[OSList] Fwd: Summer research project idea: 'self organisation'

Peggy Holman via OSList oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Mon Dec 1 10:33:39 PST 2014 

A good place to start for sure Harrison! When I was working on the chapter on complexity for the upcoming book on Dialogic Organization Development, I went through the bibliographies of people who work with complexity and organizations (Meg Wheatley, Ralph Stacey, Harrison Owen, Uri Merry, Frances Westley). The books you reference appeared in all of them.

A couple others: Mitchell Waldrop’s Complexity, which is a great history of the birth of the Sante Fe Institute. Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is also widely referenced. He doesn’t talk about self-organization but he sure describes it!

Interestingly, Gregory Bateson was also widely read. 

Peggy



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>> On Nov 29, 2014, at 7:46 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
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>> John – the literature on self organization is massive, and to be honest a number of years have passed since I felt myself to be marginally informed. That said, there are three books that I found to be most helpful, and all – to the best of my knowledge – are still in print. In historical order they are: “Order out of Chaos,” Ilya Prigogine, “Chaos,”  James Gleick, and “At home in the Universe” Stuart Kauffmann. I would suggest starting with “Chaos” – which is the best written and pulls together lots of wonderful strands.
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>> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 10:49 PM
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>> Great idea Daniel
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>> Stigmergy I am familiar with (from Mark et al from Collabforge in Melbourne - did his PhD on stigmergy and collaboration! Public book in the works now), but I know there is much more there.
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>> The main references to self organisation in the sciences I have come across so far, I have not been able to track down due to being out of print and the like...
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>> Tracking down such refs and mapping the gems from them is exactly the kind of thing I imagine myself doing over summer.
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>> I've now saved those links to my reference list : )
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>> If anyone can recommend a good primer or iconic text in self-org systems from the sciences (or otherwise) I'd appreciate your recommendation.
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>> Cheers
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>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
>> There are many well-established words that are used to more precisely discuss self "organization" in the biological and social sciences. I wonder if actively using some of these well-defined words might be helpful in the discussion.
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>> Example: stigmergy
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=define+stigmergy <https://www.google.com/search?q=define+stigmergy>
>> Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.
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>> http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html <http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html>
>> http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/StigmergyAndSelf.html <http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/StigmergyAndSelf.html>
>> http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/FourPrinciples.html <http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/FourPrinciples.html>
>> http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/IntertwinedPrinciples.html <http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/IntertwinedPrinciples.html>
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>> Daniel
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>> On 11/26/14 8:25 PM, John Baxter via OSList wrote:
>>> Hello facilitators of self organisation
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>>> Let's take a moment to consider self organisation, as 'field' or 'practice'.
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>>> I am scoping a summer project at the moment (in the southern hemisphere!).
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>>> I have been reading and learning all I can about self org.  There is less than I expected at the heart of self org practice, but much more than I realised in intersecting fields (e.g. in governance, democracy, community organising, management, change, systems...).  There are also unanswered Qs about what 'self org' is (indeed, if it is anything at all).
>>>  
>>> It might be worthwhile formalising this, through a focused research project, and sharing the results in a report or the like.
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>>> Possible focus questions that come to mind for me are
>>> - what does someone need to know to say "I do self organisation"?
>>> - what would someone need to know to be an 'expert' in self org?
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>>> Would appreciate your perspective, as a practitioner-facilitator-fellow wave rider:
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>>> What (if anything) do you think deserves to be done?
>>> Who should be involved in doing it?
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>>> ​Thank you for contributing to the quest!
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