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17.11.11

Enabling organizations for thrivability

I am honored to co-chair the symposium “Enabling organizations for thrivability: New perspectives on form, structure and process in favor of human and societal prosperity”. The symposium will be a part of the 21st European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research which will take place in Vienna, on the Campus of the University of Vienna, from 10-13 April 2012.

This symposium invites the participation of creative transdisciplinary thinkers and practitioners from all fields of inquiry and practice. Thinkers, designers, practitioners and researchers with experience in the sciences of life, energy, matter, cognition, cosmology as well as the social sciences and the humanities are welcome. Our wish is to provide a playspace where we can jointly curate the emergence of more sustainable and even thrivable systems.

The objective of this symposium is to contribute to an evolutionary narrative of the next phase of human civlization in a time of global personal awakening. The intention is to cultivate this narrative through the association of the creative efforts of those participating in the symposium as well as with those engaged in similar efforts in other venues.

Important dates:
1. Submission is open until December 23rd 2011
2. Authors / contributors will be notified about their acceptance latest by January 27th 2012
3. The exact date of the symposium will be announced latest in the first week of February 2012
4. Publishing starts right after the conference as a fluid process and finishes in December 2013

The intended format is a one day facilitated workshop, dialogue, conversation, sharing, co-inspiration, and co-creation. This symposium is intended to function as a window from the inside-out of the systems sciences.

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