<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Verdana;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Bookman Old Style";
panose-1:2 5 6 4 5 5 5 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.font
{mso-style-name:font;}
span.size
{mso-style-name:size;}
p.qt-msonormal, li.qt-msonormal, div.qt-msonormal
{mso-style-name:qt-msonormal;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.EmailStyle27
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">What about the goal of transcending these error-prone and fragile containers? Posthumanism has always been the driver for me.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Prof David West<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 4, 2023 3:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Merle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From the book I am currently finishing:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="size"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Manifesto</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Every aspect of human life — how we work, play, live, and love; how we define our relationships with each other and with our environment — have been, and continue to be, shaped by computers
and the software that drives them.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Those entrusted with the power and the responsibility of creating computer-software artifacts and systems must recognize that their efforts transcend simple careerism and professionalism
and rise to the level of a calling — one guided by a set of Core Principles:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;line-height:115%"><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">I-</span></span><span class="size"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></span><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Humans First. Everything is done on behalf of human beings, by human beings.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;line-height:115%"><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">II-</span></span><span class="size"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></span><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Businesses, organizations, governments, and associations are
<i>Living Systems </i>in exactly the same way as socio-cultural, biological, and ecological systems are
<i>Living Complex Adaptive Systems.</i></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">III-</span></span><span class="size"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></span><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Effort should focus on the production and introduction of appropriate ‘artifacts’ into
<i>Living Systems</i>, to improve, enhance, or amend them.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">IV-</span></span><span class="size"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></span><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Computer-software artifacts, in all cases, must be designed to augment, extend, enhance, or support human abilities.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="size"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">* * * * * * *</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">The concepts and principles of Software Engineering coupled with the assumption of development as a Production Process governed by rigid Project Management practices; that have dominated
development for the past fifty plus years are inadequate and often antithetical to the goals of this manifesto.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">They must be replaced by a new discipline, a new art:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<span class="size"><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Living Systems Development</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">davew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 3:30 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt" id="qt">
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">From: <b>Lisa Schirch</b> <<a href="mailto:lschirch@nd.edu" target="_blank">lschirch@nd.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:20 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Subject: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">To: <span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Merle Lefkoff</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="qt-msonormal">I am pleased to invite you to the <b>Designing Tech for Social Cohesion Conference on 23-25 February 2023 at San Francisco's Fisherman’s Wharf. </b> This conference is bringing together tech innovators, tech critics, and the peacebuilding
community to explore new tech platforms useful to building social cohesion, including individual agency to participate in civic life, building bridges between divided groups, and supporting citizens in relating to governing institutions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Click here for the </span></span><a href="https://techandsocialcohesion.org/conference/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full
Conference Agenda</span></a><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">. And
</span></span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-tech-for-social-cohesion-tickets-473427643827" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">click here to register.</span></a><span class="font"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class="qt-msonormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="qt-msonormal">Please pass on this invitation to your networks. <o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Join us to explore a new generation of tech products that offer affordances and algorithms that promote prosocial content.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:black"><img border="0" width="1" height="1" style="width:.0119in;height:.0119in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://default.salsalabs.org/X7e7fd53d-c2c3-4e99-bf4d-caca77659fd4/4d84db72-958c-40ab-975a-2bf3bcbebae6"></span><span style="font-size:1.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:white" id="qt-m_393121645264465445m_-6426928632071897641m_2595419454162503058m_4222428161674492208sli-background">
<tbody>
<tr id="qt-m_393121645264465445m_-6426928632071897641m_2595419454162503058m_4222428161674492208id_e29cdd14-b5ba-41b4-968a-2bc187b067a1">
<td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in" id="qt-m_393121645264465445m_-6426928632071897641m_2595419454162503058m_4222428161674492208sli">
<div align="center">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr style="overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:auto;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;background-position-x:center;background-position-y:center;background-size:cover">
<td width="960" style="width:10.0in;background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div align="center">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:10.0in">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p style="margin:0in;white-space:pre-wrap"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Center for Emergent Diplomacy<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://emergentdiplomacy.org" target="_blank">emergentdiplomacy.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">mobile: (303) 859-5609<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>