Metaphorum2025

Metaphorum2025

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John Waters

About me

Autodidactic opsimath with an interest in synergy-harvesting, variety management and trying to keep the planet alive and healthy. Especially interested in the components of an yet unrealized Conant-Ashby compliant economy, distributed control, sustainable resource use, information-preserving currencies and metasystemic mirrors.

Fellow, The Schumacher Institute.
Director, Robert Owen Community Banking Fund.
A member of the development team for the Open Metrics and Open Money projects.

Part-time hedgehog and newt farmer.

09:00 BST

Onsite Registration and Networking MBS Room 1

10:00 BST

Official opening and welcome by the organizers team MBS Room 1Angela Espinosa • Jon Walker • Allenna Leonard • Ayham Fattoum

10:20 BST

Problem Jostle MBS Room 1Jon Walker • Angela Espinosa • Ayham Fattoum • Allenna Leonard

11:30 BST

Coffee break MBS Room 1

11:45 BST

Designing for Regeneration: Activating Collaborative Intelligence in Living Systems): MBS Room 1Jan De Visch The Viable System Model as a Framework for National Sustainability: Insights from the UAE’s Governance Structure MBS Room 2Dr Iffat Sabir Chaudhry

12:45 BST

Lunch break MBS Room 1 Lunch MBS Room 1

13:45 BST

Observing interactions- a project background MBS Room 2Igor Perko Workshop: A Blueprint for a ‘state of the art’ (VSM) Environment for Decision Making MBS Room 1Steve Brewis • Angela Espinosa • Martin Pfiffner • Jose Perez Rios • Jon Walker

14:45 BST

Viable Sustainable Missions (2VSM): Toward Recursive Governance for Systemic Sustainability MBS Room 2Pedro Pablo Cardoso • Nirvia Ravena de Sousa

15:45 BST

Coffee break MBS Room 1

16:00 BST

From Alien Intelligence to Systemic Coherence: Toward Viable Human–AI Collaboration through VSM, GHAS, and the Science of Fit–Form–Function MBS Room 2Gary Smith The final clue of viability … Is it hidden in Dorian Gray's picture? MBS Room 1Wolfang Lassl

17:00 BST

Closing of Day 1 MBS Room 1

09:00 BST

Workshop: Designing Adaptive Governance for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Viable System Approach in the Face of Systemic Risks MBS Room 1Juliana Mariano Alves • Jon Walker

09:30 BST

How might system science improve human wellbeing? MBS Room 2Shann Turnbull

10:30 BST

Coffee break MBS Room 1

10:45 BST

Workshop: Enhancing VSM: Integrating Resilience and Human Values for System Viability MBS Room 1Stephen McGibbon • Ayham Fattoum • Andrew Basden Transduction and Identity: process and dynamics of adaptation in Viable Systems. MBS Room 2camilo osejo bucheli

11:45 BST

The Viable System Model for Strengthening the Resilience of Rural Communities in Mexico City's Water and Tourism System MBS Room 2Zeltzin Pérez Matamoros

12:45 BST

Lunch MBS Room 1

13:45 BST

Presentation - Andrew Basden (TBC) MBS Room 1Andrew Basden • Ayham Fattoum VSM Master Class (I) MBS Room 2Wolfang Lassl • Angela Espinosa • Martin Pfiffner • Jose Perez Rios

14:00 BST

'Feeding the model': field methods for the novice VSM practitioner MBS Room 2Michael Lingard

14:30 BST

What is an effective VSM 'elevator pitch' to audiences unfamilar with Systems Thinking? MBS Room 2James Brewer

14:45 BST

The Process Industry Neurology Project MBS Room 1Chris Hamlin • Penny Hamlin

15:00 BST

Navigating the Wild West: Applying the Viable System Model from the Margins of Power MBS Room 2Malik Radwan

15:15 BST

An endeavour towards efficiency for discussion at the VSM Masterclass MBS Room 2Laura Donovan-Holmes

15:30 BST

VSM Master Class (II) MBS Room 2Angela Espinosa • Martin Pfiffner • Jose Perez Rios • Wolfang Lassl

15:45 BST

Coffee break MBS Room 1

16:00 BST

Climate Change and three models of governance to deal with it: Polycentricity, Experimentalist, and the Viable System Model MBS Room 2Brian Lederer

17:00 BST

Closing of Day 2 MBS Room 1

19:00 BST

Later at the bar, informal gathering TBA

09:00 BST

AI as a Catalyst for Democratic, Bottom-Up Viable System Design: From Collective Intelligence to Organizational Resilienc MBS Room 2Jonathan Huxley • Jon Walker Fostering human intelligence, system intelligence and human accountability within the operations room – Eudemony as a measure of success. MBS Room 1Ian Stokes

10:30 BST

Coffee break MBS Room 1

10:45 BST

Team syntegrity taster - A Leonard, J Alves MBS Room 2Allenna Leonard • Juliana Mariano Alves Cybernetic Leadership for AI Agents: A Viable System Model (VSM) Approach to AI Governance and Autonomy MBS Room 1Dr. Jan Wehinger

11:45 BST

"From green to smart buildings: towards a Multi-Level Cybernetic Perspective (MLCP) of Built Environment Transition Intermediaries (BETIs)" MBS Room 1Tom Chan

12:45 BST

Lunch MBS Room 1

13:45 BST

Team syntegrity New Developments - Joe Trust MBS Room 2Joe Truss Bridging VSM and AI: Reviewing Progress, Shaping Futures with the Metaphorum AI Special Interest Group MBS Room 1Margaret Heath • Panos Panagiotakopoulos • Peter Tuddenham

14:45 BST

Coffee break MBS Room 1

15:00 BST

'Beer’s legacy – its impact on organisations, education and society: “What do we tell the grandchildren?”' MBS Room 1Allenna Leonard • Angela Espinosa • Jon Walker • Ayham Fattoum