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About Tom Scholte
Tom Scholte is a Professor of Directing and Acting in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Musqueam people. As an actor/writer/producer/director his work has been scene in such venues as the Toronto, Berlin, and Sundance film festivals. He is also the Faculty Lead and Artistic Director of Conflict Theatre@UBC; a joint initiative of his home department and UBC Human Resources in partnership with the UBC Office of Equity and Inclusion using Forum Theatre to explore workplace conflict on campus. His research on the cybernetics of the Stanislavski System of Acting and theatre-based methods of modelling complex social systems has been published in such journals as Kybernetes, Constructivist Foundations, and Futures.Tom Scholte is a Professor of Directing and Acting in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Musqueam people
NBN Episodes hosted by Tom:
November 3, 2021
Cybernetics for the Social Sciences
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to …
September 17, 2021
Gaian Systems
Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock an…
August 17, 2021
Immersive Systemic Knowing
On this episode, we speak with Ragav Rajagopalan about his book, Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis, out…
July 8, 2021
The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory
Regular listeners to this podcast will be well aware of my strong conviction that the Perceptual Control Theory initially formulated by William T. Pow…
May 11, 2021
Cybernetic-Existentialism
Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World War II, w…
January 18, 2021
Network Origins of the Global Economy
Twenty-eight years after Francis Fukuyama declared the “end of history” and pronounced Western-style liberalism as the culmination of a Hegelian narra…
November 25, 2020
Systems Practice
While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice …
October 7, 2020
Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World
In the view of Anthony Hodgson, fragmentation of local and global societies is escalating, and this is aggravating vicious cycles. To heal the rifts, …
August 20, 2020
Design Cybernetics
Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics in the present, will be no strangers to the name Ra…
January 2, 2020
Information Fantasies
International and transnational historiography has given us vivid glimpses of the development and impact of cybernetics on a national scale in such co…
May 10, 2019
Cybernetics and Systems
Regular listeners of this podcast will, no doubt, be familiar with the name of Raul Espejo, former Director of Operations of Stafford Beer’s famed Cyb…
March 20, 2019
Philosophy, Processes, Practice
Like a number of the books discussed on this podcast, A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy, Processes, Practice (Springer, 2017), was intended to f…
February 4, 2019
Social Systems and Design
In the opening chapter of his edited volume, Social Systems and Design, out from Springer in 2014, Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish et…
January 2, 2019
Principles of Systems Science
Of the many barriers to a more robust presence for systems approaches in the academy, the relative scarcity of sufficient introductory textbooks in th…
November 19, 2018
Doing Research on Purpose
Listeners familiar with our recent podcasts exploring the remarkable legacy of William T. Powers revolutionary Perceptual Control Theory of human beha…
October 26, 2018
A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy
To many, the title, A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features (Routledge, 2012) , may seem incongruous wi…
October 4, 2018
Upside-Down Gods
The work of polymath Gregory Bateson has long been the road to cybernetics travelled by those approaching this trans-disciplinary field from the direc…
September 5, 2018
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Between his retirement from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne in 1975 and his death in 2002, many cyberneticians made the pilgrimage to P…
August 1, 2018
Applied Systems Theory
As Reader in Industrial Management in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, Rob Dekkers is well positioned to survey the curren…
July 20, 2018
Systems Thinking For Social Change
While Systems Thinking has enjoyed an increasing amount of societal influence through work of such practitioner/authors as Peter Senge, it is also tru…
June 21, 2018
Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind
The cybernetics community owes a great debt of thanks to the editors of Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Mind series, for bringing to light a…
June 1, 2018
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
It would be difficult to argue against Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn as the most bold and audacious chapter in the history of cybernetics. In the e…
May 4, 2018
Controlling People
The word “control”, with its seemingly instantaneous mental associations with forms of top-down oppression, is one that makes even some cyberneticians…
April 13, 2018
New Horizons for Second-Order Cybernetics
In their volume, New Horizons for Second-Order Cybernetics (World Scientific, 2017), editors Alexander Riegler, Karl H. Muller and Stuart A. Umpelby h…