Learning log 8For this learning log I focused on twoarticles: (1) Resilience: The emergence of a perspective forsocialecological systems analyses by CarlFolke, and (2) Organizing Smart Networks and Humans intoaugmented Teams by Martijn Neef et. al. Thefirs one describes the concept of resilience while the second one presents apractical way and experiments on creating augmented team (interaction of humanssystems with other, such as technological devices, to increase the efficiencyand reach of a group). I will focus more on the first one, since it presenteddetailed explanations about resilience and adaptability concepts.The main idea in the first article was topresent that resilience is not about constancy, but about variability. Thatresilience is the capacity of a system to continue existing after adisturbance. But beside these basic ideas, what really called my attention isabout finding multi stable behavior, the author said that to find it, youhave to consider the relations between the analyzed system and the related onesthrough the lens of the speed in which they act. This speed issue in the systemanalysis determines how many information to collect (period of time). And byknowing from which point in time to start and where to stop, you can draw theboundaries of your analysis. For example, to analyze changes in a societysystem, if our focus is on political organization, our boundaries could be setaccording to the duration of a government, or, if we are to analyze foodproduction, we could use seasons or other weather related issue to help ussetting an initial boundary. And then the boundary can be changed according towhat we discover from a system and its relations. For example, if we areanalyzing a social system according to the duration of a specific politiciansgovernment, we may discover that the reasons or results of changes and adaption(to keep resilience) of this system have roots on previous governments, and sowe may have to increase the boundary of our analysis, which could grow to, forexample, the duration of some specific political ideology in power.Another issue the author talks about is abouthow the actors of a system get adapted to new schemes and overcome disturbance,he states that an actor know what to change according to the feedbacks it getsfrom the other actors. And in order to be able to adapt, this actor must havethe possibility to do so, therefore, there must not be a centralizedcontrolling power, what takes us back to Elionor Ostrom speech in the NobelPrize conference. I am referring back to this issue because I believe it is avery important issue that I will have to consider when doing my final report,where I want to analyze the current situation of the Millennium Villages inMozambique through a systemic way, and see how the government influences in itsfuture, what has to be changed and how the MV community can find a way to beresilient and sustainable while other systems may be action opposite to theirgoals. For this learnig log, I focused on twoarticles: (1) A Brief Guide To Interactive Planning And Idealized Design by RussellL. Ackoff (2001) and, Peripheral Vision: Sensing and Acting on Weak SignalsMaking Meaning out of Apparent Noise: