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1 Pre-conference Workshop: Mind in Nature: Gregory Bateson and the Ecology of Experience
(Optional and separate cost from the conference)
Friday, July 7 (4:00 pm) through Sunday, July 9 (3:00 pm)
Held at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center, 35755 Hauser Bridge Road, Cazadero, CA
See http://projects.isss.org/Main/Sonoma2006Pre-AndPost-ConferenceWorkshops for details
2 Saturday, July 8, 2006 -- Arrivals and Registration
| 13:00 to 18:00 | Registration | Cooperage | ||
| Evening | Dinner | Self-organized, not included with conference | ||
3 Sunday, July 9 -- Pre-conference Workshops (Optional)
| 14:00 to 16:00 | Sign and Space (Cybernetics) - Presenter: Louis H. Kauffman | Cooperage One |
| 14:00 to 16:00 | Comprehensive Introduction to the Practice of Systems Science: A Workshop Len Troncale and IAS Students ($50 fee; students free with ID) | Cooperage Three |
4 Sunday, July 9, 2006 -- Conference Opening
| 13:00 to 18:00 | Registration | Cooperage | ||
| 17:00 to 19:15 | Reception & Dinner | University Commons | ||
| 19:30 to 20:00 | Welcome & Opening Remarks: Debora Hammond, ISSS President Eduardo Ochoa, Sonoma State Vice President for Academic Affairs Lou Kauffman, President, American Society for Cybernetics John Pourdehnad, Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches | Cooperage | ||
| 20:00 to 21:30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FRITJOF CAPRA | Cooperage | ||
5 Monday, July 10 -- Morning Plenary: The Dynamics of Complex Systems
| 07:30 to 08:15 | (Optional) Reflection Roundtable, moderated by Sue Gabriele (Please allow a few minutes to travel to the Cooperage) | Harvest Room/Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 8:30 | Breakfast | Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 12:00 | Registration Desk open | Cooperage Lobby | ||
| 09:00 to 09:15 | Welcome | Debora Hammond, President Gary Metcalf, Program Chair Kathia and Alexander Laszlo, Local Organizing Committee Chairs | Cooperage | |
| 09:15 to 10:45 | Opening Panel | Ralph Abraham, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz Yaneer Bar Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute George Richardson, System Dynamics Group Geoffrey West, President, Santa Fe Institute | Cooperage | |
| 10:45 to 11:00 | Refreshments | Cooperage | ||
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Small group discussion among participants | Cooperage | ||
| 11:30 to 12:00 | Written questions and responses from panel | Cooperage | ||
| 12:00 to 13:30 | Lunch | Sauvignon Quad | ||
6 Monday, July 10 -- Afternoon Parallel Streams
| Time | Stream A (Schulz 1121) | Stream B (Salazar 2013) | Stream C (Salazar 2015) | Stream D (Salazar 2019) | Stream E (Salazar 2020) | Stream F (Salazar 2023) | Stream G (Salazar 2025) | Stream H (Schulz 3001) |
| 13:30 to 15:30 | Session 1A / Systems Applications in Business & Industry Wang - Corporate Change and Traditional Chinese Medicine Leonard - Walking the Line: Making and Dissolving Distinctions Steiner - Innovation as a Two-Sided Coin … Risopoulos - What do innovative leaders … myths | Session 1B / Evolutionary Development Introduction and Overview of the ED SIG Ewoldt - Natural Systems: Demonstrating the Interdependencies Derickson - We're Not Dumb Enough to Survive as a Species | Session 1C / Agent-based Social Systems Science? Hermawan, Kijima - Foundation of Subjective Confrontation Analysis Yoshida - Concept Creation and Soft Systems Methodology Kobayashi, Kijima - Group Decision Analysis (GDA) | Session 1D / Systems Approaches in Arts-Informed Inquiry? Klisanin - Exploring Evolutionary Guidance Media Giunta, Miglio - Fractal Syncretism: The Visual Art of François Miglio Horn - Interactive Mural of the History of the Ideas of… | Session 1E / General Theories of Systems Troncale - Linkage Propositions of the SSP Drack - Is Paul Weiss' and Ludwig Bertalanffys System… Hodgson - -Qualitative Systems Thinking Meux - Toward a General Systems Approach to… | Session 1F / Info Systems Design & Technology? Kampfner - The Need of Compatibility of Information Processing Lind - Information - A Basis for Action Lind - Systems Science in the Information Society | Session 1G / Bateson Forum Broadbent - Collapse - a second look Combs - Daddy. Why are People so Complex? Malloy, Jensen - Mapping Gregory Bateson's Epistemology to Nonlinear… | Session 1H / Symposium with plenary speakers |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||||||
| 16:00 to 18:00 | Session 2A / Systems Applications in Business & Industry Wakeland, Venkat - Is Lean Necessarily Green? Karlsson, Löf, Palm, Huisingh - Product design as a key to a business system perspective Steiner - Organizational Creativity as a Prereq … Dawson - From Theory To Practice | Session 2B / Evolutionary Development Teissier-Fuentes - Collective Intelligence Development for Sustainability Puente - The Hypotenuse: The Pathway of Peace Hays, Wasilewski - The Conscious Evolution of History | Session 2C / Agent-based Social Systems Science? Konno, Kijima - Is Good Algorithm for Computer Players also Good for… Perez - SimDrug?: Exploring the Complexity of Illicit Drug Markets | Session 2D / Systems Approaches in Arts-Informed Inquiry? Sedita - Visualization of the Organization Woodward - Syntagral Design Miglio - Fractal Syncretism Kinyon - Art as Inquiry | Session 2E / General Theories of Systems Glassop - The Nature of Change Kauffman - Eigenform Fletcher, Miller, Dodd, Hilbert- Operationalizing resilience Rasmussen - Toward Empirical Investigation of the Self | Session 2F / Info Systems Design & Technology? Mora - Theory of Systems and Information Systems Research Rosicky - Knowledge and Conceptual Information Simon - Innovative approaches to water security | Session 2G / Bateson Forum Aydin - Evolving Science and Humanity Corliss - The collective dynamics of social systems | Session 2H / Presentation from the Stafford Beer Archives - Doug Haynes |
7 Monday, July 10 -- Evening Activities
| 18:00 to 19:30 | Dinner | Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 19:30 to 21:30 | Nora Bateson and Alfonso Montouri, Preliminary Discussion of Gregory Bateson Film | Cooperage | ||
| 19:30 to 20:30 | Student SIG Meeting | TBA | ||
8 Tuesday, July 11 -- Morning Plenary: Self-Organization and Living Systems
| 07:30 to 08:15 | (Optional) Reflection Roundtable, moderated by Sue Gabriele | Harvest Room/Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 8:30 | Breakfast | Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 12:00 | Registration Desk open | Cooperage Lobby | ||
| 09:00 to 09:15 | Program Updates | Gary Metcalf, Program Chair | Cooperage | |
| 09:15 to 12:30 | New Views of Evolution with Discussion of Implications in World Cafe Format Host: Juanita Brown; Co-Originator, The World Cafe Speakers: Sally Goerner, Director, Integral Science Institute Susan Oyama, Professor Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate School, City University of New York Pille Brunnell, Adjunct Professor, Royal Roads University | Cooperage | ||
| 12:30 to 13:30 | Lunch | Sauvignon Quad | ||
9 Tuesday, July 11 -- Afternoon Parallel Streams
| Time | Stream A (Schulz 1121) | Stream B (Salazar 2013) | Stream C (Salazar 2015) | Stream D (Salazar 2019) | Stream E (Salazar 2020) | Stream F (Salazar 2023) | Stream G (Salazar 2025) | Stream H (Salazar 2016) |
| 13:30 to 15:30 | Session 3A / Systems Applications in Business & Industry Buckle - Obstacles to Consciousness in Corporations Pourdehnad - Unlearning/Learning Organizations Maani, Li - Counter-Intuitive Managerial Interventions Risopoulos - Which Language Need Organizations … | Session 3B / Evolutionary Development Shongwe, Andrew - Informal Settlements Montoya Rodríguez - The measurement of the development of system thinking Tejeida-Padilla, Vargas-Castro, et al - In Search of a Systemic Model of Municipal Integration | Session 3C / Session on Terror, Torture, Secrecy, Propaganda, Democracy, and Peace Development? Kim - Structural Coupling in Engagement Diplomacy Slawski - Torture and Secrecy vs.Democracy and Peace Development Aceves, Audefroy, Peon - DSV: Disasters, a Systemic Vision Hilton - The Social Responsibility of Commercial Corporation for Security Against Terrorism | Session 3D / Designing Educational Systems? Daniel - A Systems Approach to Distance Education Dunnigan - Navigating by the North Star Cabrera - A Minimal Concept Theory of Systems Thinking | Session 3E / General Theories of Systems Glassop - A Theoretical Description for DNA Rosicky - Circularity of human knowing and systems theory Wilby - Using General System Theory Sancho - Social evolution and Networks | Session 3F / SIG on Human Systems Inquiry Collen - Research Processes in Human Organizations Kiehne, Klein - Systemic Inquiry Long - Dancing With Demons | Session 3G / What is Life/Living Browne, O'Regan, Moles - Assessing the Current Sustainability and Impacts of… Cottam, Ranson, Vounckx - Replicating Robert Rosen's (M,R) Systems Fields - Kumu Pohaku (Stones as Teachers) Kineman - Information as Communication | Session 3H / Symposium on Food and Agriculture |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||||||
| 16:00 to 18:00 | Session 4A / | Session 4B / Evolutionary Development Lopes - Interactive Landscape Management Science Magliocca - Managing Overwhelming Complexity In Human-Ecosystem diZerega - Watershed Restoration Groups and Democratic Forest Trusts | Session 4C / Org Trans and Social Change Badillo-Piña, Tejeida-Padilla, et al - Ecumenical Factors that Impact in the Society Booher, Innes - Complexity and Adaptive Policy Systems Harvey - Using a Systems Approach as a Framework | Session 4D / Designing Educational Systems? Mc Murtry - Linking Complexity Science with Social Constructivist… Mc Murtry - Using Complexity Science to Understand and Support … Snow, Magliocca, Pourdehnad - The crisis in education | Session 4E / General Theories of Systems Slawski - True, Good and General System Theories Sancho - Spatial Energy and temporal Information Abdur - Rethinking Systems Movement | Session 4F / SIG on Human Systems Inquiry Michail, Teal, Basta - Progressive Learning Processes Model Petranker - An Alternative to Causality-Centered Systems Methodologies | Session 4G / Systems Pathology Bowers - “Someone call a systems pathologist!” Troncale - Recognizing System’s Diseases: The Potential of Systems Pathology | Session 4H / |
10 Tuesday, July 11 -- Evening Activities
| 18:00 to 19:30 | Dinner | Zinfandel Dining Hall |
| 18:00 to 19:30 | ISSS Board of Directors meeting (over dinner) | TBA |
| 19:30 to 21:30 | Panel on Local Initiatives (Water, Food, Climate Change) Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Anne Hancock, Sonoma County Climate Protection Campaign TBA, North Bay Food Initiatives | Cooperage |
| 19:30 to 21:30 | ASC Business Meeting | Schulz 1121 |
| 19:30 to 20:30 | Student SIG Meeting | TBA |
11 Wednesday, July 12 -- Morning Plenary: Ecology and Sustainability
| 07:30 to 08:15 | (Optional) Reflection Roundtable, moderated by Sue Gabriele | Harvest Room/Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 8:30 | Breakfast | Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 12:00 | Registration Desk open | Cooperage Lobby | ||
| 09:00 to 09:15 | Program Updates | Gary Metcalf | Cooperage | |
| 09:15 to 10:30 | John Adams, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center Richard Norgaard, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley Jane Lorand, Co-Founder, Green MBA, New College, California | Cooperage | ||
| 10:30 to 12:00 | Refreshments and Self-Organizing Conversation | Cooperage | ||
| 12:00 to 13:30 | Lunch | Sauvignon Quad |
| 12:00 to 13:30 | Board of Trustees lunch | TBA |
12 Wednesday, July 12 -- Afternoon Parallel Streams
| Time | Stream A (Schulz 1121) | Stream B (Salazar 2013) | Stream C (Salazar 2015) | Stream D (Salazar 2019) | Stream E (Salazar 2020) | Stream F (Salazar 2023) | Stream G (Salazar 2025) | Stream H (Salazar 2016) |
| 13:30 to 15:30 | Session 5A / | Session 5B / Evolutionary Development Laszlo, Laszlo - Fostering a Sustainable Learning Society Espinosa, Harnden, Walker - Design of sustainable organizations and networks Laszlo, Laszlo - Transiting To Sustainability | Session 5C / Org Trans and Social Change Kato, Ono, Sekiguchi - The Effects of Family and Homemaking on the Career King - Contemporary agri-ecological systems Eades - Arena Housing | Session 5D / SIG on Systems-Specific Technology de la Pena - Consequences of Increments in Cognitive Structure Gorbis - Cognitive Dictionary: A Representation of Shared Reality Korn - systemic view of parts of the world | Session 5E / Systems Philosophy & Ethics Fielden - Mindful Knowing Graves - The Emergence of Ethical Norms in Human Systems Umpleby - Unifying Epistemologies by Combining World, Language | Session 5F / Session on Global Systems? Piepers - Dynamics and Development of the International System Umpleby - Reflexivity in Social Systems: (Soros) Patwardhan, McDavid - Co-Sustenance in Ecosystems Greben - Non-linear systems and solutions | Session 5G / SIG on Living Systems Analysis Bailey, Swanson - Social Entropy Theory, Macro Accounting, and Entropy Kwon - Achieving Sustainable Development Sim - The Current Relations between Two Koreas | Session 5H / Medical & Health Systems Aceves, Hernandez, et al - Systemic Health: A Research-Action Course De Bavelaere - Applying an Elementary Biocybernetic System to Medicine Mc Cracken - Public Wellness: revisiting utopia and ideology Morales-Matamoros, Contreras-Troya, et al - Epilepsy as a Dynamic Complex System |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||||||
| 16:00 to 18:00 | Session 6A / | Session 6B / Evolutionary Development Vizzoni - In Search of Sacred Intelligence Widhalm - Toward an Epistemology of Intimacy von Emmel, Borsotti, Brinkmann, et al - Dreamfish and the ISSS Dreamscape | Session 6C / Org Trans and Social Change Morales-Matamoros, Martinez-Cruz, et al - Mexican Voter Network as a Dynamic Complex System Patiño-Ortiz, Galvez-Medina, et al - Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics Peon-Escalante, Aceves, Badillo - Systemic design for a sustainable management process | Session 6D / Student SIG - Magliocca | Session 6E / Systems Philosophy & Ethics Jensen - From Economic to Sustainable Development Li - Middle Way as Unbounded Synergetic Wholeness Li - A Synergetic Learning Approach to Fostering Mindfulness Ayala-Rodríguez - An Analysis of the System Theoretic… | Session 6F / Critical Systems? Krippendorff - Language in the Constitution of Social Systems Petkov, Petkova, Nepal, Andrew - Paradigm Issues in Critical Systems Thinking Snow - Limits to democracy | Session 6G / SIG on Living Systems Analysis Simms - Early Social Innovations Tracy - Evolutionary Processes in Living Systems | Session 6H / Medical & Health Systems Miller - Reconstructing Consciousness Tejeida-Padilla, Pino-Meza, Santos-Reyes - Systemic Analysis of the Tourism and Health Relationship Robinson - What We Can Do Locally Cavana, Clifford - A System Dynamics Analysis of the… |
