HOW SYSTEMS GET UNSTUCK
One of the International Bateson Institute’s inaugural research projects investigated the question of how to interact with stuck systems. Crises in energy, economics, medicine, education, and so forth can all be seen as “stuck” in patterns. Co-dependent systems require co-evolution. How can we shift these patterns?
This research began at a unique center for rehabilitation of paralysis. Specialising in the recovery of stroke victims, among others, this successful rehabilitation practice is based on a different epistemology than other medical models. Inspired by the work of Carlo Perfetti and incorporating cybernetic and theoretical insights, including those of Bateson and Varela, this approach eschews the use of technologies based on a mechanical model of muscle and neurological functions. Instead, rehabilitation is seen as a mental, mind-body process involving meaning, emotion, imagination, memory, and context.
Artifacts and Outcomes: The research we inaugurated here has become a model for new methods in transcontextual research. We also believe that researchers may find the rehabilitation that occurs at the Villa Miari to be both a “model of, and model for” processes of change that resonate in a variety of contexts, allowing them to refine ideas with surprisingly wide and unexpected implications. Products include: Publications, exhibitions, educational materials.
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