53th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - Brisbane 2009

53th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - Brisbane 2009 Project ISSS Conference Place The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia Date(s) July 12-17, 2009 Person in charge The School of Integrative Systems and ANZSYS Type of participants Researchers, ISSS Members Total Duration 5 days Link(s) [| ISSS Journal archives]

Sunday

• Professor Len Troncale - The System of Systems Processes Theory (SoSP) – A Workshop on How Systems Work (or Don’t Work)
• Dr John Kineman and Judith Rosen - Relational Theory Workshop – Fundamentals of Relational Theory Part II
• Alexander and Kathia Laszlo - Welcome Cocktail Reception by The University of Queensland Vice Chancellor and Traditional Welcome

Monday

• Professor Ockie Bosch - Setting the Scene: Unremarkable, Liveable, Sustainable Systems
• ISSS President, Professor Tim Allen - The positive attractor: the role of the holistic worldview in the evolution of a sustainable societal system
• Graeme Taylor - Analysing Liveability – More than Constructive Ambiguity
• Dr Jacqui de Chazal - Liveability as a constraint on sustainability or sustainability as a constraint on liveability? Defining terms and mapping relationships to separate scaled hard constraints from soft preferences
• Professor Martin Burd - Hunting, gathering, investing, globalizing: the evolutionary roots of economic behaviour
• Professor Richard Bawden - Inclusive well-being: a systemic view of development

Monday Sessions

• **Session 1 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 207) - Cybernetics and VSM**

 * Allenna Leonard - A Sociocybernetic Model of Liveable and Sustainable Social Systems
 * Stephens J - The Application of Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model to Strategic Planning
 * Tejeida-Padilla - In Search of a Viable System Model for After-Sales Spare Parts Service in Telecom Firms

• **Session 2 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 211) - Critical Systems Theory and Practice**

 * Dean - Expense Accounts, MPs and Accountability in the British Parliament: An Autopoietic Perspective
 * Foote - Systemic Evaluation of Community Environmental Management Programmes
 * Smith, T - Using Critical Systems Thinking to Help Development Practitioners Foster Sustainable and Liveable Communities

• **Session 3 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 213) - Socio-Ecological Systems**

 * Painter - Sustainable Water Allocation for Families, Fish and Farming: a Wicked Problem Or a Wicked Solution?
 * Eriyatno - Model of Regional Policy Strategy in Sustainability Irrigation Management
 * Ross - A Systems Framework for Integrated Water Resource Management

• **Session 4 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 214) - Designing Educational Systems**

 * Love - Using Variety Analyses to Improve Educational Sustainability and Liveability
 * Nguyen - Capacity Building for Learning Laboratory for Sustainability: the Case of Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve (Viet Nam)

• **Session 5 (Gordon Greenwood Building Room 215) - Organizational Transformation and Social Change**

 * Harel - Livability and Sustainability Are They Contradictory? A Social Organizational Perspective on Participatory Action Research Oriented Response
 * Taylor - Systems Thinking: The Key to Survival
 * Dos Santos Martins - Sustainable Development Requires An Integrating Discipline to Address Its Unique Problems - Design Thinking

• **Open Room (Able Smith Building Room 1)**

 * Various Workshops

Monday Evening

• James Simms - ISSS Board Meeting
• Len Troncale - Making the Soft Sciences Hard and Making Systems Science Relevant
• Tuesday July 14 2009
• Progressive Plenary Session Facilitated by Alexander and Kathia Laszlo

 * Brisbane River - A Voice for Waterways: An integrated approach to managing catchments and waterways in Australia’s fastest-growing region (UQ Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield)
 * Mt-Cootha Botanical Gardens - Peri-urban Food systems (Martha Sheppard)
 * Queensland State Planning & Infrastructure, Brisbane CBD - Infrastructure for a fast-growing State (John Larcombe)

• Alexander and Kathia Laszlo - Closing Remarks and next steps

Tuesday

• Assoc. Professor Bob Cavana - People First: How to make environmental sustainability something we want to live with.
• The Hon. Steve Maharey - Contemporary Government Challenges: Delivering performance and accountability' and the intersections with 'wicked policy problems
• Lynelle Briggs - Tea
• Prof Ray Ison - Café Style Interactive Plenary Session facilitated by ANZSYS (Australian and New Zealand Systems Group): Conversation Mapping coordinated by Prof Ray Ison – examining issues raised by keynote speakers, Panel discussion between the 2 keynote speakers & organizers of conversation mapping workshop, Discussions & Feedback

Wednesday

• Professor Helen Ross - Art & Systems Thinking – Floating Lands Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability: Connectedness
• Christine Ballinger & Ben McMullen - Getting our act together: a systems change in everyday decision-making
• Professors Ockie Bosch & Kambiz Maani - Role of Systems Approaches in the sustainable management of Biosphere Systems Thinking in Planning and Managing Hai Phong City, Vietnam
• Michael Williams - Role of Systems Thinking in Journalism and media coverage of complex issues
• Professor Val Brown - Lunch

Thursday

• Professor Kambiz Maani - The role of Systems Approaches in the sustainable management of Biosphere Systems Thinking in Planning and Managing Hai Phong City, Vietnam
• Dr Ishwaran Natajaran - Systems Thinking in Planning and Managing Hai Phong City, Vietnam
• Dr Nguyen Van Thanh - Role of Systems Thinking in Journalism and media coverage of complex issues
• Professor Michael Bromley - Lunch
• Professor Amareswar Galla - Systems Expressed in Everyday Life – Art, People, Tourism, Planning, Management, Journalism, Cultural Heritage Development

This breakdown organizes the information based on the speakers and the subjects discussed during the conference sessions on each day.