Power-Over becomes Power-With Happy to share this from Humantific Journal, since it relates directly to Design for Complexity in action. In celebration of appreciating Otto Neurath at 90 I was happy to give a short talk; "Neurath Meets Guilford" at the May 27th, Symbol 26 Conference organized in Vienna. We have not presented at a IIID conference for several years so was good to be reconnected and make a contribution in the direction of two people who's work we greatly respect and admire. The...

"HOW SYSTEMS SCIENCE ARCHITECTED THE POLYCRISIS" Happy Friday NextD Journal Friends/Readers: Sometimes a journalistic enterprise can best contribute to a subject by pointing out perspective threads that seem to be missing. In this spirit we saw the recently published, essay entitled “The Oracles of Optimization: How Systems Science Architected the Polycrisis” by Clinton Alden serving to open a window into a side of the systems conversation fundamentally missing from the rather...

Welcome back NextD Journal readers. This week, to close out the year, a spontaneously created follow-up to the earlier OUTSIDE/INSIDE ...