Reporting on research-in-progress on Sciencing and Philosophizing on Threads in #SystemsThinking tracing history of #pragmatism of #EricTrist + #FredEEmery & #WestChurchman + #RussellAckoff.
Web video with #GarySMetcalf after #InternationalSocietyForTheSystemsSciences meeting
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/sciencing-philosophizing-st-on-2023-07-10/
Web video recording on #SystemsThinking Selected Readings (1969) edited by #FredEEmery, with personal history of science by #DavidLHawk and #JohnPourdehnad .
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-1969-hawk-pourdehnad/
Book excerpts at https://st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc/view/welcome-visitors/view/systems-thinking-1969/view/systems-thinking-selected-readings-penguin-1969
Systems Thinking Ontario https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
What have we learned or forgotten since #SystemsThinking (1969) Penguin reader 18 chapters, edited by #FredEEmery?
Join #DavidLHawk and #JohnPourdehnad online on June 12 6:30pm ET for reflection and discussions.
https://wiki.st-on.org/2023-06-12
https://st1969.eventbrite.ca
https://st1969.daviding.wiki.openlearning.cc
June 12 (the second Monday of the month) is the 111th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Eventbrite at https://st1969.eventbrite.ca . Systems Thinking, 1969 It's been over 50 years, since the publication of the first edition of Systems Thinking: Selected Readings, a
Rereading the introduction to the 1969 _Systems Thinking: Selected Readings_ Penguin paperbook surfaces some choices by the editor #FredEEmery that I hadn't previously appreciated.
A 1989 book celebrating "#EricTrist in Canada", with a chapter by David Morley (Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University (Toronto), 2001-2004), filled in gaps between 1965 #FredEEmery "The #CausalTexture of #OrganizationalEnvironments" to current day #SystemsThinking on organizations.
http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/trist-in-canada-organizational-change-action-learning/
David Ing