Publications

Featured Books

Flanagan, TR and Bausch, K. (2011). A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures. Agoras Institute: Ongoing Emergence Press.  Chapter 6 available as download.

Flanagan, TR and Christakis, AN (2009). The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning. Information Age Publishing.

Christakis, AN with Bausch, K. (2006).  How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power to Construct the Future in Co-Laboratories of Democracy. Information Age Publishing.

Bausch, K. (2010). Body Wisdom. Institute for 21st Century Agoras.

Featured Articles

Latest: Weigand, K., Flanagan, TR, Dye, KMC, and Jones, P.  (2014).  Collaborative foresight: Complementing long-horizon strategic planning. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 85, 134–152.

• Christakis, A.N. (2004). A Retrospective Structural Inquiry on the Problematique of the Club of Rome. Institute for 21st Century Global Agoras.
• Christakis, A.N. (2007). The Dialogue Game. Agoras Institute report.
• Christakis, A.N., and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, Final Report. Paoli, PA: CWA Ltd.
• Flanagan, T.R. (2008). Scripting a Collaborative Narrative: An Approach for Spanning Boundaries. Design Management Review,  Summer, 82-29.
• Laouris, Y. (2010). The ABCs of SDD. Future Worlds Center report.
• Ozbekhan, H. (1970.) The Predicament of Mankind. Club of Rome report.
• Ozbekhan, H. (1969). Toward a General Theory of Planning. System Development Corp report.
• Ozbekhan, H. (1968). The Triumph of Technology: “Can Implies Ought”. King Resources report.
• Warfield, J. N. (1999). The Problematique: Evolution of an Idea. Sys Res Beh Sci, 16, 221-225.

Other Member Books

Banathy, B.H. (1996). Designing Social Systems in a Changing World. New York: Plenum.

Banathy, B.H. (2001). Guided Evolution of Society, New York: Plenum.

Bausch, K. (2010). Body Wisdom: Interplay of Body and Ego. Ongoing Emergence.

Bausch, K. (2001). The Emerging Consensus in Social System Theory. New York: Plenum.

Jenlink P. M., and Banathy B. H. (2005). Dialogue as a Collective Means of Design Conversation. New York: Springer.

Jones, P.H. (2013). Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience. Brooklyn, NY: Rosenfeld Media.

Jones, P.H. (2008).  We Tried to Warn You: Innovations in Leadership for the Learning Organization. Ann Arbor: Nimble Books.

Jones, P.H. (2002). Team Design:  A Practitioner’s Guide to Collaborative Innovation. Philadelphia: Xlibris.

Loye, D. (2007). The Global Sounding. Carmel, CA: Benjamin Franklin Press.

Loye, D. (2007). Darwin’s Lost Theory. Carmel, CA: Benjamin Franklin Press.

Loye, D. (2006). Measuring Evolution. Carmel, CA: Benjamin Franklin Press.

McIntyre-Mills, J. (2006).  Systemic Governance and Accountability: Working and Re-working the Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries. New York: Springer.

Warfield, John N. (1994). A Science of Generic Design: Managing Complexity Through Systems Design. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

