New book: 'Small Arcs of Larger Circles; by Nora Bateson

In her new book 'Small Arcs of Larger Circles', Nora Bateson invites us to weave together the rigor of systems thinking and complexity thinking with the expansiveness of our embodied, aesthetic experience - and introduces us to a new language and vocabulary of contextual, mutual learning.

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Systems Resources from IIED

IIED is a policy and action research organisation in sustainable development. Based in London IIEDworks in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to strengthen their voice in decision-making arenas that affect them.

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MITs Free Software for Planning Large Cities of the Future

MIT has just released its open source Urban Network Analysis software for analysing interdependent aspects of urban development at city level.

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Resources: Systemic Thinking for Planners and Designers

Gary Metcalf a visiting member of faculty at Aalto university in Finland has collated a useful list of Systems liiterature resources under broad topic headings.

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Co-creation without systems thinking can be dangerous

Gerald Midgely asks 'Why does the theory and practice of co-creation need to be informed by systems thinking?' Co-creation without a thorough understanding of systems thinking can be deeply problematic. Essentially, we need a theory and practice of systemic co-creation.

To read in full this interesting blog article by Gerald at www.i2insights.org go to here.

Soft systems methodology cartoon

Here is  soft systems methodology via cartoon:

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WCSA 2017 in Brazil more details

For more details on the WCSA 7th World Conference on Governing Turbulence - Risk and Opportunities in the Complexity Age that will be held in Brazil in 2017 download the flyer here.

Peter Checkland on the origins of SSM

Here is Peter Checkland describing the origins of the Soft Systems Methodology.

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SSM - Rich Pictures in Evaluation

Judy Oakden describes the use of Rich Pictures in SSM in evaluation.

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New Book! A Guide to Systems Research

New book A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes and Practice is available from Springer. Authors are M.C. Edson, P. Buckle Henning and S. Sankaran. Introductory 20% discount see below.

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