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Ambjörn Naeve held a seminar on Provocative Modelling on 12 February. Ambjörn is presently a guest lecturer at DSV. Here follows Ambjörn’s summary and documentation of the seminar.

Provocative Modeling is a term that I came up with a while ago to describe models that provoke “engagement by disagreement” by exposing controversial ideas, beliefs and assumptions – often called prejudice. Since we can process only up to about 30 bits per second in our conscious mind, while we are at the same time receiving about 3 million bits per second through our senses, this information needs to be compressed about 100.000 times before we can deal with it on the conscious level. Hence, without pre-judging there can be no effective judging, and therefore it is not an option to be without prejudice. The question is only which prejudices you have. Also, by exposing your underlying beliefs and assumptions related to an issue, they become visible and therefore amenable to change. This is what Peter Senge calls Mental Modeling (http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5034656.html), which is one of the five disciplines of organizational learning (http://www.solonline.org/organizational_overview).In my talk I will display (what I think is) some of my more “provocative models” on terrorism, religion, gender, education, economics, and promotion strategies within a large organization. These models have been developed in our modeling tool Conzilla (www.conzilla.org) and the links to the presented models will be made available for the participants.

Some slides on Disagreement Management:
Ambjorn on Disagreement Management (Innsbruck, Febr 2009), Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/EagleBear/ambjrn-on-disagreement-managment-988233

In order to navigate the Conzilla-URLs below, you must first download Conzilla. Point your web browser to www.conzilla.org and click ’Download’ (to the left) and then ’Launch’ (under Conzilla 2.2 at the top of the page).

Below are the Conzilla-URLs for the maps that I discussed during my talk – and for some other ones that are related. Remember that these “Conzilla-URLs” have to be copied and pasted into the Conzilla address window (called Context-Map URI). To learn how to navigate Conzilla maps, go to www.conzilla.org/wiki/Doc/Navigation

Here are the Conzilla-URLs for:

the models that I discussed in my talk:

Terrorism (Dialogue map – Compendium-style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/religion/presentation/CM#52ded2112b5e07658

Religious Interoperability (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/religion/layoutCM#77e8ce1135e14f936

Discriminator questions (Decision tree style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df3732a88

Large Bureaucracies (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#70fa7d8911db90cc08e39c

Penetrating the Glass Ceiling (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-5532ba2611dc8e76cb33b5

Militarism-Terrorism (Peter Senge, The 5th Discipline) (mixture of ULM + Systems modeling styles):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#b52041113a08ce406

Shifting the Burden (The 5th Discipline , Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#95afdb1139d16ecc2476

Workload-Stress-Alcohol (Peter Senge, The 5th Discipline) (Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#7421ff112010afd4f

Gender modeling (ULM + mathematical style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/gender/layoutCM#b89c061139b60fb95

The Financial Crisis (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-55dd4cc111dfd7ca38d

models that are related – but were not discussed in my talk:

Knowledge Emulation (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#7925ae115b9ec94862d4

Globalization (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#c126b31157ea353aa8b3

Global Climate Change (Peter Senge) (Systems modeling style):
http://org/conzilla/people/amb/systems-modeling/CM#c36b2a113afe2c1df

The Stock Market (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#-182d208411d950e3a84

Soros’ Boom-Bust model (Special style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/KLM/layout/contextmap#-1c4314fc11d8bcf072a

Political power systems – the Cracy Ontology (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/politics/presentation/CM#76358a113b9b34bf3

Ideologies (Timeline style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/politics/presentation/CM#cbbdf310ac7b5259a5b3

Selfish and Unselfish Knowledge (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#76358a115a4478b6c

Swedish Asylum Policy (Process modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#ecdb1b11702d608cf

Corporate Greed (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#60563f8811dafaa95256b3

Aiding Africa – corruption of foreign aid (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#3bcb8ca411dcb9b02ca1fa6

Advertise-Consume (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/humanity-inc/layoutCM#83484811883528013184b

Mass(age) media (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#f6e3e9115adc3e27b

Automatization by Computers (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#f15f7f115aaa59b29

Automatization and LifeLong Learning (ULM style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/trends/layoutCM#e40f4c115a8cd6e0e

Problem – Solution (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1b9ca71

Problem – Solution applied to crime (Systems modeling style)::
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1dd250e

Problem – Solution applied to early mathematics education (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df1ed8110

Problem – Solution applied to academic mathematics education (Systems modeling style):
http://www.conzilla.org/people/amb/layout/contextmap#78eca60011df2132b32

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