Articles & Reports

• Christakis, A.N., and Harris, L. (2004). Designing a Transnational Indigenous Leaders Interaction in the Context of Globalization: A Wisdom of the People Forum, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, 21, 2511-261.
• Christakis, A. N., and Brahms, S. (2003). Boundary-Spanning Dialogue for 21st -Century Agoras, Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences, 20, 371-382.
• Christakis, A.N. (1996).  “A People Science:  The CogniScope System Approach,”  Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996, pp. 16-19.
• Christakis, A.N. (1993). “The Inevitability of Demosophia.” In Ioanna Tsivakou (ed.), A Challenge for Systems Thinking: The Aegean Seminar, University of the Aegean Press, Athens, Greece, pp. 187-197.
• Christakis, A.N. (1988). “The Club of Rome Revisited.” In William J. Reckmeyer (ed.), General Systems, Volume XXXI, New York, NY: International Society for the Systems Sciences, pp. 35-38.
• Christakis, A.N. (1987). “High Technology Participative Design: The Space-Based Laser.” In John A. Dillon, Jr. (ed.), General Systems, Volume XXX, Louisville, KY: International Society for General Systems Research, pp. 69-75.
• Christakis, A.N. (1985). “The National Forum on Non industrial Private Forest Lands,” Systems Research 2, pp. 189-199.
• Christakis, A.N. (1973). “A New Policy Science Paradigm,” Futures, 5, pp. 543-558.
• Christakis, A.N., Krause, L., and Prabhu,Y. (1988). “Synthesis in a New Age,” Systems Research 5, pp. 107-114.
• Christakis, A.N., Warfield, J.N., and Keever, D. (1989). “Systems Design: Generic Design Theory and Methodology.” In Michael Decleris (ed.), Systems Governance, Publisher Ant. N. Sakkoylas, Athens-Komotini, Greece, pp. 143-210, (in Greek).
• Christakis, A.N.,Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Feudtner, C., Geranmayeh, A., and Whitehouse, R.J. (1994). Designing the Good Review Practices, CWA Report FDA-694-1, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N.,Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Feudtner, C., and Whitehouse, R.J. (1995a). Application of the CogniScopeTM System for the Conceptual Design of the AMF Project Plan, CWA Report FDA-195-2, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
  Christakis A.N., Conaway, D. (1995b). Designing the Development of Regulatory Science, CWA Report FDA-395-4, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N., Christakis, N.A., Conaway, D., Geranmayeh, A., and Snow R.M. (1996). Designing Office of Chief Counsel, CWA Report FDA-895-6, Interactive Management Consultants, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N., and Bausch, K.C., (2002). Technologue: Technology-Supported Disciplined Dialogue, in Robert, N (ed.) Transformative Power of Dialogue. Elsevier.
• Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S. and Bronfman, B. Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, World Futures.
• Christakis, A.N., and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Anticipating Alternative National and Regional Futures in Energy Efficiency, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N., and Dye, K.M. (1999). Collaboration through Communicative Action: Resolving the Systems Dilemma through CogniScopeTM, Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Sciences, Volume 4, Number 1.
• Christakis, A.N., Dye, K.M., and Post, D. (1999). Partners’ Forum for Designing a Framework for the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N., McDonald, R. and Conaway, D.S. (2001). Forest Service Priority Setting for Fiscal Year 2003, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S, Rudavsky, Shari, and Schwartz, Peter (2002). Collaborative Leadership for Patient Safety for Ambulatory Surgery in the Office Setting, Final Report, CWA LTD., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Christakis, A.N., Conaway, D.S. and Bausch, K.C. (2002). A Wisdom of the People Forum: Designing a Transnational Indigenous Leaders Interaction in the Context of Globalization (Co-Laboratory of Democracy), CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Dye, K.M. and Conaway, D.S. (1999). Lessons Learned from Five Years of Application of the CogniScope Approach to the Food and Drug Administration, CWA Ltd. Report, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Dye, K.M., Feudtner, C., Post, D., and Vogt, E.M. (1999). Developing Collaborative Leadership to Reframe the Safe Use of Pharmaceuticals as a National Health Priority, Final Report, CWA Ltd., Paoli, Pennsylvania.
• Laouris, Y. 1998. “Citizens’ Contributions to the Political Settlement in Cyprus.” Speech given at Peoples’ Europe 98 Conference, as part of a symposium with special advisor Sir David Haney, London, June 5–7.
• Laouris, Y. 2000. The double personality of the Cypriot society, available at: www.tech4peace.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=714. Laouris, Y. (2004). Information technology in the service of peace building; The case of Cyprus. World Futures, 60, 67–79.
• Laouris, Y. (2008). The Law of Requisite Action (in preparation). Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can information and Mobile technologies serve close the gap and accelerate development? World Futures.
• Laouris, Y. and Christakis, A. (2007). Harnessing collective wisdom at a fraction of the time using Structured Design Process embedded within a virtual communication context. International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies.
• Laouris, Y. and Michaelides, M. (2007a) What obstacles prevent practical broad-band applications from being produced and exploited? In: Towards an inclusive future Impact and wider potential of information and communication technologies, Editor Roe Patrick. Chapter 7. Available on line at: http://www.tiresias.org/cost219ter/inclusive_future/inclusive_future_ch7.htm
• Laouris, Y. Michaelides, M. and Sapio, B. (2007). What are the obstacles that prevent the wide public from benefiting and participating in the broadband society? Conference Proceedings Cost 298 conference, Moscow 2007. Available on-line at www.cost298.org
• Laouris, Y. and Christakis, A. (2007). Harnessing collective wisdom at a fraction of the time using Structured Design Process embedded within a virtual communication context. I Int. J. Applied Systemic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 131-153.
• Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M,. Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., and Christakis, A. (2008). A roadmap based on evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured design process. Cyprus Review (in preparation).
• Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M., Damdelen,, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., & Christakis, A. (2009). A systemic evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured dialogic design process. Systemic Practice and Action Research 22(1): 45-75.
• Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M., Damdelen,, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., & Christakis, A. (2007). A Systemic Evaluation of the State of Affairs Following the Negative Outcome of the Referendum in Cyprus using a Structured Dialogic Design Process. Retrieved at: http://www.futureworldscenter.org/Research/Full%20Papers/RevivingPeaceArticle2007_04_13.pdf
• Warfield, John N., and A. Roxana Cardenas. A Handbook of Interactive Management. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 2d, 1994.