Understanding the complexity of life is the foremost knowledge needed today

Understanding the complexity of life is the foremost knowledge needed today.

Not just by scientists, ecologists, or engineers, but for everyone in every area of human life! A range of research focused on the challenges facing humanity place complexity thinking and understanding as required in all areas of education. Such complexity competence includes being able to perceive the scaled relationality of all aspects of life. Implementing this perception into knowledge of the multiplicity of dynamics within various areas of ecological, cultural and technological life can translate into skills and action that works with change and emergence. A broad complexity perspective encourages conscious human partnership with healthy evolution for life sustaining outcomes. Such an approach to knowledge and education is necessary for viable human futures.

A vital characteristic of healthy complex life is diversity, and here at the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research a range of diverse research projects are contributing to not just viable, but positive futures. Integrating complexity competence into all levels of education is the focus of the Complexity Patterning Based Education Project. Using a successfully tested patterns and metaphor-based design called Complexity Patterning, this project is focused on developing a metacognitive and transdisciplinary new paradigm teaching and learning approach. Described as ComPatt.Ed. this approach will eventually be available for all stages of education. Designed to augment and expand current curriculum to engage with complexity, ComPatt.Ed is focused on experience of participative mutuality that nurtures coherence and diversity. All towards the human evolution required to become conscious and skilled custodians of our home planet.

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The Research project