Pille Bunnell’s Details

Pille Bunnell

Pille Bunnell

Email: life.works@me.com

Biographical Info: I have a background in ecology and ethology. I worked for decades as a systems ecologist who specialized in the integration and explanation of complex concerns for domain specialists, policy makers, students, and the public. As the Director of Environmental Literacy with an international consulting firm I conducted integrative projects in the framework of Adaptive Environmental Management; dealing with concerns ranging from fisheries, wildlife and forestry, to land use management, energy use, and climate change. Since retiring from the consultancy I have shifted my focus to cybernetics, investigating the relation between complex systems, human understanding, and human activities. I teach based on this complex at Royal Roads University, SelfDesign Graduate Institute, and other venues.

After six years as President and Past President of the American Society of Cybernetics, I remain active with the society and less actively serve on the editorial boards of Cybernetics and Human Knowing and Constructivist Foundations.

What I bring to the conference is curiosity. What I hope to contribute from is my ongoing deepening understanding of the implications of thinking and acting based in a constitutive ontology and epistemology. I continue to explore the ramifications of reflections as they alter how we humans see ourselves and how we relate to each other and the world around us. I think about languaging, emotioning, and the reciprocal flow of influences between individuals, culture, and biosphere, and how this results in lineages with elements of hysteresis as well as opportunities for conservation and change.

After six years as President and Past President of the American Society of Cybernetics, she remains active with the society and serves on the editorial boards of Cybernetics and Human Knowing and Constructivist Foundations.

What I bring to the comference is curiosity. What I hope to contribute from is my ongoing deepening understanding of the implications of thinking and acting based in a constitutive ontology and epistemology. I continue to explore the ramifications of reflections as they alter how we humans see ourselves and how we relate to each other and the world around us. I think about languaging, emotioning, and the reciprocal flow of influences between individuals, culture, and biosphere, and how this results in lineages with elements of hysteresis as well as opportunities for conservation and change.