Resources
Here you’ll find a variety of resources around topics and ideas
related to the work of Syntony Quest. This section of our site represents
a continuously expanding knowledge base that informs and supports our
work. We share them here in the hope that they may also enhance your learning
and design initiatives.
For further information or inquiries related to these resources, please contact us at info@syntonyquest.org
Never
in the history of the planet has there been such an enormous range of
possible futures than those we face today. These range from total catastrophe
on the one hand to images of a much better world than what we have now,
with stable peace, diminishing poverty, stronger communities, and a greater
realization of the human potential than we have known in the past. Unless
we think such a better world is possible, it will not happen.
- Kenneth Boulding
Evolutionary Learning Community | Evolutionary
Systems Design |
Evolutionary Development | Sustainable
Business |
Systems Thinking | Lifelong
Learning | Conversation |
Democracy | Future-Makers |
Art with Conscience
Evolutionary Learning Community
Syntony Quest: Creating Evolutionary Learning Communities
An interview with Alexander and Kathia Laszlo in
Patterns: The ASCD Systems Thinking and Chaos Theory Network Newsletter, November 1997.
Syntony Quest itself was conceived and created as an Evolutionary Learning Community. Learn more about the inspiration and vision that the founders of Syntony Quest infused in their organization.
A Better World: Creating Learning Communities in Mexico.
An executive report on the experience of creating Evolutionary Learning Community in two urban neighborhoods in Monterrey, Mexico.
Evolutionary Learning
Community: A participatory and co-creative exploration of educational
images for a sustainable and evolutionary future
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
An executive report of the doctoral dissertation submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Science. Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, 2000.
What is Evolutionary Learning Community?
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
Unpublished manuscript.
Co-Creating
Learning Communities in Mexico: Preparing the ground for Evolutionary
Learning Community
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
Published in Miller, Ron (Ed.) (2000) Creating Learning Communities: Models, resources, and new ways of thinking about teaching and learning. New York: Solomon Press.
Learning
to Become: Creating Evolutionary Learning Community through Evolutionary
Systems Design
By Kathia and Alexander Laszlo.
Published in Miller, Ron (Ed.) (2000) Creating Learning Communities: Models, resources, and new ways of thinking about teaching and learning. New York: Solomon Press.
Learning, Design, and Action:
Creating the conditions for Evolutionary Learning Community.
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science (Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.), Vol. 18, No. 5. For reprints of the published version visit Wiley’s website at www.interscience.wiley.com.
Partners in Life: Syntony
at work
By Kathia and Alexander Laszlo
Published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Asilomar Conversation on the Comprehensive Design of Societal Systems. International Systems Institute. Pacific Grove, CA, November 1997.
Evolutionary Systems Design
Fostering Design Competencies:
Empathizing with and enhancing individual and collective self-development
capacities.
By Alexander Laszlo
Proceedings of the Sixth International Fuschl Conversation of the International Systems Institute, Fuschl, Austria, 1992.
Evolutionary Systems Design:
Way beyond the two cultures
By Alexander Laszlo
Proceedings of the Conversation on the Comprehensive Redesign of Societal Systems, International Systems Institute, Pacific Grove, CA, 1996
The Epistemological Foundations
of Evolutionary Systems Design
By Alexander Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science (Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.), Vol. 18 No. 4 For reprints of the published version visit Wiley’s website at www.interscience.wiley.com.
The Evolution of Evolutionary
Systems Design
By Alexander Laszlo and Kathia Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in World Futures (Copyright © 2002 Taylor & Francis), Vol. 58, No. 6-7. For reprints of the published version visit Taylor & Francis’s website at www.taylorandfrancis.com.
Global Challenges
and Human Opportunities: The Path of Evolutionary Systems Design
By Kathia Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in Advances in Systems Science and Applications Vol. 1, No. 1., June 2001.
A Soft Technology
for Evolutionary Learning
By Alexander Laszlo and Kathia Laszlo
Unpublished manuscript.
Evolutionary Development
Evolving Development:
An evolutionary perspective on development for an interconnected world
By Kathia Laszlo, Alexander Laszlo, Marcia Campos and Carlos Romero.
This is a preprint of an article published in World Futures (Copyright © 2003 Taylor & Francis), Vol. 59, No. 2. For reprints of the published version visit Taylor & Francis’s website at www.taylorandfrancis.com.
The role of Evolutionary Learning
Community in Evolutionary Development: The unfolding of a line of
inquiry.
By Kathia and Alexander Laszlo
Published in the Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Crete, Greece, July 2003.
Creating human and
social capital for developing the global learning society: Toward
an educational model for graduate business education.
By Kathia Laszlo and Alexander Laszlo
Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Kansai, Japan, July 2002. A version of this paper was invited for publication in the book Rethinking Science Systems and Innovation Policies, edited by Contzen, Jean-Pierre; Gibson, David; and Heitor, Manuel. Greenwood Publishers.
Education for Development:
Willing to walk the talk?
By Kathia Laszlo and Alexander Laszlo
Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Monterrey, Mexico, June 2003. Submitted for publication in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
Evolutionary Development:
Sustainability… and Beyond!
