Arisitidis a Karaletsou C and Tsoukala K Socio Environmental Metamorphoses Chalkidikik Greece 11 14 July 1992, 1992
This paper applies systems management and man-environment approaches to redefine urban planning a... more This paper applies systems management and man-environment approaches to redefine urban planning and design as the management of ecological, physiological and psychological health. It addresses consistency and variability in human needs, motivations, preference and emotional response. It develops planning and design approaches, theories and models responsive to variable needs and perceptions. This paper presents a process for determining strategies for urbanization and affordable housing delivery. It addresses global apartheid, and unique opportunities for metamorphosis in the emerging South Africa, as it implements paradigmatic cultural change through evolving equilibrium structures. It applies metamodeling and metabolic planning and design theories, to address rapid urbanization and community-building, discover implementation roadblocks and gaps, and identify "change triggers". It presents consensus-building, conflict-resolution delivery models designed for South Africa's decision-making environments, developed from a systems management and community-participation approach. These models include an Universal Innovation-Intervention Delivery Model; evolutions to deliver appropriate decision-making environments, delivery structures and development patterns: and evolutions for retrofitting urban subcomponents. This paper benefits from case-study testing of one subcomponent model, the Formal-Informal Community Interface Model, to determine implementability in the emerging South Africa; and to identify implementation roadblocks, and potential "change triggers". It addresses applicability of models to other rapidly changing first- and third-world countries.
This study is intended to analyze and describe the relationship between the quality of spirituali... more This study is intended to analyze and describe the relationship between the quality of spirituality and the quality of sustainability through the study of residential community developments in the real estate sector. Based on integral theories, this study explores three communities globally and three communities in Thailand. According to the data, gained mainly from in-depth interviews, questionnaires and observation, the findings show that an integral transformation towards a higher degree of sustainability has occurred, which embraces a spiritual, behavioral, cultural, social and environmental dimension. The findings also show that spiritual transformation has been the primary factor enabling this occurrence. Accordingly, this study offers suggestions for facilitating a transformation towards integral sustainability.
Explores proposed global network of Sustainable Living & Growing Centers (SLGC) as regional Energ... more Explores proposed global network of Sustainable Living & Growing Centers (SLGC) as regional EnergyWaterFoodNexus (EWFN) Management Catalysts and as seeds for growing resource-effective networks of self-reliant, thriving communities. Each SLGC is a regional production-teaching-research-demonstration center built on an ECSIA® technology-based food production platform. In each regional SLGC, people learn to thrive by collaborating with their local complex system. The pilot SLGC -- Baltimore Urban Farmstead -- is being launched as a production- education-research-demonstration center for learning-by-doing how to live within regional complex adaptive systems; and for generating, applying, managing, and diffusing knowledge needed to transform dysfunctional ecological and social landscapes into fully-functional complex eco-social-economic systems. In this pilot SLGC people will learn to live in systems and to make whole-system decisions, in rural and urban contexts, that empower communi...
Takes a Big History view of complexity, informatics and cybernetics. Through this lens, presents ... more Takes a Big History view of complexity, informatics and cybernetics. Through this lens, presents Big Science, complex adaptive systems (CAS), CAS operational modes, and current massive and escalating CAS change as indicators of emergence and transformation. Calls for complex adaptive system management and complex system co-design as collaboration among diverse human and non-human intelligences, from ecological to digital. Speaks to emerging potentials for the sciences of complexity, informatics and cybernetics in this unique time in Big History as humanity shifts from opaque decisions and hierarchical messaging to transparent network conversations and co-design with complexity.
