Fwd: Complexity & Community Sustainability Seminar for Faculty, Staff, Students & Community

"Pinto, Allison" <APinto@fmhi.usf.edu> wrote:

COMPLEXITY & COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY

BROWNBAG / SEMINAR

 

SPRING 2008

Wednesdays, 12 – 2

FMHI MHC 1503

 

You are invited to participate in a brownbag seminar that is designed to provide opportunities for USF faculty, staff and students, as well as other interested individuals in local USF-affiliated communities, to come together from a variety of disciplines, departments and sectors to generate knowledge about how the theory and science of complexity can inform the development of sustainable communities.

 

Students may choose to register for 1 - 3 USF credits of MHS 6900-902, CRN#19432 to correspond with their participation in this seminar. 

 

The seminar is hosted by the Complexity & Community Sustainability Initiative, which is funded by the USF Interdisciplinary Initiative on Sustainable Communities and also supported through resources provided by the other institutional partners of the Initiative, which include:  the Children's Board of Hillsborough County, MacDill Air Force Base Family Advocacy & Outreach Program, SCOPE (a community organization in Sarasota) and the Sarasota County Government. 

 

Further details are included in the attached schedule / syllabus, and a preliminary schedule is provided below.

 

If you have questions or would like further information, please feel free to contact Heather Curry, Graduate Assistant with the Initiative, at hrcurry@gmail.com or 813-480-4787. 

 

Hope to see you soon!

 

Week	Date	Topic	Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s)
1	Jan 9	"Wanna Co-create?"—Orientation for Student Participants in the Brownbag Seminar	Facilitators:  Doug Uzzell, Ph.D. & Heather Curry
2	Jan 16	Complexity-Informed Approaches to Developing a Learning Community – Official Start Up for 2008	Facilitators:  Allison Pinto, Ph.D. & Fred Steier, Ph.D.
3	Jan 23	Working with our Local Communities in Earnest:  Preliminary Efforts to Understand Hillsborough & Sarasota Counties as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)	Presenters: Members of 2007 HC & SRQ Communiplexity Teams   Facilitator: Gregory Teague, Ph.D.
	Jan 26 (Sat)	Using Storymodeling and the Cynefin Model to Understand and Support Communities as CAS	Presenter: Dave Snowden Cognitive-Edge, U.K.  / Singapore
4	Jan 30	Complexity-Informed Approaches to Social Network Analysis for Cultivating Community Sustainability	Presenters:  John-Willy Bakke & Tom-Erik Julsrud: Telenor R&D, Oslo, Norway; Andreas Soyland:  Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
5	Feb 6	Sensemaking in Organizational Life   (Dates, time & location:  Feb 4 – 8, 3:30 – 6:00 p.m., BSN 231)	Presenter:  Karl Weick, Ph.D. Northwestern U.
6	Feb 13	"Whose Business is Community Sustainability, Anyway?"	Facilitator:  Walter Nord, Ph.D.
7	Feb 20	A Capital Investments Approach to Communities as CAS Community Partners:  Dr. Gorski is the Director of Program Impact and Innovation, as well as Research and Evaluation:  Children's Board of Hillsborough County.  Major Navarro (Ret.) is the Director of Family Advocacy and Outreach at MacDill Air Force Base.	Presenters: Peter Gorski, M.D., M.P.A.   John Navarro, L.C.S.W., Major (Ret.), USAF
8	Feb 25 - 27	A "Maybe" Approach to Communities as CAS (Location:  Westside C)	Presenter:  Michael Quinn Patton, Ph.D.
9	March 5	An Asset-Based Approach to Communities as CAS Community Partners: Mr. Dutton is the Executive Director of SCOPE, an innovative non-profit organization that exists to cultivate communities in Sarasota County.  Ms. Scott is the Deputy County Administrator in Sarasota County.	Presenters:  Tim Dutton. M.S.  & Susan Scott   Facilitator: Mike Gibbons, Ph.D.
10	March 12	SPRING BREAK – no meeting
11	March 19	Where Are We Now?  -- Reflecting on the Evolution of the Communiplexity Learning Community to Date…	Facilitators: Allison Pinto, Ph.D., Fred Steier, Ph.D. & Doug Uzzell, Ph.D.
12	March 26	A Complexity Perspective on the University Community (Location:  Westside C)	Presenters:  Mike Gibbons, Ph.D. Greg Teague, Ph.D. & Fred Steier, Ph.D.
13	April 2	How the Arts Support Communities as CAS	Facilitators: Tim Dutton, M.P.A. Greg Teague, Ph.D. Fred Steier, Ph.D.
14	April 9	How Architecture & Design Support Communities as CAS (to begin at 11:30 a.m.)	Facilitator:  Trent Green, M.Arch.
15	April 16	How Technology Influences Communities as CAS	Facilitators: Bruce Neubauer, Ph.D. Doug Uzzell, Ph.D.
16	April 23	Where are We Now?  -- Reflecting on the Evolution of the Communiplexity Learning Community to Date… (Location:  Westside C)	Facilitators: Allison Pinto, Ph.D., Fred Steier, Ph.D., Heather Curry & David Lee