Basic Readings
- Brailas A. (2024). Systems Thinking and Psychotherapy: A Short Introduction. Laboratory
for Qualitative Research in Psychology and Psychological Well-Being, National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14499550 - Brailas, A. (2022). Petros Polychronis and the epistemology of life. Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal, 41, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r7chu
- Brailas, A. (2025). Replication Crisis in Psychology, Second-Order Cybernetics, and Transactional Causality: From Experimental Psychology to Applied Psychological Practice. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 59(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-024-09867-3
- Brailas, A. (2024). Postdigital Duoethnography: An Inquiry into Human-Artificial Intelligence Synergies. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00455-7
Books for further reading
- Do Systems Exist? A Conversation
- Principles of Systems Science
- A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics
- From Complexity to Creativity: Explorations in Evolutionary, Autopoietic, and Cognitive Dynamics
- Community-Based Participatory Research for Improved Mental Healthcare
- Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science
- Mass collaboration and education
- Non-Equilibrium Social Science and Policy
- The End of Trust
- It’s Complicated: the social lives of the networked teens
Articles
- von Foerster, H. (2003). Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics. In H. von Foerster, Understanding Understanding (pp. 287–304). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21722-3_14
- van Eijnatten, F. M., & Putnik, G. D. (2004). Chaos, complexity, learning, and the learning organization: Towards a chaordic enterprise. The Learning Organization, 11(6), 418–429. https://doi.org/10.1108/09696470410548782
- Crutchfield, J. P. (2012). Between order and chaos. Nature Physics, 8(1), 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2190
- A brief history of Systems Science, Chaos and Complexity
- Being a process, and seeing in relationships
- The Designer as Health Practitioner
Articles related to the course’s delivery mode
- Brailas, A. (2021). Rhizomatic Learning in Action: A Virtual Exposition for Demonstrating Learning Rhizomes. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434780.3436565
- Brailas, A. (2021). A Systems Thinking Approach to Reflective Practice in Blogs: Implications on Social-Emotional Learning and Resilience Building. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434780.3436564
- Brailas, A., Koskinas, K., & Alexias, G. (2017). Teaching to emerge: Toward a bottom-up pedagogy. Cogent Education, 4(1), 1377506. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2017.1377506
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Brailas, A., Koskinas, K., & Alexias, G. (2016). Design and implementation of a web-based system to support collective reflective practice. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 7(3), 95–104. https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v7i3.18864
AI in context
- Brailas, A. (2024). Postdigital Duoethnography: An Inquiry into Human-Artificial Intelligence Synergies. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00455-7
- Mitchell, M. (2019). Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning. Information, 10(2), 51. https://doi.org/10.3390/info10020051
- Brailas, A. (2019). Psychotherapy in the era of artificial intelligence: Therapist Panoptes. Homo Virtualis, 2(1), 68. https://doi.org/10.12681/homvir.20197
Videos
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