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015
This book’s major contribution to applying scientific knowledge to address complex problems is ti... more This book’s major contribution to applying scientific knowledge to address complex problems is timely, as these problems are proliferating due in part to a history of reductive science, and because scientific thinking is changing rapidly. I appreciate the book’s motivating question: BHow can academic research enhance its contribution to addressing widespread poverty, global climate change, organized crime, escalating health care costs or the myriad of other major problems facing human society.^ I support the author’s focus on interdisciplinary thinking and her concern that interdisciplinary research remains at academic margins because it lacks substantial, wellestablished, internationally accepted methodology. I agree with her expressed need for methodological soundness, greater interaction among diverse groups, and managing of unknowns to help realize the potential of interdisciplinary research. The book proposes a framework grounded in theory, relevant research, broad exchange of ideas, and collection and evaluation of methodologies. It makes four arguments: a specific focus is required; research embracing multiple methods constitutes a style called integrative applied research; a new discipline, Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S), can be an effective way to document and transmit integrative applied research concepts and methods; and given that today’s complex problems require urgent attention, the process should be accelerated through a Big Science-type project of the scale and power of the Human Genome Project. The book seeks to propose a structure for the I2S discipline, plant the seed for an I2S Development Drive as a new Big Science-type project to establish I2S, and start a worldwide discussion about I2S and the I2S Development Drive. This review is informed by my 40+-year evolving focus on systems, general systems theory, systems science, complexity science, and design science. In the review that follows, I first discuss each of the book’s four arguments in relation to object-, system-, and meta-levels of systems engagement. Agreeing strongly that today’s complex problems require urgent attention, I then discuss the system-level at which the challenge can best be addressed, as well as the nature and urgency of the challenge, from a complexity science perspective. Argument #1, TAKING A SPECIFIC FOCUS, targets research involving experts from multiple disciplines investigating common complex real-world social and environmental problems. By focusing on problems, this argument engages systems at the objectand system-level, in ways that help practitioners make more integrated and implementationinformed decisions. I see this argument focusing on symptomatic problems of complex systems whose functionality has been degraded, but not the meta-level engagement needed to re-empower complex systems to fully regenerate, co-adapt, and complexify. Argument #2, DEFINING A NEW RESEARCH STYLE; INTEGRATIVE APPLIED RESEARCH, seeks to identify unknowns, embrace multiple types of knowledge, and appreciate diverse methodologies. This focus helps diverse disciplines broaden their perceptions of problems, encourages processes to have methodological flexibility, and helps integrate diverse
Arisitidis a Karaletsou C and Tsoukala K Socio Environmental Metamorphoses Chalkidikik Greece 11 14 July 1992, 1992
This paper applies systems management and man-environment approaches to redefine urban planning a... more This paper applies systems management and man-environment approaches to redefine urban planning and design as the management of ecological, physiological and psychological health. It addresses consistency and variability in human needs, motivations, preference and emotional response. It develops planning and design approaches, theories and models responsive to variable needs and perceptions. This paper presents a process for determining strategies for urbanization and affordable housing delivery. It addresses global apartheid, and unique opportunities for metamorphosis in the emerging South Africa, as it implements paradigmatic cultural change through evolving equilibrium structures. It applies metamodeling and metabolic planning and design theories, to address rapid urbanization and community-building, discover implementation roadblocks and gaps, and identify "change triggers". It presents consensus-building, conflict-resolution delivery models designed for South Africa's decision-making environments, developed from a systems management and community-participation approach. These models include an Universal Innovation-Intervention Delivery Model; evolutions to deliver appropriate decision-making environments, delivery structures and development patterns: and evolutions for retrofitting urban subcomponents. This paper benefits from case-study testing of one subcomponent model, the Formal-Informal Community Interface Model, to determine implementability in the emerging South Africa; and to identify implementation roadblocks, and potential "change triggers". It addresses applicability of models to other rapidly changing first- and third-world countries.
This study is intended to analyze and describe the relationship between the quality of spirituali... more This study is intended to analyze and describe the relationship between the quality of spirituality and the quality of sustainability through the study of residential community developments in the real estate sector. Based on integral theories, this study explores three communities globally and three communities in Thailand. According to the data, gained mainly from in-depth interviews, questionnaires and observation, the findings show that an integral transformation towards a higher degree of sustainability has occurred, which embraces a spiritual, behavioral, cultural, social and environmental dimension. The findings also show that spiritual transformation has been the primary factor enabling this occurrence. Accordingly, this study offers suggestions for facilitating a transformation towards integral sustainability.
Explores proposed global network of Sustainable Living & Growing Centers (SLGC) as regional Energ... more Explores proposed global network of Sustainable Living & Growing Centers (SLGC) as regional EnergyWaterFoodNexus (EWFN) Management Catalysts and as seeds for growing resource-effective networks of self-reliant, thriving communities. Each SLGC is a regional production-teaching-research-demonstration center built on an ECSIA® technology-based food production platform. In each regional SLGC, people learn to thrive by collaborating with their local complex system. The pilot SLGC -- Baltimore Urban Farmstead -- is being launched as a production- education-research-demonstration center for learning-by-doing how to live within regional complex adaptive systems; and for generating, applying, managing, and diffusing knowledge needed to transform dysfunctional ecological and social landscapes into fully-functional complex eco-social-economic systems. In this pilot SLGC people will learn to live in systems and to make whole-system decisions, in rural and urban contexts, that empower communi...
Takes a Big History view of complexity, informatics and cybernetics. Through this lens, presents ... more Takes a Big History view of complexity, informatics and cybernetics. Through this lens, presents Big Science, complex adaptive systems (CAS), CAS operational modes, and current massive and escalating CAS change as indicators of emergence and transformation. Calls for complex adaptive system management and complex system co-design as collaboration among diverse human and non-human intelligences, from ecological to digital. Speaks to emerging potentials for the sciences of complexity, informatics and cybernetics in this unique time in Big History as humanity shifts from opaque decisions and hierarchical messaging to transparent network conversations and co-design with complexity.
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2015
This book’s major contribution to applying scientific knowledge to address complex problems is ti... more This book’s major contribution to applying scientific knowledge to address complex problems is timely, as these problems are proliferating due in part to a history of reductive science, and because scientific thinking is changing rapidly. I appreciate the book’s motivating question: BHow can academic research enhance its contribution to addressing widespread poverty, global climate change, organized crime, escalating health care costs or the myriad of other major problems facing human society.^ I support the author’s focus on interdisciplinary thinking and her concern that interdisciplinary research remains at academic margins because it lacks substantial, wellestablished, internationally accepted methodology. I agree with her expressed need for methodological soundness, greater interaction among diverse groups, and managing of unknowns to help realize the potential of interdisciplinary research. The book proposes a framework grounded in theory, relevant research, broad exchange of ideas, and collection and evaluation of methodologies. It makes four arguments: a specific focus is required; research embracing multiple methods constitutes a style called integrative applied research; a new discipline, Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S), can be an effective way to document and transmit integrative applied research concepts and methods; and given that today’s complex problems require urgent attention, the process should be accelerated through a Big Science-type project of the scale and power of the Human Genome Project. The book seeks to propose a structure for the I2S discipline, plant the seed for an I2S Development Drive as a new Big Science-type project to establish I2S, and start a worldwide discussion about I2S and the I2S Development Drive. This review is informed by my 40+-year evolving focus on systems, general systems theory, systems science, complexity science, and design science. In the review that follows, I first discuss each of the book’s four arguments in relation to object-, system-, and meta-levels of systems engagement. Agreeing strongly that today’s complex problems require urgent attention, I then discuss the system-level at which the challenge can best be addressed, as well as the nature and urgency of the challenge, from a complexity science perspective. Argument #1, TAKING A SPECIFIC FOCUS, targets research involving experts from multiple disciplines investigating common complex real-world social and environmental problems. By focusing on problems, this argument engages systems at the objectand system-level, in ways that help practitioners make more integrated and implementationinformed decisions. I see this argument focusing on symptomatic problems of complex systems whose functionality has been degraded, but not the meta-level engagement needed to re-empower complex systems to fully regenerate, co-adapt, and complexify. Argument #2, DEFINING A NEW RESEARCH STYLE; INTEGRATIVE APPLIED RESEARCH, seeks to identify unknowns, embrace multiple types of knowledge, and appreciate diverse methodologies. This focus helps diverse disciplines broaden their perceptions of problems, encourages processes to have methodological flexibility, and helps integrate diverse
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