13 Wednesday, July 12 -- Evening Activities
| 18:00 to 19:30 | Dinner | Harvest Room/Zinfandel Dining Hall |
| 18:00 to 19:30 | ISSS Council meeting, including SIG chairs and Chapter chairs (over dinner) | TBA |
| 19:30 to 20:00 | Vicker's Award Paper Presentation | Cooperage |
| 20:00 to 21:30 | Bridging Generations Panel: Past Presidents and Student SIG | Cooperage |
14 Thursday, July 13 -- Morning Plenary: Social Systems Design & Practice
David's note: Timing is the same as Day 2 morning
| 07:30 to 08:15 | (Optional) Reflection Roundtable, moderated by Sue Gabriele | Location Harvest Room/Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 8:30 | Breakfast | Location Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 12:00 | Registration Desk open | Location Cooperage Lobby | ||
| 09:00 to 09:15 | Program Updates | Location Cooperage | ||
| 09:15 to 11:20 | Interactive exploration of social systems design in everyday life in which participants pull forth ideas and threads from previous sessions – as well as their own body of knowledge and experience – and work them into stories around democracy, complexity, and sustainability that provide us with paths forward. In other words, participants will take part in an experiential process of social systems design: a disciplined future creating inquiry to create the social systems in which we work, learn and live – | Location Cooperage | ||
| 11:20 to 12:15 | Reflections & Connections from Panel: Panelist react to what they've seen, heard, felt and bring in their personal research and interests into perspective for consideration. | Moderator: Todd Johnston, Tomorrow Makers Panelists: John Broadbent, University of Technology, Sydney Alexander and Kathia Laszlo, Syntony Quest, San Francisco Gail Taylor, Tomorrow Makers | Location Cooperage | |
| 12:15 to 13:30 | Lunch | Sauvignon Quad | ||
15 Thursday, July 13 -- Afternoon Parallel Streams
| Time | Stream A (Schulz 1121) | Stream B (Salazar 2013) | Stream C (Salazar 2015) | Stream D (Salazar 2019) | Stream E (Salazar 2020) | Stream F (Salazar 2023) | Stream G (Salazar 2025) | Stream H (Salazar 2016) |
| 13:30 to 15:30 | Session 7A / | Session 7B / Global Agoras and Conversation Session (Bausch, Albinson, et al) | Session 7C / Org Trans and Social Change Peon-Escalante, Oliva, Badillo - Integral transformation of organizational systems Pusztai - Sustainability Planning and its Role in Creating Capacity Stephens - A Critique of an Australian Community Managed Food… Tippett, Griffiths - Applying Systems to Capacity-Building | Session 7D / Session on Systems in Latin America ? Avalos - Improvements in the Water Usage in Mexico City Hernandez-Simon, Tejeida-Padilla,et al - High Performance Work Systems in Mexican Organizations Leon Vega - Model for the Development of the… Montbrun - Youth at risk groups as autopoietic systems Orduñez, Badillo - Reflections on the Evolution of the Interior Existence…'' | Session 7E / Systems Philosophy & Ethics Mulej - Interdisciplinary Systems Thinking Dockens - Women Are More Intelligent Than Men Li - Viable Urban Settlements Li - Systems Tools for Institutional Transformation | Session 7F / General Evolution Research Group Session & Business Meeting? | Session 7G / Systems Hierarchy? diZerega - Boundaries and Conflict Between Social and Ecological… Gabriele - The “Hard” Facts of “Soft” Social Systems Rasmussen - A Systems View of Self Cottam, Ranson, Vounckx - Living in Hyperscale | Session 7H / Services Economics Symposium on systemic issues and principles for economics of service relationships. Warmoth and McDavid with Spohrer, Damiris, Patwardhan, Ring, Davis, Ballard, Hammond and others, with open discussion and breakouts. |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||||||
