Network Earth
The world is a complicated place. Our planet is made up of millions of networks from microscopic ecosystems to global migration. How can we ever hope to unde...See it on Scoop.it, via networks and...
View ArticleFormer Occupiers Are Building a Network for Liberation | Civicist
The group Movement Netlab says Liberation.Network, which is being built on the open-source Activist Network Platform, will solve a big problem in decentralized movements: group-to-group...
View ArticleBrief for GSDR - Refugee Camps as a Spatial Phenomenon of Self-Organization...
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View ArticleGoing Slow and Going Farther: Collective Impact and Building Networks for...
A recent report out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State University highlights a number of food systems change efforts that have adopted a collective impact approach. Two of these are i…See...
View ArticleFor Vulnerable Teenagers, a Web of Support
poverty should be defined as a condition of isolation, not just a lack of money. “Relationships are the key things that bring about real changes,”See it on Scoop.it, via networks and network weaving
View ArticleResearchers find the tipping point between resilience and collapse in complex...
Using statistical physics, network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his colleagues have developed the first-ever tool to identify whether systems—be they technological, ecological, or biologica…See...
View ArticleThe REAL Neuroscience of Creativity
So yea, you know how the left brain is really realistic, analytical, practical, organized, and logical, and thSee it on Scoop.it, via networks and network weaving
View ArticleWhy Events Don't Build Communities & Networks
Until conveners and organizers discover what it means to design gatherings for building communities and networks, they naively believe speaker or entertainment based events can do so. They don't...
View ArticleFrom Consumerism to Relationships
Lots of good stuff in here about network mindset." "This is the presentation I gave at GEC2016 in Medellín, Colombia. Its major theme is trust, particularly Design from Trust.See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleDo jobs run in families?
How much of our choice of profession depends on who our parents are? Parents pass on their genes, set an example, provide opportunities, and give advice to either aim for or steer clear of their own...
View ArticleDesign as Participation
The hypothesis is that most designers that are deliberately working with complex adaptive systems cannot help but be humbled by them. Maybe those who really design systems-interacting-with-systems...
View ArticleThe Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare (by Joachim P....
This visionary reframing of health and healthcare uses a complexity science approach to building healthcare systems that are accessible, effective, and prepared for change and challenges. Its holistic...
View ArticleKnowing the Network and Knitting the Network
Lack of outside information, and dense cohesion within the network, removes all possibility for new ideas and innovations. We see this in isolated rural communities that are resistant to change, or…See...
View ArticleHow Do You Change Voters’ Minds? Have a Conversation
Going door to door, a Los Angeles-based activist group tries to reduce prejudice against transgender people. A new study finds that it works.See it on Scoop.it, via networks and network weaving
View ArticleNuit debout protesters occupy French cities in revolutionary call for change
For more than a week, vast nocturnal gatherings have spread across France in a citizen-led movement that has rattled the governmentSee it on Scoop.it, via networks and network weaving
View ArticleDurably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing
It's about building relationships! Existing research depicts intergroup prejudices as deeply ingrained, requiring intense intervention to lastingly reduce. Here, we show that a single approximately...
View ArticleComplexity and Grace - Saybrook University
I have been teaching systems thinking as an approach to deal with complexity for many years. Complexity has become a catch word, something that is recognized as a part of modern life, something that...
View ArticleInaugural lecture Tine De Moor available online — European Rural History...
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View ArticleCalling Dunbar's Numbers
The social brain hypothesis predicts that humans have an average of about 150 relationships at any given time. Within this 150, there are layers of friends of an ego, where the number of friends in a...
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