Toronto, Ontario; Denver, CO; Berkeley, CA.
2014 TIC Retirees meeting. 31st Annual Meeting of the Toronto IBM Club Retirees. The group is an activity of the Toronto IBM Club, not a separate organization. Making a shift from snail mail distribution to email and Facebook group as complements to phone, recognizing that some members are over 90 years old. (Scarborough) 20140401 0930St. Andrews Cemetery, Scarborough, Ontario. Gravestones around the Muir family, who emigated to Canada in 1833. Congregation established by Scots driven out of England in 1818, original church built in 1819 as Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Scarborough is now part of Metropolitan Toronto, but in the years after the American Revolution, would have been in the wilds of Upper Canada (Scarborough, Ontario) 20140401 1340At Jazz Bistro, Dave Restivo with Marc Jordan. (Toronto) 20140411 2132At Jazz Bistro, Marc Jordan, Kevan McKenzie, Russ Boswell, Mark Lalama (Toronto) 20110411 2132Mountain Pleasant Cemetery annual family ritual. Mountain Pleasant Cemetery annual family ritual Candles and incense early this year at gravesite, with sister visiting Toronto, to convene father, aunt and families. Planted flowers, but water not yet turned on by cemetery, as temperatures dipping below zero at night. (Toronto) 20140420Push back at Denver Airport, view from the lounge (Denver, Colorado) 20140424Reading 1967 “Pattern Manual” by Christopher Alexander et al. The 21 page manual is preceded by a 6 page description of the incorporation of the Center for Environmental Structure, of which the first 2 pages and title page are missing in this copy (Berkeley, California) 20140426
Violet Ing (- April 30, 2014) Spouse of Kent Ing, mother of Jeanne, David and Ben, grandmother to Lisa, Nicole, Kevin, Adam, Eric, Noah, Ryan, Madeleine and Owen. (photo taken in Toronto in November 2004) Visitation to honour Violet Ing, Sunday, May 4, 2014, 4-8 p.m. See https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cn6kins6gojfbuuvou43feh2jhs?authkey=CL7VnvTwity_ZQ . Funeral for Violet Ing, Monday, May 5, 10 a.m. with pre-funeral visitation at 9 a.m. Please join the family for lunch at a Chinese restaurant TBD. See https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/crvvlelp391piv3ijk2gu325k18?authkey=CPPaganZl_XW1wE. Pine Hills Cemetery is at 625 Birchmount Rd, Toronto, ON M1K 1R1. For directions, routing is available from Google Maps. The cemetery provides a memorial page that will be available online until June 14.
Researching the philosophical foundations of systems theory to understand the meanings of “causal texture, contextualism, contextural” from the Tavistock legacy led to philosopher Stephen C. Pepper. The philosophical lineage and contributions of Pepper were the focus for the January online meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario. A deep reading of Pepper’s work (over a month!) was […]
The first Systems Thinking Ontario session for 2023 is scheduled for January 9, on “Root Metaphors and World Hypotheses”. This is philosophical content, for which a guided tour and discussion will be better than attempting a solo reading of the World Hypotheses wiki on the Open Learning Commons. Upon announcing the session on social media, […]
The October online meeting of Systems Thinking Ontario presented an opportunity for an update on progress made by the Systems Changes Learning Circle by 2022. A slide deck had been prepared an in-person seminar at the Universitat de Barcelona Graduate Programmes in Business, organized by Ryan C. Armstrong, one week earlier. Our regular monthly meeting, […]
Just before starting a trip to Spain, I received an invitation from Ryan C. Armstrong at the Universitat de Barcelona Business School to give some lectures. The students in the bachelor’s programme in international business had a short mention of systems thinking in the first lecture of the operationa management class. With that brief entry, […]
While the adaptive cycle and panarchical connections reflect the possiblity of movement from one stable state to another, it’s possible to get “stuck” in a disfavoured trap. Social ecological systems involve both natural systems and human systems. After widespread recognition of the 2002 Panarchy book, reflections in 2010 revealed further development of the theory and […]
In order to appreciate the influence of resilience science and panarchy on ongoing research into systems changes, revisiting foundational works sometimes resurfaces insights. In the 2002 Panarchy book, Chapter 15 provides a summary of findings. In the course of the project hat led to this volume, we identified twelve conclusions (Table 15-1) in our search for […]
In conversation, @zeynep with @ezraklein reveal authentic #SystemsThinking in (i) appreciating that “science” is constructed by human collectives, (ii) the west orients towards individual outcomes rather than population levels; and (iii) there’s an over-emphasis on problems of the moment, and…Read more ›
In the question-answer period after the lecture, #TimIngold proposes art as a discipline of inquiry, rather than ethnography. This refers to his thinking On Human Correspondence. — begin paste — [75m26s question] I am curious to know what art, or…Read more ›
How might our society show value for the long term, over the short term? Could we think about taxation over time, asks @carlotaprzperez in an interview: 92% for 1 day; 80% within 1 month; 50%-60% tax for 1 year; zero tax for 10 years.Read more ›
For the @ArchFoundation, #TimIngold distinguishes outcome-oriented making from process-oriented growing, revisiting #MartinHeidegger “Building Dwelling Thinking”. Organisms are made; artefacts grow. The distinction seems obvious, until you stop to ask what assumptions it contains, about the inside and outside of things…Read more ›
In web conference, #HermanDaly says #EcologicalEconomics used to get attacked from the right, now it's from the left. Panel @revkin @jon_d_erickson @ktkish @sophiesanniti #TimCrowshaw #KatieHorner livestreamed #sustainwhat .Read more ›
Complementing the idea of a @longnow , @nfergus provokes the challenge of a #shortthen as the online social media platforms distract the larger perspectives on history.Read more ›
An online version of a special issue of Paunch (1980) on "Root Metaphor: The Live Thought of Stephen C. Pepper" has been preserved on the internet Archive
Attributed to Hippocrates is the use of the term kairos in observational methodology, and the presentation of significant findings. Just to be scholarly, Hippocrates is generally reported as a institution, rather than a person. Although Hippocrates is generally accepted as the father of medicine, few have recognized, or even realized, the extent to which he […]
Autopoiesis, as coined by Humberto Maturana, is in the contextualist root metaphor of Stephen C. Pepper, rather than the organismic root metaphor, say #HowardMancing and #JenniferMarstonWilliam .
