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Conference 2026: 100 Years of Stafford Beer

In 2026, Metaphorum is inviting you to celebrate with us the centenary of the birth of Stafford Beer, one of the most influential figures in Cybernetics and Systems Thinking. More than fifty years after his invention of the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity, Beer’s work remains urgently relevant as organisations and societies confront escalating complexity, ecological limits, technological disruption, and crises of governance.
Metaphorum 2026 invites the global cyber-systemic community to reflect, reconnect, and reimagine organisational cybernetics through three interwoven themes
Metaphorum and Organisational Cybernetics
The Viable System Model (VSM) and Team Syntegrity (TS) support more effective and agile organisations, by unlocking the emancipatory potential of its members.
We are a vibrant, global community that develops, and disseminates, his tools and ideas to contribute to build a better world.
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Stafford Beer and his Work

Stafford Beer offers a new approach to design organisations that can sustain in chaotic times.
The life and work of the inventor of organizational cybernetics
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