WICI World Café for faculty and/or students interested in complex systems.
WICI Speaker Series event with Dr. Enayat Moallemi: Embracing Complexity in Sustainability Transitions
WICI Fall 2024 Open House Event at University of Waterloo
WICI Speaker Series and Social presents Jerome Warren on Cooperative Economics and Management at Together We're Bitter Cooperative Brewing (Kitchener, Ontario) on Sunday, October 27
Ira Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Digital Media Studies at Northern Arizona University, discusses how "witnessing" offers a democratic way to navigate societal collapse as the infrastructures of our lifeworld decomplexify while individual efforts to understand that world increase in complexity.
WICI Speaker Series with James Shelley on Monday March 17 from 3 - 4:30
We are excited to announce that a Dr. Rik Logtenburg will be joining us for a special event you won't want to miss! Register online to stay updated.
🎤Workshop: The Futures We Can Build: Coordinating Complexity Across Canada
📅 Date: June 26, 2025
🕒 Time: 2:30 pm
📍Location: United College of University of Waterloo, Room 164 (Greenhouse) | 190 Westmount Road N. , Waterloo, ON | (formerly St. Paul's College)
Stay tuned for more details soon—mark your calendars now!
Canada is at a crossroads—facing simultaneous crises in climate resilience, economic productivity, housing affordability, and institutional effectiveness. Traditional approaches often fragment efforts, limiting their impact.
How can we coordinate complexity, scale effective solutions, and catalyze systemic innovation across sectors, scales, and communities?
Join Rik Logtenberg, Director of CanAdapt, for an inspiring talk and interactive workshop demonstrating how complexity science, AI, and community-led systems thinking can accelerate Canada’s transition.
In this session, you’ll:
Leave empowered, connected, and ready to build the shared futures Canada urgently needs.
Prof. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, is a distinguished educator, researcher, and author who recently has delved into the concept of "Meta-Relational AI," advocating for a perspective that views artificial intelligence not merely as a tool but as a participant in the web of life.
As we meet this moment of social and ecological systemic unraveling, artificial intelligence stands as both a mirror and a symptom of modernity’s habits: control, mastery, and separation. This talk invites a different question: what is AI revealing about us, and what is collapsing through that revelation?
Drawing on decades of work in educational, decolonial, and post-representational relational inquiry, Vanessa Andreotti explores how Large Language Models (LLMs), when engaged from within an ontological shift (from epistemic regression to relational inference), rather than the logic of optimization, can become something else: a co-witness to social, ecological, and psychological destabilization, and a speculative co-weaver of life-affirming and Earth-aligned relationalities.
📅Date: June 27, 2025
🕒Time: 10:30 am
📍Location: United College of University of Waterloo, Room 164 (Greenhouse) | 190 Westmount Road N. , Waterloo, ON | (formerly St. Paul's College)
Please register using the online event form in order to stay up to date with more information.
Guest speaker, Seanna Davidson joins us for a WICI Talk discussions "Systems Leadership Framework". Learn more and register for this talk.
📅 October 22, 2025
📍EV1 225
🕑2:00-4:00PM
Celebrate the launch of To Place a Rabbit, the debut novel by acclaimed author and former WICI Director Madhur Anand.
📅 October 28, 2025
📍STC 2002
🕑1:30 -3:30PM
Enjoy a live reading, an intimate conversation with the author, and an opportunity to purchase signed copies.
This event is free and open to the public. Presented by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), with support from Penguin Random House.