From a holistic perspective, it could be argued that the world is far more than a rational dimensional understanding of communications and control. As humans, we constitute a vast system of emotional individuals who recursively construct and reflect our worlds through multiple media including music, paintings, and theatre. These operations produce ‘adimensional’ (without dimensions) experiences, which amplify the variety of possible meanings emerging from this web of interactions.  The distinctions each of us draw as observers create the varied pictures of the world that enable and inspire our subsequent actions (and reflections). Can this ‘adimensional’ web of interactions be modelled, understood and consciously directed towards producing a “better” world (whatever that might mean to each of us)? This session is planned as a platform for contributions relating systems, science, cybernetics and art in light of this question.

   For nearly 20 years we have particularly seen methods and developed in the arts and humanities as central to the development of leaders in all sectors, and have been part of a small but growing global community promoting “the arts of management”.  How can this important and ground-breaking work be fruitfully extended and what other contributions might art make to the governance of ourselves and our systems in the 21st century?