A systems approach to systems restoration
A great article in The Guardian about the biggest river restoration project in Europe
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Systems and change
Systems complexity
Wonderful illustration by Virpi Oinonen which made me think about the metaphor of missing the forest by focusing only on a tree
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What does systems thinking mean to you?
As I continue to explore and learn about systems thinking and how to apply it to the research and development work I do, I found quite interesting the question that is posed in the introduction of a course I am doing: What does systems thinking mean to you?
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The problems of our time for Gregory Bateson
A quote by Gregory Bateson about the problems of out time
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On the ways of learning by Mary Catherine Bateson
I am reading the Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way by Mary Catherine Bateson. What a wonderful book
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Food policy as doing. An example from the 1970s from Finland of how to solve a complex social and economic problem with a system approach.
Thank you to Adam Kremeia for sharing with me this Guardian Long Read about the failing food systems in the UK and for pointing me to the experience from Northern Karelia in Finland. The article is titled We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system. It is a very
Living in a World of Systems, excerpts from Donella Meadows
Excerpts from Thinking in Systems, A Primer by Donella Meadows “People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake. They are likely to assume that here, in systems analysis, in interconnection and complication, in the power of the computer, here at last,
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Exploring complexity and the implications for leadership and decision making in a changing world. In conversation with Marco Valente.
One of the nicer aspects of exploring, reading and learning about systems thinking and complexity is to discover interesting blogs, papers and books and to get in touch with the authors to learn more about their points of view and their journeys into systems. Some months ago, one of my Google searches brought me to