Metaphorum 2023 Video
Welcome to the video recordings of the Metaphorum 2023 Conference in Manchester, England. The video recordings were made by the College of Exploration video production service as a pro bono contribution to Metaphorum. Peter Tuddenham assisted by Gail Franklin recorded all the sessions that the presenters had agreed to be recorded. There are some recordings that are missing. There were a couple of times when for a variety of reasons they could not be recorded. If you want yours recorded and add here please contact Peter Tuddenham to arrange a recording on zoom.
Day 1: Thursday 8th June 2023
Hall
09.00 – 09.30 Conference registration
09.00 – 09.30 Conference registration
09.30 – 09.40 Conference welcoming address
09.40 – 10.30 Angela Espinosa: Viability through emancipation – learning from VSM practice.
10.30 – 11.10 Robin Asby: Designing Democracy: a systemic blueprint for governing.
11.10 – 11.30 Coffee break
Hall
11.30 – 12.10 John Hicks: Digital accessibility: a key to emancipation and viability for those who need it most, and everyone else too.
12.10 – 12.50 Trevor Hilder: Why VSM/MMF is the “organisational physics” of Sociocracy.
12.10 – 12.50 Trevor Hilder: Why VSM/MMF is the “organisational physics” of Sociocracy.
Room
11.30 – 12.00 Camilo Osejo: Cybernetics and the emergence of cultural politics: a study of the Colombian uprisings of 2021.
12.00 – 12.30 Iffat Sabbir: An application of the. Viable System Model for diagnosing an emotional work environment.
12.30 – 13.00 J. O’Donnell, D. Desmond & M. MacLachlan: Getting giraffes and ostriches to meet in the middle: designing viable safe virtual disability spaces to satisfy future demand.
12.00 – 12.30 Iffat Sabbir: An application of the. Viable System Model for diagnosing an emotional work environment.
12.30 – 13.00 J. O’Donnell, D. Desmond & M. MacLachlan: Getting giraffes and ostriches to meet in the middle: designing viable safe virtual disability spaces to satisfy future demand.
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
Hall
14.00 – 14.40 Peter Tuddenham and Angela Espinosa: ChatGPT and cybernetics: implications for today’s world (workshop).
14.40 – 15.20 Stephen Davies: Accessing the zone of emergence.
14.40 – 15.20 Stephen Davies: Accessing the zone of emergence.
Room
14.00 – 14.30 James Fox: Dis/agreement in participatory organisations: low theory and democratic governance in cybernetics.
14.40 – 15.20. David Cooper: Accelerated community learning (workshop)
14.00 – 14.30 James Fox: Dis/agreement in participatory organisations: low theory and democratic governance in cybernetics.
14.40 – 15.20. David Cooper: Accelerated community learning (workshop)
15.20 – 15.40 Coffee break
Hall
15.40 – 16.20 Martin Pfiffner, Mark Lambertz & Stephen Davies: Current VSM application in the transformation of one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers into a new era of mobility (workshop). No video.
16.20 – 16.50 Plenary panel
16.20 – 16.50 Plenary panel
Room
15.40 – 16.20 Allenna Leonard & Ian Kendrick: Playing a VSM game (workshop).
15.40 – 16.20 Allenna Leonard & Ian Kendrick: Playing a VSM game (workshop).
17.00 ... Later in the bar … (The Fountain House, 14 Albert Square, Manchester, M2 5PF)
Day 2: Friday 9th June
Hall
09.00 – 09.50 Wolfgang Lassl: Landmark ’50 years VSM’ – invitation to an emancipation journey.
09.50 – 10.30 Ayham Fattoum: Configuring systems to be viable in a crisis: the role of intuitive decision-making.
09.50 – 10.30 Ayham Fattoum: Configuring systems to be viable in a crisis: the role of intuitive decision-making.
10.30 – 10.50 Coffee break
Hall
10.50 – 11.30 Ivo Velitchkov. Viability of personal knowledge systems.
11.30 -12.10 Peter Kawalek: Designing data freedom: Stafford Beer’s work applied to civil rights and criminal justice.
12.10 – 12.50 Jose Carlos Mariategui: Uncovering Stafford Beer’s influence in Latin America: a focus on Peru.
11.30 -12.10 Peter Kawalek: Designing data freedom: Stafford Beer’s work applied to civil rights and criminal justice.
12.10 – 12.50 Jose Carlos Mariategui: Uncovering Stafford Beer’s influence in Latin America: a focus on Peru.
Room
10.50 – 11.20 Alison Gurthrie-Wrenn: Leading to learn – learning from leading a systemic intervention in central government, a new practitioner’s perspective.
11.30 – 12.00 Cintia Faria: Challenges with emancipation within integrated care systems.
12.10 – 12.40 Michael Ward: From reductionism to systems thinking: a complementary approach to emancipatory change.
11.30 – 12.00 Cintia Faria: Challenges with emancipation within integrated care systems.
12.10 – 12.40 Michael Ward: From reductionism to systems thinking: a complementary approach to emancipatory change.
12.50 – 13.30 LUNCH
Hall
13.50 – 14.30 Czeslaw Mesjasz: Complex systems management and the traps of sustainability and corporate sustainability as polysemic notions.
14.30 – 15.10 Benjamin Taylor: The Viable System Model and Human System Dynamics through the lens of Barry Oshry’s Organic Systems Model.
14.30 – 15.10 Benjamin Taylor: The Viable System Model and Human System Dynamics through the lens of Barry Oshry’s Organic Systems Model.
Room
13.50 – 14.20 Julie Mackie: Viability and sustainable approach in action: learning from a work-based project to kick-start the design of an anchor institution strategic framework for an NHS trust operating as part of a new anchor network.
14.30 – 15.10 Krishna Balthu: Emancipating the emancipator: refining agency in action research through a holonic modelling.
13.50 – 14.20 Julie Mackie: Viability and sustainable approach in action: learning from a work-based project to kick-start the design of an anchor institution strategic framework for an NHS trust operating as part of a new anchor network.
14.30 – 15.10 Krishna Balthu: Emancipating the emancipator: refining agency in action research through a holonic modelling.
15.10 – 15.20 Coffee break
Hall
15.20 – 16.00 E.B. Bassam & Jose Carlos Mariategui: Introduction and screening of ‘Cybersyn 1973/2023’.
16.10 – 16.45 Plenary panel
16.10 – 16.45 Plenary panel
Room
15.20 – 16.00 Luis Armando Vásquez-Ruiz, Juan Enrique Núñez Ríos & Pedro Pablo Cardoso Castro: Exploring the Viable System Model as an alternative to foster sustainable change.
15.20 – 16.00 Luis Armando Vásquez-Ruiz, Juan Enrique Núñez Ríos & Pedro Pablo Cardoso Castro: Exploring the Viable System Model as an alternative to foster sustainable change.
Day 3: Saturday 10th June
10.30 – 10.50 Coffee break
10.50 – 11.35 Martin Pffifner, Angus Jenkinson, Jose Perez Rios, Steve Brewis, Jon Walker & Angela Espinosa: VSM application insights and questions from our VSM application research group (Metaphorum and CybSoc members).
11.35 – 12.20 John Waters: Applying some cybernetic concepts to planetary viability – a skeleton on which to build.
12.20 – 13.00 Gary Alexander: A new common sense or VSM for all.
11.35 – 12.20 John Waters: Applying some cybernetic concepts to planetary viability – a skeleton on which to build.
12.20 – 13.00 Gary Alexander: A new common sense or VSM for all.
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00 Open space: Walk about and find your tribe – learning from the conference.
15.00 – 16.00 Metaphorum reinvented & conference closure.
16.00 – 16.30 Metaphorum Annual General Meeting.