Fred Emery Oration : systems thinking (and action) FROM the new millennium : learning from the future

Richard Bawden

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Abstract

![CDATA[Fred Emery, was an amazingly perceptive and prescient systems scientist, who was, without a shadow of a doubt, the father of the systems movement down here in the antipodes, to which he returned in the 1970s after a very distinguished career at the Tavistock Research Institute in London. He had a prime interest in the nature of work and in particular in how people organised themselves and the machines and other resources with which they worked, to achieve their goals and maintain their ideals and values, in the face of what he recognised as often “turbulent environments”. I first met him at the Australian National University soon after his return, when I was involved as a participant in one of his Search Conferences. His was an unforgettable illustration of theory in practice, walking his talk with all the confidence that long experience and scholarship together can bring. Over subsequent years, our paths would cross from time to time, either in the context of other Searches, or in dialogue about systems education, which was a topic about which, it would be fair to say, we both had obsessive tendencies!]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society and the 5th Australian and New Zealand Systems Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, July 20-23, 1999
PublisherANZSYS
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)0967291402
Publication statusPublished - 1999
EventAustralian and New Zealand Systems Conference -
Duration: 20 Jul 1999 → …

Conference

ConferenceAustralian and New Zealand Systems Conference
Period20/07/99 → …

Keywords

  • education, higher
  • Emery, Fred
  • system theory

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