Media Systemics is a way of thinking and doing that combines essential elements from philosophy, media theory and cybernetics to help leaders and teams navigate the digital epoch more efficiently.
To propel you up the exponential learning curve we are radically shortcutting the route to autonomy, discovery, and creative play.
Using intuitive models drawn from communication and adaptation processes inherent to all living organisms—and shared by machines—we recognize patterns across the history of technological change and its social effects.
From these insights as tools, we design human-centered systems in which response-ability emerges through learning by design.
#HERE’S HOW:
We created our comprehensive learning framework to enhance organizational response-ability across various domains such as:
01> Communications
02> Management
03> Entrepreneurship
04> Research and development
05> Art & production
06> Ethical design
Constructed for your convenience, Media Systemics Protocol consists of 5 complementary and autonomous Modules made of five 1-hour Blocks.
Each Module equips organizations and individuals with a fundamental understanding and versatile tools for attaining response-ability, the ability to respond to change by adapting ethically:
MODULE_0:
Response-able Communication:
The Genesis Module [6 blocks/hrs]
The art and science of response-able communication distilled. Craft your identity, forge your response. For communicators, i.e. everyone.
MODULE_1:
Response-able Media Systems:
Beyond Message [5 blocks/hrs]
Media dissected, redefined, and mastered. For creators, art managers, advertisers and storytellers.
MODULE_2:
Response-able Management:
Complexity Riders [5 blocks/hrs]
Management reimagined through the cybernetic lens. For strategists, visionaries, and leaders.
MODULE_3:
Response-able System Model:
The Shape of Systems to Come [5
blocks/hrs
Dive into the operational matrix. For architects of change, designers of tomorrow
MODULE_4:
Response-able System Design:
Design Destiny [5 blocks/hrs]
Ethical systems, built to last. For innovators, guardians, and pioneers.
For optimal performance and full-spectrum governance we recommend installing the entire Media Systemics Protocol (Modules: 0-1-2-3-4).
To rapidly onboard teams and integrate MSP effectively combine The Genesis Module with another one(s) of your choice, all Modules are interoperable and multipurpose.
The Genesis Module
We’re moving beyond talking about communication to discover the DNA of dialogue and identity..
This is the bedrock on which everything else stands, the root platform designed for response-ability.
- All in One: Unfolding the MSP Schema [the map of change]
- Communication Technologies I & II [a very brief history of disruptions: speech, writing, alphabet, print, telegraph, radio, television, internet]
- Response-able Communication Model [features, functions, structure, and ethics of communication]
- Response-able Organization Model [corporate identity formation, dialogical self model, response-able organization, reputation, and the ACID test]
- Communication Field Design [workshop]
Management, Marketing, PR, Communication Designers, IT Professionals.
This Module provides an integrated communication platform that meets diverse organizational needs.
It enhances skills in change and disruption management, ethical communication practices, and reputation development, offering a comprehensive solution for internal and external communication field design.
Beyond Message
Beyond mere exploration; it’s a revolution.
- What are Media? [when we talk about media, what are we talking about?]
- Media as Extensions [understanding human augmentations]
- Media is the Message [making the invisible visible]
- Media are Systems [welcome to the age of systems]
- The Laws of Media [McLuhan’s tetrad, the tool for gaining insight into human artifacts]
Media Professionals, Communication Strategists, Art & Production Teams, IT Professionals.
Enhances media literacy and strategic management using McLuhan’s Tetrad to predict and analyze media impacts.
It fosters an effective yet response-able use of technology in various contexts and industries.
Complexity Riders
We’re not ruling; we’re unshackling — with rules.
This is where chaos meets order, complexity is curated, and leaders of the future are born.
- History and Origin of Cybernetics [science crafted for a healthy human/machine relationship]
- Basic Cybernetic Concepts I [black box/environment, feedback/feedforward, homeostat]
- Basic Cybernetic Concepts II [homeostasis/homeorhesis, autopoiesis, complexity/variety, decentralization]
- The Law of Requisite Variety [the underlying law of system management]
- Response-able Variety Management [workshop]
Executives, Managers across all levels, IT Professionals.
Teaches cybernetics principles applicable to management, promoting adaptive management skills suitable for complex system navigation and development.
Provides a measurable method for managing variety and complexity, tailor-fitted to your organization.
The Shape of Systems to Come
Here, the Viable System Model steps beyond a simple framework; it becomes the future cast into the present.
We’re engineering harmony between innovation and sustainability, crafting an organization model that is resilient, responsive, response-able — and staying well ahead of change.
- Introduction to the Viable System Model [liberating the movement of hands]
- The Operational Domain [System 1]
- Inside & Now [System 2 + 3]
- Outside & Then [System 4]
- The Metasystem [System 5]
Senior Management, Strategic Planners, IT Professionals.
Introduces the Viable System Model, enhancing skills in operational management and strategic foresight.
Focuses on requisite variety management — teaching how to effectively balance internal capabilities with external challenges and opportunities to maintain organizational stability and adaptability.
Design Destiny
Yes, we’re crafting systems — but also legacies. Systems designed to endure, empower, and excel.
Here, ethical design is animated with every decision and every innovation, embodying the balance between freedom and function.
- Kybernethik [Ashby’s Ethical Regulator: introduction]
- Defining the System [about wholes and parts, CATWOE / TASCOI]
- System 1 [the elementary echelon]
- System 2 + 3 + 4 [the art of regulation]
- System 5 [ethical identity]
Senior Management, Strategic Planners, System Designers, IT Managers, Operations Managers.
Focuses on system design principles with a strong emphasis on ethical regulation and system management.
Includes practical application in response-able system design and development, equipping participants with the tools to create and manage adaptable and resilient systems within their organizations.
