#Introduction 2/3

I'm interested in:

#ClimateChange #Ecology #Sustainability

#Complexity #Cybernetics #SystemsThinking

#Epistemology #GregoryBateson #WarmData #TheoryOfChange

#Design #DesignResearch #Ethnography #Innovation #ServiceDesign #StrategicDesign #TransitionDesign #UXdesign

#Futures #Foresight #ChangeManagement

#Psychology

#Colorado #Boulder

#Climbing #Cycling #BikePacking

The alignment following #JJGibson on #Affordances and #GregoryBateson on ecological epistemology by #TimIngold, I've found more productive than #BrunoLatour on ANT, @camerontw

There's a whimsical chapter on "When ANT meets SPIDER: Social Theory for Arthropods" in _Being Alive_ (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203818336

Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women

Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives — and who as the only child of Margaret Mead had once been one of the most famous babies in America — died on Jan. 2 in Lebanon, N.H. She was 81.

Her husband, J. Barkev Kassarjian, confirmed the death, at a hospice facility. He did not specify the cause but said she had suffered a fall earlier that week and experienced brain damage.

Dr. Bateson’s parents, Dr. Mead and Gregory Bateson, an Englishman, were celebrated anthropologists who fell in love in New Guinea while both were studying the cultures there. (Dr. Mead was married to someone else at the time.) They treated their daughter’s arrival almost as more field work, documenting her birth on film — not a typical practice in 1939 — and continuing to record her early childhood with the intention of using the footage not just as home movies but also as educational material. (Dr. Bateson’s first memory of her father was with a Leica camera hanging from his neck.) ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/books/mary-catherine-bateson-dead.html

#MaryCatherineBateson #obituary #anthropology #MargaretMead #GregoryBateson