Contribution from David D. Woods:
Matched pair of talks from a complexity workshop in August 2019 leading off with Dave Alderson on Organized Complexity followed by David Woods on Graceful Extensibility. Alderson’s talk really starts at 4:19 as he provides a short introduction to his institution given the audience.
Alderson: Outmaneuvering Complexity in Worlds of Surprise: Managing Fundamental Tradeoffs
Woods: Outmaneuvering Complexity in Worlds of Surprise: How adaptive capacities in human-technology systems are built, extended, sustained, degraded, and collapse.