Place, Proximity, Localism and Systems Change
We instinctively reach for shorthand—place, localism, proximity—whenever we sense that a web of relationships is unusually vivid or alive. Yet these words are only proxies for something deeper: the relationality that allow a system to “do” itself—to maintain, repair its parts, and reinvent its own choreography…….“
Transient Hypofrontality is a state of consciousness which enables rapid transformation in competent systems. High performance, learn fast , superpositioning for systems powered by change. Does evolution have a purpose? Karma = action.
At RSD12, we presented a similar line of thinking. SOFA aimed to explore the nature of systems-oriented facilitation. As experienced professionals and students of systems-oriented design (ExecSOD), our aim was to shape places and structures to make large facilitation something one could practice.
SOFA (Presentation - with link in title page) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KJ6fqwoA6V_nyfuMzaFmwh1bSoIJWHp7/view
Verksted (Paper at RSD11 may be updated based on our respective master theses)
https://rsdsymposium.org/verksted-a-networked-space-for-collaborative-sense-maki