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_Abstract__Preliminary abstract_
Notes - Dynamic Complexity and Resilience Thesis/ISR-G (view source)
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Preliminary title: __Creating collective resilience, empowerment, and social innovation in higher education through immersive, community-based learning experiences and an integrated understanding of all the sciences__
<blockquote>Modern science has reached a paradoxical position, in which the international community has acquired overwhelming amounts of knowledge by the means of ever-increasing specialization. However, those insights, oftentimes separated by discipline, leave us with little understanding to fight our current time’s structural disconnects (Scharmer 2013). We argue that life in the 21st century is one of dynamic complexity that asks for non-linear and organic thinking to engage in sustainable and effective problem-solving efforts, often called sustainable development (Holling 2001). At Olin College of Engineering, the disruption caused by the 2020 pandemic created a moment of campus-wide reflection that lead to an independently organized micro-campus of 15 students at a family-owned off-grid permaculture farm in North Carolina. This social enterprise showed a need for an integrated understanding of science and served as evidence that immersion into nature, sustainable living, and an intentional community can lead to a better understanding of our ecosystems and social-ecological systems. We see an opportunity in higher education to leverage our collective ability to create change and initiate social innovation by teaching an integrated, transdisciplinary understanding of science and opening up spaces and time for students to act upon emerging opportunities to contribute to and scale-up social innovation.</blockquote>[^Scharmer2013]<sup>,</sup>[^Holling2001]
For more thoughts and the introduction, please follow this link to the [[Thesis outline - resilience and dynamic complexity]].
# Notes
I have a disposition that human development needs x - I'm taking the disposition that a world in the 21st century needs
A holistic model of reality - the nature of the whole is that you will be complete your description
you need a science
You need a language
you need spirituality
you need
Create a metaphor to lead through different web-nodes
fields/relationships
reductionist sciences - doesn't help you with complexity but to design a wedge
- living systems diagram, five web nodes, living systems at the center
- ontology - the nature of something
- with your attention giving life to a living system
- requires
- practices for social innovation co-existence
engineering for living for a thriving existence
engineering education for interconnected living/being
##Apr 16th 2021
The nature of a field doesn’t last - it’s always changing
Social field are vibratory - energy field
Kurt lewin - group dynamics
Diversity - different states of being
A holistic science would be itself be holistic in learning it - all you need to Do, take the principles of DC -
Patterns that education has are commensurate with the phenomena
openness in learning (emphasizing questions not assertions)
DC - recursion , attention to relationships
# The shift in our ontological understanding of nature
- energy fields
## 5. Questions and knots to untangle for a change
How can we transform the scientific landscape into a trans-disciplinary, co-creative project?</br>
What kind of internet interface do we need to support co-creation with transparency, dialectic, peer-assement, and accessibility?</br>
How can we transform educational institutions into places that create communities and drive social innovation beyond the 4-year enrollment?
# Recommendations for higher Ed institutions
- create a valid and accessible feedback loop. For instance, keep a keyboard and mail box in the dining hall where students can input any form of feedback. Make it visible to students.
- transparency: publish all the money flows within and outward from the institution. The system can only be aware of itself when it can see itself.
- allow a platform for political dialogue to fight the consensus that politics and policies are far away from us.
- allow a collective co-creative project. Imagine an Olin Wikipedia where all insights from courses and research are saved. You have any question about a project or where to find something on campus? You know where to search! Anyone can add and edit.
# Living and co-creating in community
- autopoiesis (from Greek αὐτo- (auto-) 'self', and ποίησις (poiesis) 'creation, production') refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself by creating its own parts and eventually further components.
- Collective intelligence - Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making.
- Tektology is a term used by Alexander Bogdanov to describe a discipline that consisted of unifying all social, biological and physical sciences by considering them as systems of relationships and by seeking the organizational principles that underlie all systems.
- teleological - relating to or involving the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause by which they arise.
- Vitalism is the belief that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things
- vitalist-teleological - in the 1950s competing view to a mechanistic-causal philosophy around life/systems
- pantheism - a doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God