| 16:00 to 18:00 | Session 8A / | Session 8B / Applied Systems Tejeida-Padilla, Avila-Osornio, et al - Toward a Design of an Instrument for… Badillo - Systemic Analysis of the Problem Situation of Water… Maier - Sustainability and Financial Systems | Session 8C / Org Trans and Social Change Wallis - A Sideways Look at Systems Yolles - From Knowledge Cybernetics to Feng Shui Yolles - Organisational Fitness | Session 8D / Session on Systems in Latin America ? Morales-Matamoros, Garcia-Otamendi, et al - Fractal Dynamics of Mexican Stock Market Index Volatility Tejeida-Padilla, Bermudez-Rodriguez, et al - Toward a Model of Transition for the ISO 9000 Norms Tejeida-Padilla, Navarro-Barrientos, et al - Toward the Design of an Audiovisual Room for the Cultural… | Session 8E / Systems Philosophy & Ethics Bartter - Re-Constructuring “Culture” Carter - Science, Cybernetics and Knowing Hilgartner - A Lethal Fundamental Error | Session 8F / General Evolution Research Group Session and Business Meeting? | Session 8G / Systems Education (G.A. Swanson & Len Troncale) Troncale - A Minor Degree in Comparative Systems Analysis (CSA) | Session 8H / Services Economics (continued) |
16 Thursday, July 13 -- Evening Activities
| 18:00 to 21:30 | Reception & Banquet Music: Philip Boulding & Magical Strings and Sonoma County Chamber Singers | University Commons, Cost $30 | ||
17 Friday, July 14 -- Morning Plenary: Interactive Synthesis
| 07:30 to 08:15 | (Optional) Reflection Roundtable, moderated by Sue Gabriele | Harvest Room/Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:15 to 09:00 | Breakfast | Zinfandel Dining Hall | ||
| 08:00 to 12:00 | Registration Desk open | Cooperage Lobby | ||
| 09:00 to 09:15 | Program Updates - Gary Metcalf | Cooperage | ||
| 09:15 to 09:45 | Jim Kijima, ISSS Incoming President | Cooperage | ||
| 09:45 to 10:15 | ISSS Membership Meeting | Cooperage | ||
| 10:15 to 10:30 | Coffee Break | Cooperage | ||
| 10:30 to 11:00 | Peter Bishop, Institute for Futures Research | Cooperage | ||
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Lecture: Ervin Laszlo, General Evolution Research Group | Cooperage | ||
| 11:30 to 12:30 | Community Finale with all Members: Dreamfish | Cooperage | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | Sauvignon Quad | ||
18 Friday, July 14 -- Afternoon Activities
| 13:30 to 17:30 | Sustainability Tour: Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (cost = $50 per person) | |
| 13:30 to 16:30 | Workshop: Language, Cybernetics, and 'Knowing' - Weld S. Carter, Jr; Martha A. Bartter; C. A. Hilgartner, MD See http://projects.isss.org/Main/Sonoma2006Pre-AndPost-ConferenceWorkshops for details | Cooperage | ||
| 15:00 to 21:00 | Benefit: Dreaming Our Future (minimum donation $50) (See http://www.dreamfish.org/dreaming_our_future.html) | Private Home; Sonoma, California | ||
19 Friday, July 14 -- Evening Activities: Food Connections Workshop
| 6:00 - 9:30 pm | Food Connections: Applying a Systems Approach to Develop Healthy Pathways from Seed to Table and Beyond See http://projects.isss.org/Main/Sonoma2006Pre-AndPost-ConferenceWorkshops for details | |
20 Saturday, July 15 -- Food Connections Workshop (Continued)
| 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Food workshop see: http://www.food-matters.org | |
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