Information-Sharing Synergies Workshop
Please see Information-Sharing Synergy Workshop outcomes
Agenda for Friday 18th May 2007
This was the second of Four Synergy Workshops
- The previous workshop was our Data-Sharing Synergies workshop
Previous talks on Synergy
- see Phil Jones's talk on Data-Sharing Synergies
- see Batel's talk on Information-Sharing Synergies
- see Mathilda's talk on Knowledge-Sharing Synergies
- see Jae Mather's talk on Wisdom-Sharing Synergies
- We invited 8 experts to help us:
1) to define information
2) to look for synergies in systems that share it.
What is the role of Synergy?
- The m21 project seeks a viable alternative to ecological design
- By creating tools for metadesign we hope to generate synergy.
- As synergy was a vague concept we created 4 Orders of Synergy
Other examples of synergy
1) Linear / predictable synergies
- synergies that arise as a result of additive phenomena.
- An aggregation of certain components or certain conditions that, in the end, result in a new situation.
- For example, a big group of organisms is able to do things that a smaller one cannot.
2) Emergent / unpredictable synergies
- synergies that arise out of a merging between 2 or more parts
- These may result in an unexpected new situation with its own distinctive characteristics.
- A symphony orchestra is an example.
3) Phase transition / Tipping point synergies
- Synergies that arise out of abrupt changes of state.
- Examples may be the crystallization of water or seed germination.
4) Augmented / Dynamic synergies
- Synergies that emerge from a dynamic, cooperative process.
- Emperor penguins, for example, huddle together in order to keep warm.
What is information?
- Peter Corning (1995) describes information as that which gives form to data
- Information is the capacity to exercise cybernetic control over the acquisition, disposition and utilisation of matter/energy in, and by, living systems.
- It can only be measured in terms of the results it achieves for specific systems.
- It is always context-specific
Four Teams with Cognitive Styles:
The~~ ~~brown:New knowing Team~~ ~~#0099CC:was coordinated by~~ ~~brown:Mathilda Tham
The~~ ~~#CC9933:Languaging Team~~ ~~#0099CC:was coordinated by~~ ~~#CC9933:Anette Lundebye
The~~ ~~#000066:Envisioning Team~~ ~~#0099CC:was coordinated by~~ ~~#000066:John Backwell
The~~ ~~#339933:Pushing-Doing Team~~ ~~#0099CC:was coordinated by~~ ~~#339933:Hannah Jones
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