structural determinism and the pursuit of conservation and boundaries

Took me some time to read the most recent work of Maturana (co-authored with Ximena Dávila) and their biological-cultural matrix of human existence. I was relating the definitions, old and new, to the process of enabling system innovations. In a recent conversation I was explaining my way of looking to social-cultural principles that creates a [...]

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a process of inquiry to improve our systems design

The reflection around Systems being our creation and therefore part of our judgment invites us to act as participants/system designers rather than spectators triggered by system/environmental fluctuations. Our action in intervening on the system is not a description of ‘what is’, but an inquiry on ‘what is becoming’. Systems are not objective entities simply waiting [...]

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Language: macro framework for action

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you Long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity. Erich Maria Rilke – quote of the month at Community Intelligence     Here [...]

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