ISSS2019 – Natures Enduring Patterns: A Path to Systems Literacy
63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
Friday June 28 to Tuesday July 2, 2019
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Video Introduction by Peter Tuddenham, President 2018-2019For over 60 years, ISSS has offered bridges that connect people from all disciplines, activities and cultures to the field and science of systems. Today there is an even greater demand for transdisciplinary- and integrative-systems knowledge: our challenge now is to share this legacy and offer relevant and accessible knowledge of systemics to the people who are seeking it. We wish to build on that legacy to inspire the next generation of teachers, students, researchers, engineers, business people, artists, and systems practitioners to join ISSS in the effort of developing a systems literacy in practice.
Recognizing our embeddedness in nature provides ways to investigate the common patterns or ‘isomorphies’ of concepts, laws, and models in various fields, and to help in useful transfers from one field to another. Understanding and appreciating these patterns is key to the development of systems-literate people able to make robust decisions and act in complex situations, considering relationships and effects of systems of all kinds and at all levels.
Systems literacy can help guide a discussion about good governance for a peaceful and sustainable world. One of the necessary ways to address the interconnected and global effects is with systemic sensitivity and powerful insights from systems science.
