AN ECOSYSTEM CALLED UNIVERSITY

An Ecosystem Called University (2021) reframes the university as a living organism and common good rather than a managerial “machine.” Drawing on biomimetics and complexity, it proposes ecosystem principles—biocenosis, biotope, knowledge-energy flows, resilience, and autopoiesis—to organize autonomous, heterarchical learning communities. The book unfolds in three parts: (I) toward an organization compatible with life (entropy as creative uncertainty, change management, innovation culture, knowledge management); (II) toward a university for the person, reconciling instrumental reason with critical sense amid rankings, markets, and the “knowledge society”; and (III) getting down to practice at UPS: action cycles, ecosystem pillars and platforms. The result is a transformative agenda that links research, teaching, and social engagement to produce novelty and strengthen university autonomy as a project.