By Alexander Laszlo and Kathia Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in World Futures (Copyright © 2003 Taylor & Francis), Vol. 58, No. 8. This article is an introduction to this entire issue of World Futures dedicated to Evolutionary Development and guest edited by Alexander and Kathia Laszlo. For reprints of the published version visit Taylor & Francis’s website at www.taylorandfrancis.com.
Conocimiento y aprendizaje
(Knowledge and learning)
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
An editorial published in the Mexican newspaper El Norte, June 3, 2002. This article is in Spanish.
Curar la ignorancia
(A cure for ignorance)
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
An editorial published in the Mexican newspaper El Norte, September 13, 2002. This article is in Spanish.
Evolving Knowledge for Development
Sustainable business
Evolving Knowledge
for Development: The role of Knowledge Management in a changing world
By Kathia and Alexander Laszlo
This research paper won a prize on Social Innovation and Sustainable Development offered by the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, May 2002.
This is a preprint of the article published in the Journal of Knowledge Management, Special Issue on Knowledge-Based Development. Vol. 6, No. 4, October 2002, © MCB UP Limited. For reprints of the published version visit Emerald Publishers’s website at www.emeraldinsight.com.
The Innovation Process
in Education for Sustainable Business
By Gifford Pinchot III, Halim Dunsky, Douglas Paxton, Kathia Laszlo and
Alexander Laszlo
Paper presented at the BELL Conference (World Resource Institute), June 2003. Submitted for publication in Corporate Environmental Strategy: International Journal of Corporate Sustainability.
SEA: Strategic Evolutionary Advantage
By Alexander Laszlo
Published in the Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Crete, Greece, July 2003.
The Evolution of Business:
Learning, Innovation, and Sustainability in the 21st Century
By Kathia Castro Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in World Futures (Copyright © 2003 Taylor & Francis), Vol. 59, No. 8. For reprints of the published version visit Taylor & Francis’s website at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com.
Systems Thinking
Glossary of Terms
Prepared and edited by Alexander Laszlo
A contribution for the 47 Meeting of the International Society of the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Crete, Greece, July 2003.
Systems theories: Their
origins, foundations, and development [SystemsTheory.pdf]
By Alexander Laszlo and Stanley Krippner
Manuscript version. Published in J.S. Jordan (Ed.), Systems theories and a priori aspects of perception. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 1998.
Dimensions of Systems Thinking
By Kathia Laszlo
Unpublished manuscript
The Contribution
of the Systems Sciences to the Humanities
By Ervin Laszlo and Alexander Laszlo
This is a preprint of an article published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science (Copyright © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.), Vol. 14 No. 1 For reprints of the published version visit Wiley’s website at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/.
Systems Science:
Creating the conditions for conscious evolution.
By Kathia Castro Laszlo.
Prepublication version. An edited version of this paper was published in W.V. van Huyssteen (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, © 2003.
Lifelong learning
A format to define your personal learning goals and strategies… a tool to make a learning commitment with yourself.
A diagram that represents the increasing complexity, integration, subjectivity, and systemic nature of learning and meaning creation processes.
Personal Design
By Alexander Laszlo
A guide for engaging in the personal design of your life. Excerpt from the book manuscript by Alexander Laszlo, Evolving with Heart, Dancing the Path of Syntony.
Creating
Learning Communities: Models, resources, and new ways of thinking
about teaching and learning
By the Coalition for Self-Learning
The whole book, edited by Ron Miller and published by the Foundation for Educational Renewal (Solomon Press, 2000) is available online. Chapters cover aspects related to schools as learning communities, learning in the community, technological perspectives, and philosophical roots of the movement toward self-directed collaborative learning.
Conversation
The Art of Conversation: Ideas and Guidelines [Conversation.pdf]
Adapted by Kathia Laszlo
Some rules, ideas and guidelines for how to engage in conversations that involve true listening and building bridges of understanding.
A quick guide to organize conversations using the World Café methodology (produced by The World Café Community). For more information, visit their website at www.theworldcafe.com
The Conditions for
Thriving Conversations
By Kathia and Alexander Laszlo.
Preprint version. For publication in B.H. Banathy & P.M. Jenlink (Eds.), Dialogue as a Means for Collective Communication. New York: Klwuer Press, in press, 2003.
The making of a new culture:
Learning conversations and design conversations in social evolution
By Alexander and Kathia Laszlo
Manuscript version. For publication in the second volume of B.H. Banathy & P.M. Jenlink (Eds.), Dialogue as a Means for Collective Communication.
The International Systems Institute (ISI) has sponsored design conversations for over 20 years on topics related to the comprehensive redesign of educational and societal systems.
Another version of the emergent approaches for engaging people in “Big Talk”
Another successful group process for engaging people in collaborative and creative explorations.
A compilation of interesting dialogue resources on the web.
Democracy
The
New State
By Mary Parker Follet
To learn more about the work of Mary Parker Follet (1868-1933) and its relevance on today’s world, visit The Mary Parker Follet Foundation website
Future-Makers
A guide for parents, teachers and youth interested in creating Future-Makers communities.
Art with Consciousness
The Evolutionary
Role of Art
By Kathia Laszlo
Unpublished manuscript.
El Camino
By Gerardo Lenin, Gregorio Rivera, Victor Castro, and Alexander and Kathia
Laszlo.
A creative “newspaper” that presents many thought and action provoking ideas on society through art.
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