Change in Cities, a Case of Change in Systems with Mike Staresinic
This webinar will be hosted by Mike Staresinic, a Consulting and Coaching For Change alumnus.
The Speaker
Mike has held leadership roles in two Washington international affairs organizations, and served the boards of eight nonprofits.Mike’s City50 Project helps cities imagine their futures and create them. What kind of international trading city built for people do you want to live in, in 2050? So far, Kharkiv, Mariupol, and Severodonetsk have engaged the City50 Project to learn from Pittsburgh’s transformation as the USA’s Comeback City from heavy industry to a modern economy in a thriving city, among 20 cities across the globe.
The change agent is willing to look at things from new angles and with new eyes. Panorama offers a fresh look at familiar topics. Armstrong Cork was the world’s largest cork company, the above building is now one of more than 65 historic industrial sites transformed to modern use.
Learning objectives : By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to :-
1. Identify city transformations as a specific type of complex adaptive living system transformation
2. Gain facility with tools and methods that can be developed to understand complexity and interdependence in city systems
3. Understand new dimensions of transformation in the city of your interest
The Session
Change in Cities...A Case of Change in Systems“Nathan Coleman was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident at age 18. In Pittsburgh, tens of thousands of patients are informed when medical research relevant to them is underway. Nathan signed up for research that now has his brain controlling a robotic arm. In November 2018, the New Yorker Robotic Arm Controlled by the Mind reveals the catalytic power of collaboration underway in cities across sectors in medical, education, and technology research.https://video.newyorker.com/watch/a-robotic-arm-controlled-by-the-mind”
Our tCL colleague Mike Staresinic has worked with organizations, coalitions, in over 60 cities and 40 countries. In his work he has encountered interesting and courageous people and daunting challenges. He will share his experience and reflections of using CANVAS tools in his work with cities’ transformation, in the City50 Project he founded.
What kind of internationally connected trading city for people do you want to live in, in 2050? Mike asks this question in different permutations to thousands of people to help build a shared vision of the future. Using Pittsburgh as a case study of transformation from a heavy industry, heavily-polluted city to a modern mixed economy with a high quality of life, Mike will share tools he developed and uses to help cities reimagine their futures and create change to do so:
- Paired Dimensions: Catalyze Thinking in Complexity
- Cities for People: Civic Participation Drives the Quality of Transformation
- The Globe Theater: A Map of the City’s International Connections
- Engage the System Through the Organization – Organizational Development
- Visual Literacy – Develop Personal Vision as a skill
Mike will bring illustrative experiences from his current work connecting cities in Ukraine and Pittsburgh, notably a project to map city-to-city relationships.
Oxford 2019 Conference
Welcome to the tCL Oxford 2019 Autumn conference from 20-22 September 2019. The conference was held at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford at Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP, UK
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Re-imagining Work
From rapid adoption of automation and AI technologies to demographic shifts and different consumer pulls, the world is changing at a rapid pace and with it the workplace, the workforce and the nature of work itself. We speak of the 4th industrial revolution or the 3rd cognitive revolution; a new era that has fundamentally altered the way we live, work and relate to one another. Yet, as billions of people connect around the world, social inequality is on the rise with the widening gap between rich and poor. Today, we face a future of unlimited possibilities and gruelling uncertainties. New modes of employment are on the rise, with gig, sharing, or platform economies; Progressive models of organising are gaining in popularity with the move from hierarchy to wirearchy and a marked emphasis on horizontalism, self-management and agility. What’s more, the traditional boundaries between home and office, night and day, work and leisure are blurring…
What does the future hold?
In this dynamic landscape, this conference will be the space to engage around the various facets of work through a critical and reflective lens. Together, we will re-imagine the future of work, how it will be organised, and our very own current approaches.
We will tackle the following questions:
- How will work be organised in the future and how will that shape our organisations?
- What is the meaning of work, and can we imagine it beyond success, recognition and personal achievement?
- How can people be better equipped for that future? What are their most relevant assets and skills and how can we grow them?
- How will these futures affect the practice of leadership and change agency?
- What can we do today to re-imagine and reshape our organisations, our societies and our own work?
he Speakers
We are very fortunate to have academics, researchers and practitioners passionate about reshaping work, organisations and our societies, joining us to facilitate diverse and interactive sessions.
The Conference Book
You will find the detailed conference programme here: tCL Oxford 2019 Conference Book.
Speaker Presentations
Our Speakers have generously given us permission to share their slides. Members can access them here.
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