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Copies of pages from Warfield’s course notebook titled "Social Systems Design" which he taught at University of Virginia in 1979 Fall semester.
Warfield argues that "effective stakeholder participation is the only resort" for realistically attaining the goals of our political platforms, but "participation is only part of the answer; we have to enable our citizenship to function." Proceeds to describe Interactive Management using the seven Consensus Methodologies from the Center for Interactive Management at UVA as illustrations. Manuscript includes an outline of talk and copies of transparencies. An invited address presented at the Governor's Commission on Virginia's…
These are PowerPoint slides prepared for a videotaped lecture. A video of this lecture is available. This is the first in a series of 14 lectures called “Managing the Unmanageable.”
An unfished paper.
Explores the limits of written prose as opposed to graphical representation. Warfield asserts that scientific communication, e.g. the work of writing such things as technical reports describing a complex project or a complex situation is currently hampered by a reliance on prose (or as he calls it "linear prose"). Prose alone cannot effectively explain and display the complexities which much be dealt with in most modern management, government and engineering activities. He proposes that education…
A summary of work done by a small group discussing ways to develop music and arts education centers nationwide. The “Florentine Conference” was organized by Ray Evans Harrell, a New York City musical entrepreneur, a talented musician and voice teacher who wanted to experiment with Warfield's Interactive Management process in the field of music. See also, “Warfield to Ray Harrell, protesting bad IM Workshop plan, 15 March 2004." Conference held in Alexandria, VA, 25-27 May…
Defining a `metapolicy' as a policy for how policymaking will be carried out, Warfield discusses six important policymaking dimensions in which human behavior can constrain or restrict policy choices. The paper concludes with suggestions for unconventional methods, employing technology to support selected idea actions, to negate certain of these behavioral constraints. Presented at IEEE Conference on Cybernetics & Society, September, 1975, San Francisco, CA.
An introductory manual on structural modeling and group facilitation. The selections chosen for this manual came from Volume 2 of Designs for the Future of Environmental Education, 1980 FINAL REPORT, Contract #300-700-4028 submitted to Walter J. Bogan, head of Office of Environmental Education, U.S. Dept. Education. The manual was used as a handout in a course on Complexity and Interactive Management at George Mason University.
A general descriptive piece about the Interactive Management process, itemizing its distinctive features, and giving locations where the process is in actual use as a planning/management tool.
This report is based on work Warfield did in Ghana in January 1990, and includes materials which he had already presented to CSIR in January 1999 (in a talk titled "Success Factors in Technology Transfer for Developing Nations") and is a follow on to his earlier consulting work in Ghana during 1989. The full title of this article is: Project and Funding Proposals for Development of Technology Transfer Centre. Report to Council for Scientific &…
A capability statement written to accompany proposals from Institute for the Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS), this paper gives project descriptions of the activities in Warfield's institute through June 1992. See notes field for list of projects described.
In English, the title of this article is "A Course in Generic Design for Engineers." The paper is a course outline for a college-level class, based on courses in generic design for engineering students taught by Professor Warfield at the University of Virginia in the early 1980s. See also, “A Course in Generic Design for Engineers (1995 version).”
This document was printed and used as the manual for the short course titled: Topics in Public Policy—Demands of Complexity on Writing and Research, Course No. PUBP 833-005, offered as a short course by The Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University 9-11 January 1995, and taught by Dr. Warfield. The manual consists of 154 pages, and is made up of some new writings plus several previously issued manuscripts and publications.
Proposes a field Systems Science that will fulfill at least five different roles: as a science of description, as a science of generic design, as a science of complexity, as a science of action, and as a science that incorporates methodologies from other disciplines when necessary. See also, “Original Manuscript for ‘A Proposal for Systems Science’” and “Forecast for Systems Science”
Proposal to teach a course of study on the subject of complexity that could be integrated into part of the ongoing public policy curriculum. He suggests that for this course his teaching pattern follow the British system of study - in which the student has only one examination taken at the end of his studies on the subject. The new Complexity course would include extensive use of Internet teaching, personal individual conferences with students, and…
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A proposal to the National Science Foundation that Warfield carry on the work with Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) from his new job at the University of Virginia. For further information, "A User's Guide to Systems Methodology.”
A proposal to the Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University to create a room designed for Interactive Management workshops. See also, Group Design Laboratory Use and Facilities" which describes a previous Demosophia. Later incorporated into "The Wandwaver Solution."
Warfield’s formal proposal to George Mason University to conduct a series of lectures on complexity. The proposal was accepted and the lectures occurred between September and December 1998 at the Johnson Center, George Mason University.
An unfinished paper where Warfield discusses ideas on complexity beginning with C. S. Peirce and leading toward work at Battelle and later.
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