> For those who have not seen it, or for relative newcomers to the
> disciplines of systems thinking, I recommend the movie MINDWALK, which
> should be available at your local video rental store.
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I think that MINDWALK video is an excellent one for introducing
people o systems thinking. It is especially designed to illustrate basic
systems thinking concepts.
At the School of Engineering Management of UCT (University of Cape
Town) we show this movie to our postgraduate students during their
start-up period to create an awareness about the systems perspective.
Apart from MINDWALK there is also another movie that we find very
useful. It is called Lorenzo's Oil. I am not very sure whether the
director was fully aware of the systemic content that he was putting
in, or this content is an unplanned emergent property of this movie
but I will stongly suggest to any systems thinker to see it (except
it may not be suitable to sensitive people because of its depressive
context).
The models that the main character (Nick Nolte) is using and the self
driven learning process that he goes through (I wish nobody will ever
have has such terrible motivation for learning) illustrates very well
the kind of learning that we are trying to achieve here.
As far as I remember it is real life story and this makes the movie
even more relevant.
I would like to hear your comments.
Alp Baysal
School of Engineering Management
University of Cape Town
e-mail : alp@cerecam.uct.ac.za
tel : 27-21-650 26 00
fax : 27-21-689 27 37