โ Scribed by Nora Bateson
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This is an important first 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, president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI) and an adviser to numerous bodies at international and governmental level.
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 two terms:
โข'symmathesy ' to describe the contextual mutual learning through interaction that takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales
โข'transcontextuality ' to describe the multiple, interlayered spatial, social, temporal, cultural, ecological, economic contexts in which...
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