[ECCO] FW: Metaphorum Announcement

[margeret heath]

Title: Metaphorum Announcement

Dear All,   For those interested in socio-cybernetics, governance and social organization, the following meeting in Dublin may be very interesting to you. For more information do contact Dr Paul Stokes, below.   Regards, Margeret     -----Original Message----- From: Paul STOKES [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:00 PM To: Margeret Heath Subject: Fw: Metaphorum Announcement Importance: High   Margeret,   Is this a moderated list? Perhaps you might forward it yourself?   Thanks, Paul   Metaphorum Announcement   Designing Governance VSM as a tool for effective and liberatory governance   May 5th & 6th 2005 Institute for the Study of Social Change, National University of Ireland Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4   Metaphorum was established to honour and to build on the work of Stafford Beer. Building on previous meetings of Metaphorum which have have taken place in Sunderland and London (see: www.metaphorum.org  and www.cybsoc.org ) in 2005 Metaphorum moves to Dublin to consider the possible contribution of Beer’s cybernetics to the design and construction of realistic, effective and yet emancipatory social orders. The Metaphorum will seek to learn from and build on Stafford’s work in Chile with Salvador Allende and the Chilean people before that initiative was destroyed.   Human or social cybernetics (as in the work of Beer or Bateson) represents a formal attempt to identify the elements and practices of the art and science of good governance. The meeting will be seeking to learn for their work in the design of institutions of governance that are both realistic and effective as well as liberatory. Recently a number of real-life initiatives around the globe have been identified as so-called 'real utopias'. It is with a view to extending our formal and practical knowledge of such possibilities that this Metaphorum is being convened. And so reflective practitioners of all kinds are invited to attend so that we may all learn to become more effective practitioners. We are asking participants how cybernetics may be used to assist in the construction of effective and liberatory social orders. Specifically, what interfaces or forms of transduction will be necessary to enable cyberneticists and practitioners alike to share knowledge, insights and experience?   Abstracts are invited for submission before the 28th February, 2005.   Details of the Programme for the event will be posted on the Metaphorum website over the coming days and weeks: www.metaphorum.org.   Dr Paul A. STOKES Department of Sociology National University of Ireland, Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Tel: 00-353-1-7168233 Fax: 00-353-1-7161125 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]