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AI as a Catalyst for Democratic, Bottom-Up Viable System Design: From Collective Intelligence to Organizational Resilienc
Saturday July 5, 2025 09:00 - 10:30 BST
MBS Room 1
Join a conversation at Metaphorum 2025 about how artificial intelligence can help organizations become more adaptive, creative, and democratic by supporting bottom-up design with the Viable System Model (VSM).
 
Let’s explore together how or whether AI can:
Capture and synthesize insights from people’s day-to-day experiences, turning them into actionable priorities and shared knowledge.
Visualize and manage the evolving skills, values, and beliefs that underpin an organization’s identity and resilience.
Facilitate transparent, reputation-based decision-making that welcomes diverse perspectives and honest disagreement, in the spirit of Jonathan Rauch’s Constitution of Knowledge.
Support continuous learning and adaptive homeostasis—helping organizations balance operational needs with innovation as their environment changes.
 
This conversation is for anyone interested in building organizations that grow from the ground up, where strategy emerges from collaborative action and shared values, and where technology serves as a scaffold for participation, agency, and collective sense-making.
 
Bring your questions, your skepticism, and your experience. Let’s discuss how AI can become a catalyst for truly participative, viable systems—where everyone has a voice, and the organization’s intelligence is more than the sum of its parts.
Presenters
avatar for Peter Tuddenham

Peter Tuddenham

CoExplorer, College of Exploration
Peter D. Tuddenham is the President of the College of Exploration (TCOE) , a not-for-profit global online learning organization he co-founded in Virginia USA in  1991.  He is Past President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2018-2019) and a trustee of the American... Read More →
avatar for Jon Walker

Jon Walker

Director, Metaphorum
Jon Walker has over forty years experience working in the co-operative business sector. He has established and co-managed a range of businesses including retail outlets, a small-scale manufacturing plant, a warehouse and a chain of supermarkets dealing mainly with whole-food, organic... Read More →
avatar for Jonathan Huxley

Jonathan Huxley

Captain RFA, RFA retired
Jonathan Huxley has been at sea for 47 years of which 25 have been in command. During his career he has worked in a wide variety of theatres from the Mediterranean, South Atlantic, Gulf, Sierra Leone, Far East, Australasia, Caribbean, Antarctic and Artic as well as regular operations... Read More →
Saturday July 5, 2025 09:00 - 10:30 BST
MBS Room 1 Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) The University of Manchester Booth Street West Manchester M15 6PB, England, United Kingdom
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