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Designing with : a homeopoietic ethic for organizational change
Author(s) -
Rowland Gordon
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.617
Subject(s) - autopoiesis , action (physics) , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , sociology , subject (documents) , focus (optics) , organizational change , psychology , cognitive science , engineering ethics , computer science , philosophy , political science , public relations , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , optics , engineering
Banathy (1996) states that it is ethical to design with others rather than for them. In this essay I explore the distinction from the perspective of complexity science and adopt the view, at least metaphorically, that human individuals and groups are complex creative systems, which under some conditions will self‐organize. I argue that such phenomena are not truly autopoietic, but subject to the influence of their systemic environment, which in human terms may include respectful, caring others. Creating with can be called homeopoietic action and is a primary ethic for evolutionary guidance in many contexts and at many levels. The focus here is on change in organizations. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.