Feedback Loops and
Knowledge Gardens
A Case for Improved Socio-technical Infrastructures Jack Park
Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress
San Francisco, 19-20 April 2013 CC-By
From the perspective of complexity theory, emergence arises from complex systems that create new properties from “autonomous unities coming together into larger, more powerful unities”*
Complex Systems Shared Stories Collaboration in the Garden
* [2]
The emergence we seek is that of insight into the nature of and solutions to complex problems
Great Law of the Iroquois
"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation...”
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill Is daily spun; but there exists no loom To weave it into fabric – Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Strategy
Learning, Improving Requires Feedback
ordered gardens
wild borders
ordered gardens
wild borders
Structured but emergent networks of claims and arguments
Informally expressed claims and arguments,
awaiting ‘proper linkage’
Source: Simon Buckingham Shum
Towards a cultivated ecosystem…
Triple Learning Loop
[1], Page 23
Completed Representation
antioxidants kill
free radicals
Contraindicates
macrophages use free radicals to
kill bacteria
Bacterial Infection Antioxidants
Because
Appropriate For
Compromised Host
Let us co-create solutions to cancer
References
• [1] FEDERAL HEALTH FUTURES SUMMIT LEADERSHIP LEARNING for TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE. September 10-11, 2012 Washington DC Metro Region
• [2] Olen Gunnlaugson (2011). A Complexity Perspective on Presencing. Complicity, Vol 9, No 1 (2012). Online at: http://ejournals.library.
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Built windmills/Solar homes
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AI to analyze data
Collective intelligence
Knowledge gardens
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