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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A shift in perception: exploring ways to work with complexity in international development
I really enjoyed to go back this week to this paper from 2016 by ODI’s Anne Buffardi: When Theory Meets Reality. I went back to Anne’s paper because I am doing some work on defining some principle the can help design and set up monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) systems for development project/programmes that tackle
From Cold Data to Warm Data
Warm Data are contextual and relational information about complex systems.In other words, warm data involve transcontextual information about the interrelationships that integrate a complex system, as well as interwoven complex systems.Warm Data Lab I wrote to a colleague yesterday. During a meeting he had asked about a research paper he had written with others. He was
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Snapshots from my journey into systems
My journey into systems thinking started in mid 2017.
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What is a system?
I am working with some colleagues at the EdTech Hub on defining EdTech systems. We are reviewing general systems literature as well as literature on systems more specific to EdTech. I went back to read something I wrote on knowlede to policy systems (or evidence ecosystems) three years ago in the book I co-edited, Knowledge,