2021 Quarterly Roundtable #4

hmm [Music] [Music] hello and welcome everyone to the academ flab to our quarterly round table number four that was our first ever playing of a musical intro by d schwakoff so thank you for that and happy birthday to yvonne so welcome to this fourth lab meeting to our end of 2021 discussion not quite but almost welcome to activelab everyone we are a participatory online lab that is communicating learning and practicing applied active inference you can find us at the links here on this slide this is recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us with feedback so that we can improve our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here and we'll be following good video etiquette for live streams so just make sure to raise your hand in jitsi because no one will be called on but if you want to add anything please feel free just raise your hand in jitsi and we will get to it today the way that it's going to work we're going to address the lab scale we'll have introductions then we'll talk about some updates at the lab scale and then we'll go into spending most of the meeting discussing the updates at the organizational unit scale and then talk about the future but first we can say hello and just introduce ourselves i'm daniel i'm a researcher in california and i'll pass it first to dean hi my name is dean i'm in calgary canada and i'll pass it to david yep i'm in the mountains of the philippines and um [Music] pumped up that i can stop writing code in a new language and write code in another new language for a while preferably sumo yvonne hello my name is iran i'm in moscow it's uh i'm a researcher in system management school and an active conference club um alex or stephen hello i'm stephen i'm here in toronto um just in north york just north of toronto at the moment and i work a lot with um embodied sense making and spatial approaches and community development and i'll pass it over to alex thanks yes i'm alex i'm in moscow russia and a researcher in active inference and system thinking indulges so thanks thank you and rj if you would like to say hi yeah sure uh i'm rj i'm in new york in the u.s uh i'm a non-resident fellow at the atlantic council and i do research on sense making and knowledge management well thanks everyone for joining this will be a fun discussion maybe some more will join in um and anybody who's watching live can just ask a question in the live chat we're going to start with the updates at the lab scale so actin flab updates we started this year with a interactive and participatory mission slash vision slash project which was to ask whether active inference could develop into a community and a field and all that comes along with that while also drawing on the best practices that we saw elsewhere especially in systems engineering and community of practice that yvonne and alex had a lot of familiarity with and other experiences that we and every participant brings to the table uh having a community for active inference that was participatory and accessible for those with many different backgrounds and trainings having a body of knowledge that includes courses and competencies things we'll talk about soon and also reflected the nature of modern work and professionalism and collaboration so these are just a few of the things that we wrote down long long ago and it's still a living document so please come get involved all actions are participatory stephen i was thinking we could also say a community of communities a nested set of uh communities uh inside a community that overlap in the kind of markovian sense yes let's graphically look at that so this is a little updated graphic and i hope it looks good for everyone so on the right side in the gray background we have the structure of the active lab itself so this is the lab scale that we're addressing in this section we have three primary organizational units which are coms communications edu education and tools tools we also have dot admin but…