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Sunday, May 27 |
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8:30-11:00 |
Plenary: Recursive Reflection on
the Praxis of Cybernetics |
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Pille Bunnell: welcome and opening
remarks |
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Stuart A. Umpleby
Types of More General
Theories and Strategies for Winning Acceptance of them |
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Larry Richards
The Praxis of Thinking:
Deliberate vs. Improvised |
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Philip Lewin
Paradoxes of Cybernetic
Praxis |
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Frank Galuzska
Color as a system: the
cybernetics of the limited palette |
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11:00-1:00 |
ASC Annual General Meeting
Working lunch |
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1:00-3:00 |
Playshops |
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Frank Galuzska
Drawing: Does Creativity
Exist? |
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Joe Miguez and Tricia Pearce
Walking the Labyrinth:
Knowing Recursion |
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Fleurette Sweeney
Singing and Speaking:
Patterns of Social Play |
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3:30-6:00 |
Round Tables by Theme: opening
the conversation
All persons who have
submitted papers give a 3 minute synopsis of their concerns and the
questions they wish illuminated through conversation.
Other participants add to this, and conversations begin. |
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dinner |
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7:30-9:00 |
Keynote (open to the public)
Mary Catherine Bateson
The cybernetics of
activism and aesthetics:
Building on the work of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson |
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9:00-10:30 |
Performance: School for Designing
a Society |
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Monday, May 28 |
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8:30-9:45 |
Keynote:
klaus krippendorff
the cybernetics of
discourse and the discourse of cybernetics |
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Kathleen Forsyhe Award presentation |
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10:00-12:00 |
Round Tables by Theme: continuing
the conversation
Short (10-20 minute)
presentations in each thematic group stimulate further
conversations |
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Recursive Reflection on the Praxis
of Cybernetics |
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Beth Dempster
Being organizationally
ajar… |
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Carol English and Bert McGinnis
Models as Cognitive
Amplifiers |
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Concern for the Social Dimensions
of Cybernetics Praxis |
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Gaetano Giordano
The Child Custody Dispute:
a Conflictive Praxis To Resolve A Conflictive Praxis… |
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Allena Leonard
Contexts of Coercion |
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Stephen Sloan:
My Current Self-Description of Manic-Depression in a System |
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Concern for the Organizational
Dimensions of Cybernetic Praxis |
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Mary Lou Collins
The Tornado Effect: when
Organizational Systems Collide |
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Dennis Sandow
Construction of an economy
of well being: stories from business |
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Alan Stewart
Creating a culture of
conversing : applying cybernetic notions in business
praxis |
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Philip Wrigley
A Systems Theory of
Deliberative Meetings in Organizations and its Implications
… |
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Concern for Implications to
Educational Praxis |
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Lee Gass
The value of cybernetic
models of teaching and learning |
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Mary-Ellen Perley
Drama and Literary
Interpretation: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Praxis |
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1:00-3:00 |
Playshops |
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Brent Cameron
Experiences: Time and the
Observer |
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Monique Giard
Dancing: Distinguishing
Dimensions through Movement |
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Lou Kauffman
Knots and Soap Bubbles:
Sign and Space |
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3:30 - 6:00 |
Plenary: Concern for the Social
Dimensions of Cybernetics Praxis |
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Randall Whitaker
Conversations Of Conflict:
Information Warfare as an Outcome of Being Human |
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Janet D. Fiero
Surviving and Thriving
Ecologically: Exploring Luhmann’s social autopoiesis |
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Antonín Rosicky´
Information And Social
Systems Evolution |
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Judith Lombardi
Behavioral Cybernetics: A
Praxis for Understanding Human Interactions |
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dinner |
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7:30-10:00 |
Evening Conversation: Cybernetic
Reflections on Remaining Human |
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Ely A. Dorsey
The Lie of Race: The
Politics of Evil |
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Tuesday, May 29 |
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8:45- 10:00 |
Plenary: Concern for the
Organizational Dimensions of Cybernetic Praxis |
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Gary Boyd
Qualitative Cybersystemic
Modelling as Praxiscybernetics of Praxis |
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Jason Hu-Ji-Xuan
Self-Organization Behind
Corporate Development in U.S. and China … |
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Randall Whitaker and Ulf Essler
Interactivity In
Electronic Commerce: Shifting the Focus of Business
Modeling |
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refreshment
break |
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10:30 - 12:00 |
Rosalind Armson and Ray Ison
If you're a fish, what can
you know about the water? … |
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Elizabeth White
Praxis: From Wang Labs '
80 To Texas Instruments '98 -a 2nd Order Cybernetics
Journey |
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John Brocklesby
The Cybernetics of Praxis
in Management Science |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch conversation
reconstructing the lost
history of ASC |
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1:00-2:00 |
Plenary: Concern for Implications
to Educational Praxis |
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Jeanette Bopry
Implications of
Reconceptualizing the Term 'Information' for Educational
Technology |
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Sonia MacPherson
Ecological creativity,
refle(x)ive pra(x)is, and "the real world" of education |
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2:00- 4:00 |
Plenary: Comments from the Round
Tables
A representative chosen by
each thematic group makes a 10-15 minute presentation of insights,
concerns and whatever else is pertinent or conduciveto a plenary
discussion.
Kathleen Forsythe: closing
remarks |
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4:00-6:00 |
round tables may
elect to continue their conversations |