Complex systems and cybercultur@

Researching and developing cybercultur@ should be based on a clear conceptualization of complex systems in field research:

This paper will show different traits and conditions shaping the process of facilitation of any emergent local knowledge community.

a)      multidimensional components interacting (social organizations, cultural constraints, cognitive competences, technological appropriation, historical determinations, economic conditions and ecological environment)

b)      facilitation concentrates on passing from none, to weak, and then to strong and intense interdependency of agents

c)      emergent collective behaviours

d)      increasing capacity of self-steering as a collective strategy for confronting local problems

e)      visualisation of enactive bonds in an open network of ELKCs

f)        commute from local to situated knowledge.

Three permanent processes are involved: cognitive open stimulation, increasingly dense agent’s connectivity and re-designed consistence as emergent outcomes to problems.

Different disciplines are necessarily required for defining the limits and the internal loops (positive and negative) and limit conditions of this complex system: namely ethno-sociology, social psychology, genetic epistemology and critical pedagogy.

A multidisciplinary team has worked in the creation of three frameworks:

• Epistemic: common position taken and positioned questions
• Conceptual: integrated common conceptualizations of the system
• Methodological: collective strategy for the construction of the complex object

This paper will report some findings of a current project in Charcas, México.