<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Great idea Daniel</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">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...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Tracking down such refs and mapping the gems from them is exactly the kind of thing I imagine myself doing over summer.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I've now saved those links to my reference list : )</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">If anyone can recommend a good primer or iconic text in self-org systems from the sciences (or otherwise) I'd appreciate your recommendation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#663300" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><i>Cocreation Consultant & CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator</i></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a> | <a href="http://CoCreateADL.com" target="_blank">CoCreateADL.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">0405 447 829</font><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> | </font></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">@</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" target="_blank">jsbaxter_</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i>Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about <b>City Grill</b>!</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i>Summary and links: <a href="http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/" target="_blank">cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/</a></i></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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Example: stigmergy<br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=define+stigmergy" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=define+stigmergy</a><br>
<b>Stigmergy</b> 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.<br>
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More details<br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/Stigmergy.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/StigmergyAndSelf.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/StigmergyAndSelf.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/FourPrinciples.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/FourPrinciples.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/IntertwinedPrinciples.html" target="_blank">http://www.evolutionofcomputing.org/Multicellular/IntertwinedPrinciples.html</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Hello facilitators of self
organisation</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Let's take a moment to consider
self organisation, as 'field' or 'practice'.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I am scoping a summer project at
the moment (in the southern hemisphere!).</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">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' <i>is</i> (indeed,
if it is anything at all).</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">It might be worthwhile
formalising this, through a focused research project, and
sharing the results in a report or the like.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Possible focus questions that
come to mind for me are</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- what does someone need to know
to say "I do self organisation"?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- what would someone need to know
to be an 'expert' in self org?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Would appreciate your
perspective, as a practitioner-facilitator-fellow wave rider:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">What (if anything) do you think
deserves to be done?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Who should be involved in doing
it?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Thank you
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