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Amherst, MA, USA, 1975<br>B.Sc.  Marine Biology & Chemistry, University of Massachusetts
, North Dartmouth, MA, USA, 1973<br>MBA/M.Sc.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995 <br>Ph.D. Neurobiology , Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, CT, USA, 1982
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      |fields= Structured Democratic Dialogue
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      |universities=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wesleyan University
| alma_mater = [[Yale University]]
      |specializations= Invertebrate Physiology, Neurobiolog
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      |socioacademic=
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      |achievements=Co-founder of the science of dialogic design
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|awards    = [[The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Medal]] (2007) <br />DEMOSOPHIA Award (1993)<br /> Creative Programming Award' (1983)
| influences        = [[Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis|Costas Doxiadis]]<br />[[Hasan Özbekhan]] <br />[[John N. Warfield|John Warfield]]
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'''Alexander (Aleco) Christakis''' ({{lang-el|Αλέξανδρος Χρηστάκης}}; 1937, [[Athens]], [[Greece]]) is a [[Greece|Greek]] American [[social scientist]], [[systems scientist]] and [[cyberneticist]], former faculty member of several Universities, organizational consultant and member of the [[Club of Rome]], known for his "study and design of social systems".<ref name = "CWA">[http://www.cwaltd.com/index1.htm?main.htm&2 Biography] Alexander N. Christakis, January 17, 2003.</ref>


== Biography ==
Christakis came to the United States in 1956, and received a BA in [[theoretical physics]] at [[Princeton University]] and a [[Ph.D.]] in theoretical nuclear physics at [[Yale]]. Later on he proceeded studying [[urban planning]], and [[systems science]] until 1970. 


In the 1960s he returned to Greece and joined the architectural firm of [[Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis|Doxiadis Associates]], which was specialized in architecture and town planner. In 1968 he was co-founder of the [[Club of Rome]], where he was a collaborator of [[Aurelio Peccei]], [[Erich Jantsch]] and [[Hasan Özbekhan]]. Since the 1970s Christakis has served on the faculties of [[Yale University]], [[Georgetown University]], [[University of Athens]], and the [[University of Virginia]]. He also spent five years at [[George Mason University]] as the Director of the Center for Interactive Management headed by [[John N. Warfield]]. In 1989 Christakis founded his own management consultancy firm CWA Ltd. dedicated to  apply Interactive Management principles, and he has been CEO ever since.


Christakis serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including ''[[Systems Research and Behavioral Science]]s'', ''Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Science'', and the ''Journal of Applied Systems Studies''.
'''Tom Flanagan''' is president of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]], the umbrella institution responsible for the development of the [[Science of Dialogic Design]] and the monitoring of world-wide [[Structured Dialogic Design Process|SDDP]] application. The [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras|Agoras]] was founded by [[Aleco Christakis]] and has on the Board also  [[Yiannis Laouris]], President of [[Future Worlds Center]]. From his position as President, Tom supports and collaborates intensively with [[Future Worlds Center]].
 
From his position as President, Tom supports and collaborates intensively with [[Future Worlds Center]]. For example, he has been Faculty member and instructor during the [[2nd International SDDP Facilitators Training School|2nd]] and the [[3rd International SDDP Facilitators Training School|3rd]] International SDDP Summer schools.
 
Tom currently serves as a member of the [[N.E.T.S. Board of Trustees]] and [[N.E.T.S. Academic Staff]].


In 2002, Dr. Christakis served as President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]]. He also serves as President of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]],<ref>[http://www.globalagoras.org Global Agoras<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of civic, global, and institutional capacity for coordinated democratic decision-making using systems principles (Co-Laboratories of Democracy.) The Institute for 21st Century Agoras is credited for the formalization of the science of [[Structured dialogic design]] in its present form. Dr. Christakis is also a partner with Dialogic Design International [http://dialogicdesignllc.com] a consulting firm that deploys SDD in systemic design approaches for complex  organizational and systems problems.


In 2007 he served on the Board of Directors of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), of [[Future Worlds Center]] and also as an Advisor to the Ambassadors Program of AIO, which serves indigenous people around the world.<ref>[http://www.AIO.org Americans for Indian Opportunity<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Tom has also published [[The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning]] together with [[Aleco Christakis]]<ref>http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Talking_Point.html?id=vx_Nu3FB_l4C The Talking Point - Amazon Link</ref>


He has received numerous awards and distinctions including the '''DEMOSOPHIA Award'''<ref>By [[John N. Warfield]] awarded in 1993 by Roxana Cardenas during an International Conference at ITESM, which is the most prominent Mexican University System</ref>, the '''Creative Programming Award''' from the National University Continuing Education Association<ref>Awarded in 1983 while Aleco Christakis was teaching at the University of Virginia</ref> and the [[The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Medal|most prestigious medal]] of the [[Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies]] to name a few.
== Short Bio ==
'''Tom Flanagan''' is president of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]].  He is also founder and director of the SouthCoast Community Collaborative Design Studio in Southeastern Massachusetts.  He is a board member and officer of the corporation of the Barrington Public Library, and has serveed on the Barrington School Board, the New Bedford Economic Development Council,  the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Alumni Council, and the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution and Public Collaboration,


==Contributions to international peace building==
Tom’s background includes a doctorate in neurobiology with research, publications and patents from work he has led within academic and corporate R&D groups. His management training from MIT’s Sloan School focused on partnership development.  He has worked in many highly innovative technical teams, and has founded and led non-profit and for profit ventures.  He has taught university students in business management, engineering, chemistry and biology, and he has pioneered an international online course in Democracy and Sustainability.  
Christakis has been invited to support the peace process in Cyprus and the Middle East. He and [[Yiannis Laouris|Laouris]] led the implementation of series of mass scale dialogues using the [[Structured dialogic design]] process in the [[Civil Society Dialogue project in Cyprus]] and in the Act Beyond Borders project in Middle East<ref>[http://www.ActBeyondBorders.net Act Beyond Borders Initiative]</ref>


== Publications ==
Tom’s recent management work has focused on university-industry-government linkages related to sustainable, technology-based regional economic development. His current design mission is tobring democratic design practices that have been validated in many organizations into broad civic use throughout the greater New Bedford area.
Christakis has published over 100 papers on the management of complexity in refereed journals. He is also the co-author of three books on "Technology Assessment". Books:
* 2009. ''The Talking Point:Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning''. With T.R. Flanangan.  Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
* 2006. ''Co-laboratories of democracy: how people harness their collective wisdom to create the future''. With Kenneth C. Bausch. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
* 2005. ''Pragmatic Design Dialogue''.


Articles and papers, a selection:
'''Book Publications'''
* 1970. "[http://quergeist.net/Christakis/predicament.pdf The Predicament of Mankind  Quest for Structured Responses for Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties]". With co-authors like Hasan Özbekhan, Erich Jantsch, Peccei, ...and others (PDF)
 
* 1987. [[John N. Warfield]], and Christakis, A.N. "Dimensionality," Systems Research 4, pp.&nbsp;127–137
• Body Wisdom in Dialogue (TR Flanagan and KC Bausch) Ongoing Emergence Press, Riverdale GA, 2012
* 2004. "[http://quergeist.net/Christakis/RETROSPECTIVE-INQUIRY-Club-of-Rome-Original_Prospectus.pdf Retrospective Inquiry of the predicament of menkind prospectus of the Club of Rome]"
 
* 2009. Interview: ''Learnings and Vistas based on revisiting 40 years of the "Global Problematique"'' [http://sites.google.com/site/21stcenturyagora/sources-club-of-rome/40years-problematique] Interview in [http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/CommunityPosts/tabid/809/PostID/1128/LearningsandVistasbasedonrevisiting40yearsGlobalProblematique.aspx Europe'sWorld] by Heiner Benking [http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Heiner_Benking], November, 2009
• A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures: a workbook for the study of the global problematic (TR Flanagan and KC Bausch) Ongoing Emergence Press, Riverdale GA, 2011
* 2011. Interview: ''The Predicament of the Individual, Communities, and Humankind in the 21st Century''[http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/CommunityPosts/tabid/809/PostID/2711/ThePredicamentoftheIndividualCommunitiesandHumankindinthe21stCentury.aspx] by Heiner Benking [http://www.europesworld.org/NewEnglish/Home_old/PublicProfile/tabid/690/userid/2543/language/en-US/Default.aspx], September 2011
 
• Prologue, TR Flanagan in Body Wisdom: Interplay of Body and Ego (KC Bausch), Ongoing Emergence Press, Riverdale GA, 2010
 
• The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning, (TR Flanagan and AN Christakis), Information Age Publishing, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 2010
 
'''Other Publications'''
 
• K. Weigand, Flanagan, TR, Dye, KMC, and Jones, PH. (2013). Collaborative Foresight in Long-Horizon Planning: Contrasting dialogic and rational planning traditions in R&D strategy. Technological Forecasting & Social Change (in press).
 
• TR Flanagan, (2012). Representation of Systems Views in the Science of Dialogic Design,. in Strategic articulation of actions to cope with the huge challenges of our world today (Reynaldo Trevino-Cisneros and Bethania Arango Hisijara), A Social Systems Approach to Global Problems 1:167-168, Institute of 21st Century Agoras
• http://www.academia.edu/3386273/Strategic_Articulation_of_Actions_to_Cope_with_the_Huge_Challenges_of_our_World_Today
 
• KC Bausch and Flanagan, TR (2013), A Confluence of Third-Phase Science and Dialogic Design Science. Syst. Res.. doi: 10.1002/sres.2166
 
• J McIntyre-Mills, Made, T,, Mackenzie, Bausch, K and Flanagan, T. 2013. An Online Course in Sustainable Democracy: A Group Decision Making Process. Journal of Public Deliberation (under review Manuscript 1168)
 
• K Bausch, Flanagan, TR, McIntyre-Mills, J, Made, T and Mackenzie, K, 2012. Striving for Sustainable Global Democracy Through a Group Decision Making Processes: A Critical Review of an Online Course to Model Transformative Praxis. Journal of Globalization Studies 3(1).
 
• TR Flanagan and AN Christakis, 2011. Referential Transparency for Dialogic Design Science.  International Journal of Applied Systems Science.  (submitted)
 
• T Flanagan, J McIntyre-Mills, T Made, K Mackenzie, C Morse, G Underwood and K Bausch, 2012.  A Systems Approach for Engaging Groups in Global Complexity: Capacity Building Through an Online Course, Systemic Practice and Action Research: 25(2):171-193
 
• K Weigand, PH Jones and TR Flanagan, 2010.  Collaborative Discovery of the Structure of Concerns: Understanding and Navigating Complex Problem Systems. ISSS Abstracts.
 
• H Benking, AN Christakis and TR Flanagan, 2010. Coming to Our Senses: Dimensionality of socio-cultural systems in Organizing collective Wisdom.  Abstract, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Oct. 8-9, 2010.


== References ==
{{reflist}}


== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://quergeist.net/Christakis/ Biography] Alexander N. Christakis, 2003.
* [http://globalagoras.org Institute for 21st Century Agoras]  
* [http://www.cwaltd.com/q76.html Review] Dialogue for the Information Age Democracy, by Alexander N. Christakis, 2005.
* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/trflanagan Flanagan page in Linkedin]
* Institute for 21st Century Agoras [http://globalagoras.org] a non-profit organization founded by Christakis with Kenneth Bausch to promote the pursuit of democratic approaches to collective wisdom and decision making made possible with Co-Laboratories of Democracy.
* [http://dialogicdesignscience.wikispaces.com Wiki managed by world-wide SDD scientists and practitioners]


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==References==
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Latest revision as of 03:43, 2 February 2016

Tom Flanagan
Tom Flanagan
Service type Advisory Board Member
N.E.T.S. Board of Trustees
N.E.T.S. Academic Staff
Degree(s) M.Sc. Invertebrate Physiology, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, USA, 1975
B.Sc. Marine Biology & Chemistry, University of Massachusetts
, North Dartmouth, MA, USA, 1973
MBA/M.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge, MA, USA, 1995
Ph.D. Neurobiology , Wesleyan University, 
Middletown, CT, USA, 1982
Field(s) of Study Structured Democratic Dialogue
University(ies) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wesleyan University
Specialization(s) Invertebrate Physiology, Neurobiolog
Notable Achievements Co-founder of the science of dialogic design




Tom Flanagan is president of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, the umbrella institution responsible for the development of the Science of Dialogic Design and the monitoring of world-wide SDDP application. The Agoras was founded by Aleco Christakis and has on the Board also Yiannis Laouris, President of Future Worlds Center. From his position as President, Tom supports and collaborates intensively with Future Worlds Center.

From his position as President, Tom supports and collaborates intensively with Future Worlds Center. For example, he has been Faculty member and instructor during the 2nd and the 3rd International SDDP Summer schools.

Tom currently serves as a member of the N.E.T.S. Board of Trustees and N.E.T.S. Academic Staff.


Tom has also published The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning together with Aleco Christakis[1]

Short Bio

Tom Flanagan is president of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras. He is also founder and director of the SouthCoast Community Collaborative Design Studio in Southeastern Massachusetts. He is a board member and officer of the corporation of the Barrington Public Library, and has serveed on the Barrington School Board, the New Bedford Economic Development Council, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Alumni Council, and the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution and Public Collaboration,

Tom’s background includes a doctorate in neurobiology with research, publications and patents from work he has led within academic and corporate R&D groups. His management training from MIT’s Sloan School focused on partnership development. He has worked in many highly innovative technical teams, and has founded and led non-profit and for profit ventures. He has taught university students in business management, engineering, chemistry and biology, and he has pioneered an international online course in Democracy and Sustainability.

Tom’s recent management work has focused on university-industry-government linkages related to sustainable, technology-based regional economic development. His current design mission is tobring democratic design practices that have been validated in many organizations into broad civic use throughout the greater New Bedford area.

Book Publications

• Body Wisdom in Dialogue (TR Flanagan and KC Bausch) Ongoing Emergence Press, Riverdale GA, 2012

• A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures: a workbook for the study of the global problematic (TR Flanagan and KC Bausch) Ongoing Emergence Press, Riverdale GA, 2011

• Prologue, TR Flanagan in Body Wisdom: Interplay of Body and Ego (KC Bausch), Ongoing Emergence Press, Riverdale GA, 2010

• The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning, (TR Flanagan and AN Christakis), Information Age Publishing, Inc., Charlotte, NC, 2010

Other Publications

• K. Weigand, Flanagan, TR, Dye, KMC, and Jones, PH. (2013). Collaborative Foresight in Long-Horizon Planning: Contrasting dialogic and rational planning traditions in R&D strategy. Technological Forecasting & Social Change (in press).

• TR Flanagan, (2012). Representation of Systems Views in the Science of Dialogic Design,. in Strategic articulation of actions to cope with the huge challenges of our world today (Reynaldo Trevino-Cisneros and Bethania Arango Hisijara), A Social Systems Approach to Global Problems 1:167-168, Institute of 21st Century Agoras • http://www.academia.edu/3386273/Strategic_Articulation_of_Actions_to_Cope_with_the_Huge_Challenges_of_our_World_Today

• KC Bausch and Flanagan, TR (2013), A Confluence of Third-Phase Science and Dialogic Design Science. Syst. Res.. doi: 10.1002/sres.2166

• J McIntyre-Mills, Made, T,, Mackenzie, Bausch, K and Flanagan, T. 2013. An Online Course in Sustainable Democracy: A Group Decision Making Process. Journal of Public Deliberation (under review Manuscript 1168)

• K Bausch, Flanagan, TR, McIntyre-Mills, J, Made, T and Mackenzie, K, 2012. Striving for Sustainable Global Democracy Through a Group Decision Making Processes: A Critical Review of an Online Course to Model Transformative Praxis. Journal of Globalization Studies 3(1).

• TR Flanagan and AN Christakis, 2011. Referential Transparency for Dialogic Design Science. International Journal of Applied Systems Science. (submitted)

• T Flanagan, J McIntyre-Mills, T Made, K Mackenzie, C Morse, G Underwood and K Bausch, 2012. A Systems Approach for Engaging Groups in Global Complexity: Capacity Building Through an Online Course, Systemic Practice and Action Research: 25(2):171-193

• K Weigand, PH Jones and TR Flanagan, 2010. Collaborative Discovery of the Structure of Concerns: Understanding and Navigating Complex Problem Systems. ISSS Abstracts.

• H Benking, AN Christakis and TR Flanagan, 2010. Coming to Our Senses: Dimensionality of socio-cultural systems in Organizing collective Wisdom. Abstract, Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. Oct. 8-9, 2010.


External links

References

  1. ↑ http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Talking_Point.html?id=vx_Nu3FB_l4C The Talking Point - Amazon Link


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