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| THE ASC EXECUTIVE BOARD |
Article 6 of the ASC Constitution provides for a set of officers comprising the ASC Executive Board as follows:
"The Executive Board shall consist of the President as chairman, The President-Elect -(when he exists), the immediate Past President, the Elected Vice-President, the Secretary, the Treasurer and may include other Vice Presidents with special responsibilities (e.g. publication) or to assure 'regional representation. All members of the Executive Board shall be elected from the voting members of the Society for a three year term."
The current ASC Executive Board was elected in 2008 and took office effective January 2009.
Your current ASC Executive Board members are listed below.
| THE ASC OMBUDSMAN |
Article 7 of the ASC Constitution provides for a pair of Ombudspersons as follows:
"The office of the Ombudsman shall consist of two individuals who are recognized for their ability to evaluate decisions made by the society's organs and relate them to membership interests and to the purposes of the Society..."
Your current Ombudspersons are listed below.
| THE ASC TRUSTEES |
Article 5 of the ASC Constitution provides for a set of Trustees as follows:
"Between three and twelve individuals who are recognized for their ability to support and lend guidance to the Society shall constitute the Trustees of the Society. ...Trustees shall advise the President and the Executive Board in the implementation of Policy and have the right to veto decisions by the President and by the Executive Board ..."
The current ASC Trustees were elected and took office in 2009.
Your current Trustees are listed on the ASC Trustees Page.
| 'JOB DESCRIPTIONS' FOR ASC OFFICERS |
The ASC Constitution describes the functions and responsibilities of ASC officer positions in very general terms. The specific duties and responsibilities of ASC officers are subject to change and evolution over time.
The ASC Officer Position Descriptions webpage summarizes the duties and responsibilities of certain ASC officer positions as specified at the current time. The positions described are the core officer posts cited in the ASC Constitution.
NOTE: These position descriptions are posted as general background information for the interested reader. Specific duties and responsibilities are subject to changes as determined by the Executive Board.
| YOUR CURRENT ASC OFFICERS |
PRESIDENT
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Ranulph Glanville has a particular interest in circular systems and the consequences of taking them seriously. As a result, he has developed a particular enjoyment of the Black Box as a model that requires the participation of the observer in building descriptions of the behaviour of systems, leading to an understanding of knowing as based on profound ignorance. He has developed a Theory of Objects - those things about which we can (as a result of their self-referential qualities) behave as if we see the same thing when each observer observes differently, from which he developed a temporal logic. His work is largely philosophical in intent, but has a deep connection with design and research. |
VICE
PRESIDENT
Elizabeth Simpson
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Elizabeth has done interpersonal and intra-group dynamic work since 1995 and is certified in Victim-Offender Reconciliation, Circle Mediation, and Family Group Processing. She is trained in a variety of decision-making modes, including Formal Consensus, Dynamic Governance (sociocracy) and Restorative Justice Principles. She has assisted groups with retreats, visioning, Board trainings, and uses a variety of creative strategies to draw on the resources of groups to find answers to the issues at hand. Elizabeth is an anti-racism activist who has worked with groups to address how privilege in organizations affects members' ability to work together. She has also worked with groups around the dynamics of class and gender. In addition to her work with do good, Elizabeth also serves as Peer Mediation Coordinator at Urbana (Illinois) Middle School and is facilitating an Inter-group Dialogue on Race & Ethnicity at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. |
SECRETARY
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Thomas Fischer comes originally from Germany and is now living in Hong Kong where he is working as an Assistant Professor in Product and Industrial Design at the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He holds a PhD in Education from the University of Kassel in Germany and one in Architecture and Design from RMIT University in Australia. Thomas is equally interested in human creativity as he is in machine logic and he studies both, preferably in some combination. Much of his work is dedicated to design education, creativity in Eastern and Western culture, geometry rationalization, the limitations of methods and tools in designing and the theory of computer-aided architectural design. |
TREASURER
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The position of ASC Treasurer is currently vacant, pending action to fill the post. In the mean time, Arek Fressadi has agreed to serve as Treasurer pro tem . |
VICE
PRESIDENT
For Membership
Phillip Guddemi
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Phillip Guddemi is a scholar of Gregory Bateson's work living in Sacramento, California. He is Managing Editor of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing. |
PRESIDENT
for Electronic Publications
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ASC's 'VPEP' holds a BA in anthropology and psychology, a BSc and MSc in computer science, and a PhD in informatics from Umeå Universitet (Sweden). He has focused his scholarship upon cognition, epistemology, semiotics, and their relationships to human interactivity. Randy is also the creator and steward of The Observer Web -- the largest Internet resource on autopoiesis and enaction. He currrently works as a senior human factors engineer specializing in cognitive analyses of work processes and work-centered design. |
OMBUDSMAN
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Philip Lewin is an independent scholar living in Eugene, Oregon. His primary interest is in epistemology, that is, in the general question of how we make sense of and function within the world while maintaining a self-legitimating sanity. His involvement with ASC grew out of his graduate work in the late 1970s. Among his primary influences at that time were studies on Jean Piaget with Ernst von Glasersfeld, summer courses with Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on biological epistemology, and the revelation that was his first reading of Gregory Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind. These influences continue. |
PRESIDENT
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Louis Kauffman is a topologist working in knot theory and its relationships with statistical mechanics, quantum theory, algebra, combinatorics and foundations. |
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