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TRACK SEVEN
Whole Systems in Action
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Track Chair: Jamie Wolf, Wolfworks, Inc., Robert Leaver
Conference Room:
Resilience Planning: The Whole Difference
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Wednesday, March 11
Session Chair: Robert Leaver
Session Speakers: Fred Presley, Everett Hyde
This is a primer on resilience planning and practical experiences of local planning. Elements of ecology, economics, built environment, education, social and cultural networks are all addressed together as interdependent elements of the system. The Resilience planning process teaches participants to see their ‘place’ as a complex adaptive system that is directly related to other complex adaptive systems at multiple scales. Every ten years our communities are required to produce a plan of conservation and development or a Comprehensive Plan with the input and participation of community members – Resilience can make this process more whole.
Local Economies in Practice: Reports from the field
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 11
Session Chair: Robert Leaver
Session Speakers: John Abrams, Justin Good
This will serve as “chapter two” of the resilience planning session – with Chester, CT; and Martha’s Vineyard, MA; Provincetown, MA; Providence, RI; as case studies. The presenters will share what’s been happening in the “case communities”. We will learn together what we can do to be more engaged in our communities. Themes: What defines a local living economy? What is the significance of such concepts as regional trading zones, import substitution, and economic leakage? Entrepreneurship as an agent of change?
The Cosmology of Beauty: Aesthetics is The New Ethics
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Wednesday, March 11
Session Chairs: Amelia Amon
Session Speakers: Justin Good, Hans Lohse
Cultural sustainability is about evolving a new understanding of humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Modernism's perspective on nature is autistic, as are its concepts of beauty and good design. Sustainability and beauty are the same systemic condition viewed from reciprocal directions in the flow of energy-information-awareness. The essence of a coherent system is a high degree of life or wholeness -its activity sustains the systems around it and those it contains. Beauty is not just cosmetic, it is cosmological.
Getting the System in the Room: Integrated Design in Real Time
8:30 AM - 10:00 PM Thursday, March 12
Session Chair: Jamie Wolf.
Session Speakers: Paul Lipke, Bill Reed
This engaging session will assemble a team for a hypothetical design project using whole systems thinking and an integrated design process. Through interactions with the team and the audience we will explore how the diversity of the team supports robust solutions and effective collaboration. This session includes: working with a reluctant team, working with a willing team that lacks deep experience in integrated design and include practical observations from Paul and Bill’s professional experience.
Generations: Describing a Different World & New Workplace
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Thursday, March 12
Session Chair: Mark Couet
Session Speakers: Ryan Bushey, Susan Coddaire
An emerging generation of committed professionals and students desire a world and workplace that seems, at times, markedly different from what they are inheriting. To realize their passions and goals takes effective mentoring, networking, and true inter-generational transfer of ideas, knowledge, and skill. Exploring these and other important issues, engage in a dynamic conversation in a unique format as this session digs deeper into the interests and values of our professions.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday, March 12
Session Chair: John Abram
Session Speakers: Bill Stillinger, Steven Winter
Employee ownership is becoming an attractive strategy for more young businesses, and as baby boomer business owners consider legacy and succession, aging founders are looking in this direction too. There are diverse approaches; each business must find the way that suits it most. The panelists, whose companies embody different choices and structures, will lead a discussion about the potentials and complexities of employee ownership and workplace democracy, and their relevance to creating a restorative future.
Web 2.0: Strategies for Growing your Business
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Thursday, March 12
Session Chair: Jo Lee
Session Speakers: Michael Silberman
Don't miss this session if you're looking to build your professional network beyond BE 09. Learn from leading Social Media experts how a whole systems approach to communications can help grow your business and a healthier and more vibrant green sector. Find out how web 2.0 tools like forums, social networks and blogs fueled 2008 political campaigns and how it can do the same for the sustainable building and energy businesses like yours.