At the post-meeting dinner after the February Systems Thinking Ontario session, Anna Chekhman mentioned that she was teaching a third-year course on Designing Future Systems at York University. I offered to give a lecture, and we set a date for a few weeks later.
The CSRP Institute 2024 Banathy Conversation validated that the Systems Changes philosophy and theory developed since 2019 is comprehensive for Ph.D. and master’s level audiences. For less academic audiences, the label of “Pacing Changes” may be more appealing. This direction is compatible with the human systems orientation of social systems design, while more sympathetic to the broader scope of living systems (associated with General Systems Theory).
Living systems aren’t static, with change occurring as unfreeze-move-refreeze. Living systems are alive, wayfaring as lines in time in textures (i.e. lines alongside other lines, in weaves). With a long history of presentations with static clipart, or boxes and lines, I’m now motivated to convey ideas with moving images instead. The presentation slides ae posted on the Coevolving Commons.
The recording of the slide presentation and live demonstration is available on Youtube, with an alternate retention on the Internet Archive .
| Video | H.264 MP4 |
| March 4 (55m) |
[20250304_YorkU Ing_PacingChanges_HD_1247kbps.m4v (1280×720 878kbps 508MB) [on the Internet Archive] |
The standalone audio may be less enlightening through the demonstrations, but are also available.
| Audio | |
| March 4 (55m) |
[20250304_YorkU_Ing_PacingChanges.m4a] (126kbps, 88 MB) [on the Internet Archive] |
Here’s the agenda for the talk:
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