The 2015 International Conference on the Science of Dialogic Design: Symposia for Scientists and Practitioners: Difference between revisions

==From the Club of Rome to the Digital Era==

For the last 40 plus years there have been probably more than 1,000 applications of [[Structured Dialogic Design Process|SDDP]] in [[Co-Laboratories of Democracy]] staged in a variety of settings around the world.  For example in Cyprus, the location of this Symposion (it is a Greek word meaning drinking together), we have a history of more than 15 years of applications and more than 100 colaboratories with government agencies, such as the Ministries of Finance, Transportation, Interior, and many others, as well as bi-communal colabs involving Greek and Turkish Cypriots addressing issues of conflict resolution and peace building on the island of Aphrodite.

The first test of the [[Interpretive Structural Modeling]] (ISM) algorithm, developed by [[John N. Warfield|John Warfield]]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Warfield John Warfield in Wikipedia</ref> in 1971, was conducted by [[Dave Malone]] and [[Aleco Christakis]] on the table top of Warfield’s office at the Battelle Columbus Laboratories in Ohio, USA.  The first application of [[Interpretive Structural Modeling|ISM]] with real people was conducted by Brother Raymond Fitz, who later on became the President of the University of Dayton, with the City Council of Dayton in 1973.  There is a video of this ISM session with the members of the city council deliberating on setting budget priorities for allocating the city revenue.  The first Center for Interactive Management was established by Warfield and Christakis at the University of Virginia in 1982, and was moved to George Mason University in 1984.  The first consultancy employing the Interactive Management methodology, a predecessor of SDD, was established by Christakis in Philadelphia in 1989, and it worked for 25 years with more than 50 clients in government agencies, corporations, foundations, and NGOs.  The Institute for 21st Century Agoras was founded by Dr. Ken Bausch and Aleco Christakis in 2002, in preparation for the 2003 International conference of ISSS (www.ISSS.org) in Crete, when Christakis was serving as President of the systems society met Yiannis Laouris for the first time.  Soon there after Laouris established the Future Worlds Center who emerged as a leader in the evolution of SDD.

The purpose of this very timely symposion in Cyprus is not to revisit the history of the past 40 plus years, but to create the history of the future on the foundation of past history.  The community of scientists and practitioners of the [[Science of Dialogic Design]] has now expanded to include people from all parts of the world and a variety of languages and cultures.  This dedicated community of scientists will gather for the first time in this symposion for a whole week, and will deliberate formally and informally on how to evolve the process and retain its scientific credibility together with its cultural sensitivity.