Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns - Couverture souple

Bateson, Nora

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909470961 ISBN 13 : 9781909470965

Editeur : Triarchy Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Building on Gregory Bateson's famous book Towards an Ecology of Mind and her own film on the subject, Nora Bateson here updates our thinking on systems and ecosystems, applying her own insights and those of her team at IBI to education, organisations, complexity, academia, and the way that society organizes itself. She also introduces the term symmathesy to describe the contextual mutual learning through interaction that takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales. While she retains her father's rigorous attention to definition, observation and academic precision, she also moves well beyond that frame of reference to incorporate more embodied ways of knowing and understanding. These are reflected in her essays and poems on food, Christmas, love, honesty, environmentalism and leadership. [Subject: Systems thinking, education, social anthropology, environmentalism, Bateson, symmathesy]

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nora Bateson is an independent film-maker, writer, policy adviser and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson, and grand-daughter of William Bateson and is president of the Stockholm-based International Bateson Institute (IBI) - a research group that specializes in transcontextual research into human and other living systems. Nora made the award-winning film An Ecology of Mind, which explores Gregory Bateson's theoretical work while offering insights into her relationship with her father. Nora's first published work was a cookbook and her interest in food, ecology and the family - as well as systems thinking and symmathesy - are very evident in her beautiful new book Small Arcs of Larger Circles. Nora Bateson's theoretical style combines complex systems theory and analysis with an all-round awareness of, and attention to, the aesthetic. She continues to explore a wide range of disparate topics such as education, communication, and cybernetics. This aspect of her work is exemplified in her film and in Small Arcs of Larger Circles. In Small Arcs of Larger Circles, Nora Bateson presents the words "symmathesy" and "vitae" to help "unstick" conventional systems thinking about parts and wholes. She defines symmathesy as: "An entity composed by contextual mutual learning through interaction. This process of interaction and mutual learning takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales of symmathesy."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Triarchy Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909470961
• ISBN 13: 9781909470965
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible