October intake: transitions, practice, tools and events
This update includes all 31 published SysCoI additions found after 19 September through 7 October 2026, a source-led Schot reading, the current events collection and a review of newer public queue items. Reading leads, source-backed statements and editorial applications have different statuses.
Read Schot and test the conditions around a pilot · OrgLens: experimental tool and evidence limits
All recent SysCoI additions
Titles, dates and outbound links were checked against the public posts. Inclusion records discovery; it does not certify all linked claims.
Making our way – Tim Ingold
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Cybernetics, interoception, and the art of embodiment | Nature Machine Intelligence
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The system is inside the practice: making relational, place-based public services ordinary – Benjamin P Taylor, Thursday 8 October 2026, 12:30-14:00, online, free
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The consultant is in the system: a practice lab for helping without taking over – Benjamin P Taylor, Wednesday 30 September 2026, 12:15-13:45, online, free
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The fly-bottle is where the work happens: systems | cybernetics | complexity, and changing the world from inside the world
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- http://chosen-path.org/2026/09/08/a-more-useful-fly-bottle-systems-cybernetics-complexity-in-six-diagrams/
- https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/09/11/a-critique-of-taylors-a-more-useful-fly-bottle-systems-cybernetics-complexity-in-six-diagrams-also-taylor-2026/
- https://thecynefin.co/an-inhibiting-constraint/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukecraven_it-turns-out-systems-change-people-love-a-share-7508018582304337920-5rLM/
Systems Practice: Patrick Hoverstadt
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Systems Thinking?
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Objects, Models, Theories • 4
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- https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/09/10/objects-models-theories-1-a/
- https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/09/12/objects-models-theories-2-a/
- https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2026/09/14/objects-models-theories-3-a/
- https://oeis.org/wiki/Functional_Logic_%E2%80%A2_Inquiry_and_Analogy#Aristotle's_Paradigm
- https://oeis.org/wiki/Functional_Logic_%E2%80%A2_Inquiry_and_Analogy
- https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/01/survey-of-abduction-deduction-induction-analogy-inquiry-5/
- https://www.academia.edu/community/la0XMw
- https://groups.google.com/g/cybcom/c/36I4pZL7JgQ
- https://groups.io/g/lawsofform/topic/objects_models_theories/121183021
- https://mathstodon.xyz/@Inquiry/117310273142339450
- https://www.researchgate.net/post/Objects_Models_Theories
- https://groups.google.com/g/structural-modeling/c/m8ib1-jVy3I
- https://groups.google.com/g/syssciwg/c/MNeeGYtblIc
- https://stream.syscoi.com/2026/09/22/objects-models-theories-4/
Machines of Loving Grace
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#SysPrac26 – Day 1 – Doug Belshaw
The Second Law of Technodynamics – Velitchkov (2026)
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Celebrating 100 Years of Stafford Beer: playing the POSIWID cards
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Peter Block: relationships, resistance and the relevance of ‘Flawless Consulting’
100 Years of Stafford Beer: Organisational Cybernetics – a legacy whose time has come – Eds Espinosa, Schwaninger, Perez-Rios (2026)
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Hundred Years of Stafford Beer (Documentary) – Metaphorum and Boyan Angelov
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Rationality and Reason Today
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AGLX | OODA Loop Cybernetics: John Boyd’s Cybernetic Engine
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RIP Luc Hoebeke, 27 December 1941 – 26 September 2026
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- https://philippevandenbroeck.medium.com/luc-hoebeke-making-work-systems-better-1994-a201fb476aa
- https://stream.syscoi.com/2018/12/10/making-work-systems-better-a-practitioners-reflections-luc-hoebeke/
- https://stream.syscoi.com/2024/08/31/the-emergent-properties-of-ssm-in-use-a-symposium-by-reflective-practitioners-hoebeke-2000/
(1) The map nobody knows about | LinkedIn
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A second look at the fly-bottle? – O’Rourke (2026)
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Article 9: Beyond Frameworks – Becoming a Systems Practitioner
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Systems Insight Team
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Why research needs complexity entrepreneurs, by Gabriele Bammer and Jean Boulton
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Harish’s Notebook: Euthyphro’s Complexity
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Myron Rogers shares Myron’s Maxims and offers a workshop
BI 247 Maxim Raginsky: A Control Theory View on Brains and AI
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Myron’s maxims: participation, power, and the work of change – Taylor (2026)
Johan Schot: socio-technical transitions, the multi-level perspective, and Deep Transitions
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- https://deeptransitions.net/publication/a-guide-to-deep-transitions/
- https://www.johanschot.com/publications/typology-of-sociotechnical-transition-pathways/
- https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009437318.004
- https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009437318.009
- https://tipconsortium.net/publication/three-frames-for-innovation-policy-rd-systems-of-innovation-and-transformative-change/
- http://stream.syscoi.com/2018/11/22/co-evolutionary-and-multi-level-dynamics-in-transitions-system-innovation-geels/
- http://stream.syscoi.com/2022/08/12/the-dynamics-of-transitions-in-socio-technical-systems-a-multi-level-analysis-of-the-transition-pathway-from-horse-drawn-carriages-to-automobiles-1860-1930-geels-2006/
- http://stream.syscoi.com/2019/06/25/leading-systems-change-nine-strategies-to-transform-the-way-the-world-works-forum-for-the-future/
Events and announcements
Explore the maintained worldwide map and calendar subscriptions. Its current collection was refreshed on 7 October: 230 events, 130 upcoming, with 13 of 36 checked sources yielding dated events and seven reporting failures. These are collection figures, not a completeness claim.
Making relational, place-based public services ordinary: Thursday 8 October, 12:30–14:00 UK time (Europe/London), online and free. The 30 September consulting workshop has taken place; its guide is linked from the organiser’s page. The cancelled conference appearance and the replacement online sessions are distinct records.
Myron Rogers’ workshop announcement remains undated. Direct inbox access returned HTTP 403, but the maintained workflow refreshed all four submissions. The Logosofia showcase is accepted for 21 October, 18:30–20:15 Toronto time, hybrid. Coding Society is a special issue announcement, classified as reading material. Inspect public event submission status.
Queued content: what changed and what remains
September issue queue #68–86
Previous intake and submission review remain visible; no duplicate identities or unverified priority claims created.
OrgLens, formerly VSMkit
Current README identifies three lenses and explicitly limits evidence to fictional organisations. Added as a tool, with claims attributed to its maintainers.
W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive
Existing archive biography, bibliography and digital journal sources retained.
FEM toolkit
Existing toolkit and model practice sources retained; current official toolkit page checked.
Systemspedia and Systems Sciences stewardship
Source guide and approved review role retained. Access rights and invitations are separate.
Winn and Rysenbry practice lineages; CoExplorer and earlier maps
Existing comparator readers retained. Dataset reconciliation and further source-located relations remain queued.
Mortimer practice feedback on purpose, authority and constraints
The Schot exercise asks who sets purposes, who can change rules and what observations could challenge an intervention; this is editorial application, not historical attribution.
Complete private teaching and paper collections; OCAD reading syllabus
Previous public library catalogue remains. A full-text review of every teaching resource and paper is not established by this intake.
Map navigation and stable links
Focused browser verification covers newly added profiles and selected edges. No wider interaction redesign in this content packet.
Myron Rogers workshop
Announcement has no published date or time; included in the reading collection, omitted from timed calendar listings.
Durable public events inbox
Direct access returned 403, but the maintained collection workflow refreshed all four public submissions. Logosofia is accepted as a dated event; Coding Society is classified as reading material. The two earlier published entries remain.
Schot reading and personal reflection
Source-led reading route, typed claims and an explicitly labelled public-service exercise. Private personal notes are not published.
Logosofia showcase submission
Official organiser prose and structured dates agree: 21 October, 18:30–20:15 America/Toronto, hybrid. Calendar preserves the UTC date crossing.
Coding Society special issue submission
Special issue of Information Technology & People, volume 39, issue 6. Bibliographic metadata and the announcement checked; individual articles have not been reviewed. No event date inferred.