Resources
The following books and articles have been recommended by ISI fellows as useful resources for learning about social systems design and about the social, cultural, philosophical, and scientific inquiries that have a bearing upon design and conscious evolution.
Topics
- Social Systems Design and Evolutionary Guidance
- Journal Articles Bela H. Banathy
Top 15 Books Related to Social Systems Design and Evolutionary Guidance
The following are recommended reading for the development of "design literacy" and the fostering of evolutionary consciousness. This list is by no means comprehensive; there are many other works related to systems thinking, participative design, democracy, and guided societal evolution. However, the works listed will provide an excellent starting point from several diverse perspectives.
Banathy, Bela H. Designing Social Systems in a Changing World. London, New York: Plenum, 1996.
Banathy, Bela H. Systems Design of Education. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, 1991
Banathy, Bela H. Guided Societal Evolution: A Systems View. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000.
Bausch, Kenneth C. The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
Bohm, David. On Dialogue. New York, London: Routledge, 1996.
Chaisson, Eric. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Checkland, Peter. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. (With 30-Year Retrospective). New York: Wiley, 1999.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. The Evolving Self. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
Elgin, Duane. Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1993.
Hubbard, Barbara Marx. Conscious Evolution. Novato, CA: New World Library, 1998.
Jantsch, Erich. Design for Evolution. New York: George Brazilier, 1975.
Laszlo, Alexander. The Syntony Quest: Evolutionary Vision for Change In Your World. [Pending, 2002. Manuscript available from author upon request.]
Laszlo, Ervin. Vision 2020: Reordering Chaos for Global Survival. Berkshire, New York: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, 1994.
Salk, Jonas. Anatomy of Reality: The Merging of Intuition and Reason. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Warfield, John N. A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity Through Systems Design. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1994.
Journal Articles by ISI Founder Bela H. Banathy
"Developing a Systems View of Education." Educational Technology, May-June 1995, pp. 53-57.
"Comprehensive Systems Design in Education." Educational Technology, July-August, 1994, pp. 32-34.
"Is the Improvement of the Human Condition Our Field? Making Evolutionary Science Work for Human Betterment." World Futures 38, 1993, pp. 17-31.
"From Evolutionary Consciousness to Guided Evolution." World Futures 36, 1993, pp.73-79.
"The Design of Evolutionary Guidance Systems." Systems Research 6:4, 1989, pP. 289-295.
"We Enter the Twenty-First Century with Schooling Designed in the Nineteenth." Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 18:4, July/August 2001, pp. 287-90.
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