Frederick Steier

Frederick Steier is Professor in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University, and Emeritus at the University of South Florida, where he had also served as Director of Interdisciplinary Studies Programs. His work focuses on systemic approaches to social/ecological systems, with attention to learning and whole systems design. He has led participatory action research programmes in a wide variety of settings, ranging from government institutions to science centres, such as the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), in Tampa, Florida, where he was also a Scientist-in-Residence. He is the editor of the volumes, Gregory Bateson: Essays for an ecology of ideas (2005), and Research and Reflexivity (1991), and is a Past-President of the American Society for Cybernetics. He has also had the honour of being King Olav V Fellow with the American-Scandinavian Foundation, leading to collaboration with colleagues at the University of Oslo. He received (2019) the Norbert Wiener award for lifetime achievement from the American Society for Cybernetics.

Works involving Frederick Steier

Humberto Maturana

Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds
(Edited by)

This volume is grounded in a deep appreciation of the rich and cohesive constellation of ideas developed by Humberto Maturana which, taken as a whole, can be understood as a biocultural matrix of human understanding.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Compositions in Living Cybernetics
(Edited by)

This collection of essays from authors representing a range of disciplines from anthropology to design to creativity and spirituality, as well as transdisciplinary perspectives that are at the heart of cybernetics, honours Mary Catherine Bateson's life and work.

Gregory Bateson

Essays for an Ecology of Ideas
(Edited by)

Gregory Bateson's work continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication, ecology, anthropology, philosophy, family therapy, education, and mental/spiritual health. The authors in this special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing celebrate the Bateson Centennial.

Works involving Frederick Steier

Humberto Maturana

Mary Catherine Bateson

Gregory Bateson

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