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The Center Leo Apostel (CLEA) invites you to the opening workshop
on "Resilience for the VUCA World", organized by its new
Resilience initiative.
Time: Tuesday, January 28 | 15:00 - 18:00
Place: Center Leo Apostel
Rue de la Stratégie 33, 1160 Brussels
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818196501552666/
RESILIENCE FOR THE VUCA WORLD 2020 INITIATIVE
OPENING DAY WORKSHOP EVENT
The term resilience stems from a Latin root, resilire, to leap
back or to rebound. In the academic literature, resilience is
introduced during the 70s, by the late Canadian ecologist C. S.
Holling. From Holling (1973) point of view, resilience is intricately
linked to 'external shocks' that provoke changes within the
'internal ecosystem' of an ecological system.
The early views on resilience are mostly concerned with the
structural and functional integrity of ecological systems. As evidence
on complexity of connection between social systems and ecological
systems rose, these resilience definitions moved towards a
more hybrid view aka socio-ecological resilience. This point of
view is founded and popularised by Stockholm Resilience
Alliance.
The RESILIENCE FOR THE VUCA WORLD RESEARCH 2020 INITIATIVE is
initiated by Dr. Shima Beigi, a resilience research scientist and
smart city expert whose research on resilience of complex systems has
led to the creation of Mindfulness Engineering. Mindfulness
Engineering offers a unifying resilience theory for volatile,
uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) World.
By combining resilience and VUCA, Dr. Beigi provides a systemic
perspective on resilience. The term VUCA depicts the characteristics
of today's world and is being adopted by top industry leaders and
scientists across the world. The term VUCA further calls societies,
governments and economic leaders to become aware of the perils and
opportunities of today's global issues and interdependencies.
Resilience in the VUCA world is more than our current awareness
of resilience. Today, most researchers and businesses think of
resilience in terms of shocks, and stressors and focus on macro-level
characteristics such as absorption of shocks, bouncing back from
mishaps or building a future proof system. In addition, resilience
modeling techniques are overwhelmingly focused on the available
understanding of resilience via analysis of basins of attractions, and
fitness landscape.
RESILIENCE FOR THE VUCA WORLD RESEARCH 2020 INITIATIVE views
resilience as a systemic property that stems from micro-meso and macro
scale connections between parts of a complex system. These parts have
their own unique properties which have to be integrated into any
resilience intervention strategy.
Therefore, an equal focus needs to be placed on the understanding
of the subtleties and nuances of complex qualitative features of the
process of resilience formation. Cognitive elements such as knowledge,
learning, culture, and identity are critical components of
resilience.
RESILIENCE FOR THE VUCA WORLD RESEARCH 2020 INITIATIVE aims to
play a leading role in building sustainable and resilient urban
systems, infrastructure systems and social systems. With expertise in
resilience, sustainability, urban systems, complexity science, and
cybernetics, the research group aspires to fulfill this goal by:
o Holding resilience
workshops and events across Europe;
o Working closely with
research institutions around the world to develop
global resilience partnerships;
o Sparking international
conversation about resilience; and
o Funding and attracting
a young generation of thinkers, artists, scientists and
entrepreneurs.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Tuesday 28/01/2020 15:00 - 18:00
15:00 to 15:15 Introduction
15:00 to 16:15 Dr. Shima Beigi
"Resilience for VUCA World 2020 Intitiative, Aims, Visions and
Framework" 16:15 to 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 to 16:45 Pedro Maldonado
"Synergies and Structural Behaviours of Reaction
Networks"
16:45 to 17:30 Group Discussion and Reflections
17:30 to 18:00 Closing Notes
Contact details:
Dr. Shima Beigi
BSc, MSc, MSc, PhD. [email protected]
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Center Leo Apostel
Rue de la Stratégie 33, 1160 Bruxelles
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Center Leo Apostel
Free University of Brussels (VUB)
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
