023 Professor Raul Espejo The Cybersyn Project
October 4 2023 John Beckford Cybernetics and the Digital Transition(and the Cybernetics OF the Digital Transition)
May 21st, 2023 John Waters and Ian Kendrick ‘An overview of a global discussion platform’
May 21st, 2023 Angela Espinosa to the American Society for Cybernetics ‘Sustainable Self-Governance in Business and Society Book’
May 3rd, 2023 Joe Truss ‘The Meta architecture of Team Syntegrity for participatory democracy’
April 5th, 2023 Raul Gonzalez Raul Gonzalez. ‘How to enhance business platforms using the Viable System Model (VSM) to face the current and future complexity business challenges’
March 15th, 2023 Mike Jackson Prof Mike Jackson. Alexander Bogdanov, Stafford Beer and intimations of a post-capitalist future
March 8th, 2023 Jose-Carlos Mariategui  Jose-Carlos Mariategui. ‘CENTRO and the construction of a mathematical     model for Latin America’
February 1st, 2023 Katharine Farrell Katharine Farrell. ‘Holarchies, heterarchies, and hermeneutics: exploring relationships, between Beer and Bateson’
January 4th, 2023 Vanilla Beer Vanilla Beer. ‘Interview with Vanilla Beer on her personal learning with Stafford ‘
December 14th 2022 M J Van de Wijnckel Revisiting Beyond Dispute
December 1st 2022 Olaf Brugman Olaf Brugman. ‘Ten Synergetic Ideas for the VSM and Management Cybernetics Community’
November 4th, 2022 Paul Pangaro Paul Pangaro. ‘Designing Conversations for Variety’.
October 5th, 2022 Jan De Visch. Jan De Visch. ‘Coherent Action: Linking Role and Work Contributions to Each other Through Real-Time Dialogue’.
Sept 7th, 2022 L Lavanderos, A. Malpartida. L Lavanderos, A. Malpartida. ‘Ecotomo, Ecopoiesis and No Required Variety’.
May 25 2022 Jane Searles and Roger Duck Designing Freedom Together
May 11 2022 Jose Perez-Rios How to make a fast diagnosis of a complex organization with Organizational Cybernetics? Framework and Tools.
April 20nd, 2022 Alan Rayner Natural Inclusion: The receptive simplicity in the heart of complexity and a compassionate, regenerative, and creative community life
Nov 10th. 2021 Mark Lambertz “Let’s build a productive social system by connecting people’s needs and technology’s capabilities – and get the job done.” 
Oct 13th. 2021 Robin Asby Thinking Systems
Sept 29th 2021 Pam Sydelko A Viable System Model Board Game for Designing Interagency Responses to Wicked Problems 
Sept 1st, 2021 Pedro Pablo Cardoso The cash of modernism and postmodernism in social activism: the ongoing case of the protesters in Colombia and the weaponization of systemic tools
Aug 18th, 2021 Enrique Rivera The Fourth World Cybernetics
Aug 4th, 2021 Maurice Yolles Mindset agency theory.
July 21st 2021 Alfonso Reyes A.  A new organisational from for a trans-disciplinary university. The case of Universidad de Ibagué
July 7th, 2021 Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos  The role of VSM in designing and managing future-fit organisations
June 23rd. 2021 Angus Jenkinson  What Is the Identity of an Organisation? 
June 9th, 2021 Markus Schwaninger Covid19 Pandemic – Dealing with the Unpredictable: Crisis Management in a Federation
May 26th, 2021 Bernhard Sterchi Alignment and autonomy on the last mile of execution – in defense of the wriggly lines
May 12th 2021 Allenna Leonard A VSM reflection on US politics and democracy
April 28th, 2021 Alfredo del Valle The Participatory Workspace: An online, complexity mgt & communications tool,
April the 14th, 2021 Angela Espinosa Sustainable Self Governance:Sustainable Self Governance
March 31st. 2021 Raghav Rajagopalan Meta Rational Ways of Knowing
March 17th, 2021 Igor Perko Invoking AI technology in organisations – a systemic examination
March the 3rd, 2021 Martin Pfiffner The third dimension of organizing
February the 24th  2021. Raul Espejo “The Enterprise Complexity Model: An Extension of the Viable System Model for Emerging Organisational Forms”
February 3 2021 Mike Jackson The soul of the Viable System Model
December 16 2020 Jonathan Huxley The Viability of Tribes
December 2 2020 Czeslaw Mesjasz Complexity and ignorance in the Information Society: A new methodological approach YouTube Link coming
November 20 2020 Manel Pretel-Wilson The Neo-Cybernetic Synthesis: Ashby’s True Legacy
November 11 2020 Barry Clemson & Hans-Peter Plag Monitoring the health of riverine systems
November 4 2020 Steve Morlidge The VSM in 2020 – more relevant than ever
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