Since the September 28th update, Comprehensivist Wednesdays has organized six events. This update documents seven forthcoming events and collects resources including event descriptions, video, and essays from the six most recent past events.
Seven Forthcoming Events
In order to RSVP to attend these events, you must join either the 52 Living Ideas meetup or the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society meetup. Joining either group will require joining Meetup.com which is a free on-line service with strong privacy controls. Once you are a member, you can RSVP to join the event from the link to its Event Page.
- Wed 28 October 2020 9@PM (New York time): Systems Thinking by Russell Ackoff (Event Page at Thinking Society). Exploring the ideas of this systems thinking pioneer. Excellent resources are in the full event description.
- Sat 31 October 2020 2:30@PM (New York time): Synergy: Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Exploring one of Bucky’s central ideas from “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”
- Sun 1 November 2020 2:30@PM (New York time): Event on Polymaths with Dr. Angela Cotellessa Check the 52 Living Ideas calendar in a few days for the not-yet-available event description
- Wed 4 November 2020 9@PM (New York time): To Be Determined
- Sat 7 November 2020 2:30@PM (New York time): Topic on Buckminster Fuller’s “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”: Details to be determined
- Wed 11 November 2020 9@PM (New York time): To Be Determined
- Wed 18 November 2020 9@PM (New York time): The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley
The Six Most Recent Past Events including video links and essays
- 30 September 2020: Polymath Power with Michael Araki (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 14 October 2020: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- This topic was based on the 1969 book “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” by R. Buckminster Fuller. This event inspired Shrikant to organize a whole series to explore Bucky’s book in more depth.
- Essay on The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller
- Video (1h 41m): “The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller”
- 17 October 2020: Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth—1&2: The Great Pirates (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 21 October 2020: Neuroscience of Mindfulness: Its Powers and Limits (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society
- 24 October 2020: General Systems Theory: Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
- 25 October 2020: Systems Engineering and You with Tom Gilb (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas)
About Comprehensivist Wednesdays
Comprehensivist Wednesdays is an on-going series of weekly events designed to foster the art of comprehensivity, the state or quality of considering with ever increasing depth and breadth more and more of Humanity’s great traditions of inquiry and action to better comprehend how our worlds work and how they change so we can live more effective lives. Buckminster Fuller described the approach as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
The series is being organized by emcee Shrikant Rangnekar of 52 Living Ideas in collaboration with CJ Fearnley of Collaborating for Comprehensivism and the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society. There is a YouTube playlist with all videos from the “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” series (click here).
Collaborating for Comprehensivism is an emerging initiative to energize humanity’s collective intelligence through collaborations that facilitate incrementally the formation of ever broader and deeper understandings of our worlds and its peoples.
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Addendum: Other Comprehensivist Wednesday's Series News Releases
- “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” begins 15 July 2020 @9-11PM EDT
- August 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- September 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- October 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- November 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- December 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- January 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- March 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- April 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- June 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
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