4th Annual Australia New Zealand Systems Conference - 7th to 10th October 1998
Creative Systems Practice
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:
Call for papers and posters
Venue: University of Western Sydney- Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
Sponsored by
Systemic Development Centre
UWS - Hawkesbury
Bourke St Richmond
NSW, Australia, 2753
Tel 61 024570 1690
email
g.wallace@uws.edu.au
CONFERENCE FOCUS
This conference has been designed so that creative systems practitioners
can share and discuss their ideas. The dynamics are strategically
interactive, inclusive and generative. It is a focussed environment for
training providers, researchers, community leaders and organisation
managers, industrialists, environmentalists and educators who are concerned
with the systemic development of their workplace. As such this conference
is multi-disciplinary in nature. Its emphasis is on the creative use of
systems thinking and practices, in its many guises, as frameworks for
managing multi disciplinary content in the learning processes of design and
change management. It will bring together practitioners, researchers, and
educators from various fields of endeavour including:
Industrial Design,
Environmental Management,
Farming, Agribusiness and Extension,
Rural and Community Development,
Organisational Change and
Education.
Throughout the conference delegates will be engaged in a process that has
been designed to facilitate a sharing of knowledge across these disparate
and rarely connected domains of action. In doing this the conference will
explore how complex issues are being addressed and how creative approaches
are developing especially where systems practitioners draw on such ideas as
The Psychology of Systems Thinking
Soft Systems Approaches
Chaos and Complexity
Systems Dynamics
Systems Engineering
Systemic Action Research
Information Technology
Learning Organisations
Systemic Curriculum and Implementation
Industry and Community Leadership
Innovations in Complex Problem Solving
Community Driven Economic Management and
Industry Extension and Development
In engaging with these fields of knowledge the idea is to generate
opportunities for the sharing of approaches and identify opportunities for
developing new approaches for managing difficult situations. Approaches
that simultaneously find the points of greatest leverage on the system in
focus while having minimal detrimental effects on other people,
organisations and the environment in which the system is embedded. The
conference will also include a facilitated systemic futures workshop to
help all participants to explore the future of their domains of action and
the role of systems thinking and practices within these domains.
In this context the key purposes of the conference are:
To make systems thinking principles and methods accessible to a wide audience
To provide examples of the creative use of systems thinking in real situations
To project scenarios of the future within each domain of action and to
identify emerging needs for systems practitioners and researchers within
in these possible futures.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE
English
VENUE
University of Western Sydney- Hawkesbury
Richmond, New South Wales
Australia
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Anyone involved in systems delivery and change projects. These conferences
usually attract practitioners and academics from a wide range of
disciplines including Organisational Transition, Strategic Planning,
Problem Solving, Systems Design, Project and Operations Management, Farming
Systems Research and Extension, Community Leaders, Development
Facilitators, Organisational Managers, Industrialists and
Environmentalists. In the end people who are concerned with creating change
and managing within the complexity of social, environmental and economic
dynamics. The emphasis on delivery and implementation will ensure a bias
towards practical systems thinking.
CONFERENCE FORMAT.
Day 1 Registration and a social event during the evening. (7th Oct)
Day 2 & 3 A series of keynote speakers and paper sessions with
facilitated critical discussion sessions strategically placed to open up
the field of Creative Systems Practice.
DAY 4: Global scenario setting, conference review and a ???Systems Scenario
Workshop??? to explore the future of systems practices in each field of
endeavour.
CALL FOR PAPERS
All papers addressing the practical application of systems thinking will be
considered. Please send (or email) an abstract of approximately 200 - 400
words summarising your proposed presentation to the address below.
KEY DATES
Deadline for abstracts May 29, 1998
Papers July 31 1998
Address for papers and abstracts.
The Organising Team
ANZSys Conference 1998
c/- Hawkesbury Technologies Ltd
UWS-Hawkesbury
PO Box 415
Richmond NSW 2753
Email
g.wallace@uws.edu.au
Fax 02 4570 1750
Enquiries phone Alison Frost on: 61 02 4570 1690
Gary Wallace -
g.wallace@uws.edu.au
Gary Wallace -
g.wallace@uws.edu.au