<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kenneth McLeod</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au">kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:43 AM<br>Subject: UPDATE: Complexity, Emergence and Systemic Change<br>To: <a href="mailto:kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au">kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au</a><br><br><br>
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<blockquote>It seems we have several people interested in
doing the Santa Fe Institute's <b>Introduction to
Complexity</b> free online course and participating in
our own <b>face-to-face seminars</b> to explore the
content in the context of social and cultural change in
the Anthropocene Transition.<br>
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Here is the link for the course: <a href="https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/74-introduction-to-complexity-spring-2017" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr>complexityexplorer.org/<wbr>courses/74-introduction-to-<wbr>complexity-spring-2017</a><br>
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The course starts on 10th April and runs for 11 weeks,
though you can extend it over a longer period if you wish
(the course materials remain on line for some time to
allow participants to proceed at their own pace). You
can, of course, cherry-pick the course by doing just the
units that interest you and skimming over the others.<br>
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Suggested dates for our own seminars are:<br>
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<li><b>Monday 8th May</b><b><br>
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<li><b>Monday 5th June</b></li>
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<li><b>Monday 3rd July</b></li>
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All at 6pm at the Business School. At this stage these
dates are provisional. If you want to participate but one
or more of these dates are impossible for you, please let
me know right away. At our third seminar we'll decide on
the next step.<br>
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<font color="#cc0000" size="+2"><b>ACTION REQUIRED:</b></font>
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<li><b><font size="+1">If you have already enrolled for
the Santa Fe course or plan to do so, please let
me know now.</font></b></li>
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<li><b><font size="+1">Check the proposed dates for our
seminars and confirm that you are available. If
some dates don't suit some I'll run an online poll
to find the best fit.</font></b></li>
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<font size="+1"><b>Advance notice:</b></font> Next year
the Macquarie University Big History Institute is planning
a major conference on Complexity. Watch for further
updates.<br>
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Below is the first email about this proposal for your
reference. Also attached is Thomas Homer Dixon's paper in
case you missed it the first time and sociologist Brian
Castellani's excellent overview. Here's Castellani's
complexity map to induce you to read the article!<br>
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<blockquote>Cheers, Ken<br>
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Dear ATP participants,<br>
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At one of our ATP forums last year <b>Annie Kia</b> from
the Lock the Gate Alliance explained how LTG's brilliantly
successful community engagement strategy was informed by
complexity theory. Following the forum a number of
participants raised the idea of an on-going inquiry into
complexity and social/cultural change. This idea has been
raised with me on several occasions since. <br>
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It seems to me that for an inquiry of this kind to be useful
the participants would need at least a basic shared
understanding of some of the key concepts in complexity
science. Some ATP participants are very familiar with this
field of scholarship. Others have only the most general
understanding.<br>
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<b><font color="#cc0000">So here's an idea on which I'd like
your feedback...</font></b><br>
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The Santa Fe Institute in the USA is a world leader in
complexity science research and education. The institute
runs an extensive education program from undergraduate to
professional development levels. One of its most popular
online courses (MOOCs) is <b>Introduction to Complexity</b>.
<blockquote><font size="-1"><b><i>In this popular
introductory course, you'll learn about the tools
used by scientists to understand complex systems.
The topics you'll learn about include dynamics,
chaos, fractals, information theory,
self-organization, agent-based modeling, and
networks. You’ll also get a sense of how these
topics fit together to help explain how complexity
arises and evolves in nature, society, and
technology. There are no prerequisites. You don't
need a science or maths background to take this
introductory course; it simply requires an interest
in the field and the willingness to participate in a
hands-on approach to the subject.</i></b> (From the
SFI website)</font><br>
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The next offering of this free course is from <b>10th April
to 30 June</b> and is run by <b>Professor Melanie
Mitchell</b>, author of <i>Complexity: A Guided Tour</i>
(2009).<br>
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You can see Professor Mitchell's introduction to the course
here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKzXvxZN-OE&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=XKzXvxZN-OE&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
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<b><font color="#cc0000">Do we have any ATP participants
interested in enrolling in this course and meeting a few
times while it is running to review the content and
discuss its relevance within the context of the
Anthropocene Transition?</font></b><br>
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After the completion of the course these participants might
form the core of an inquiry group to further explore the
implications of complexity theory for approaches to
social/cultural transformation.<br>
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</dfn>If you're interested in this subject I'm sure you'll
find much of value in the attached talk by Canadian
political scientist <b>Thomas Homer Dixon</b>.<br>
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I'll look forward to receiving your thoughts on this or any
similar suggestions.<br>
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Best wishes, Ken<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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