Category Archives: WOSC 16th Congress -WOSC 2014- Ibague, Colombia
Humberto Maturana, Ximena Davila y Fernando Flores at WOSC 2014
Como ya informamos en un mensaje anterior el lanzamiento de WOSC 2014 para la comunidad Latinoamericana tuvo lugar en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá el 14 de octubre pasado.
Ahora la Universidad Nacional ha subido el video de este evento en YouTube. El enlace de este video en Español es el siguiente:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8smqjpMAytXd7RTtWGz60PUCTCwL70TY
The above is the YouTube link to video in Spanish with the recording of WOSC 2014 launching at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia the 14th of October, 2014.
A view of the plenary sessions at WOSC 2014
The plenary sessions at WOSC 2014 offered varied reflexions of systems thinking and cybernetics. Entrepreneurship, the Cybersyn project and big data, disruptions and reparation of social issues in the light of the Viable System Model, wicked problems, self-organisation, requisite variety, Luhmann’s autopoiesis, second order cybernetics and technology learning, the cybernetics of policy-processes and zero-time cybernetics were topics discussed in these plenaries. The attached document offers a reflection and their summary. They offer much to think about. Reflexions about WOSC 2014 (2)
Aditionally first WOSC 2014 keynote speakers videos are freeely published.
| The wicked problems remain wicked: has the craft and science of transforming whole systems moved forward, and how could we do better? | Requisite Variety, Autopoiesis, and Self-organization | Autopoiesiss |
WOSC Congress 2014 is concluded
WOSC 2014 is now concluded
We want to highlight:
Attendees of 26 countries from around the word gathered in Ibague, Colombia.
10 keynote speakers presented current issues and future perspectives on cybernetics and system thinking.
| Fernando Flores | Eden Medina | Geoff Mulgan | Carlos Gershenson | Allenna Leonard |
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| Clas-Otto Wene | Raúl Espejo | Dario Rodriguez | Humberto Maturana | Ximena Dávila |
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Professor Dr. Humberto Maturana was distinguished with WOSC’s Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal
Participants contributed papers to 9 themes
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You may find more details on the Congress homepage wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co.
Keynote Abstracts for WOSC 2014
Preparations for WOSC 2014 are in full progress. Abstracts of presentations by keynote speakers are in the following attachment:
Abstracts of Plenaries WOSC 2014
Comments are most welcome!
Abstract sumissions to WOSC 2014
The website below gives you deadlines and registration procedures. You can submit an abstract, selecting one or more of your preferences among 15 themes. Please, submit your abstract as soon as possible and no later than 31st March.
The website address is: http://wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co/
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WOSC 2014
WOSC members have been discussing plans for WOSC 2014 over the past few months. The Congress’s proposed name is:
Our self-organising world: from disruption to reparation:
Systems and cybernetics applied to technology, design, governance and power.
It is being organised by the Universidad de Ibague, Colombia
Dates: October 15th to 17th 2014
For details read: