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TRIZ has several philosophical roots.
Thinking in contradictions, in categories of processes and development and dialectics point to the heritage of western philosophy in the tradition of Kant, Hegel and Marx.
Due to the roots of the majority of TRIZoviks in the former Soviet union one has to take into account the special circumstances of life and thinking.
The first one was addressed by Slava Gerovich as the impossibility publicly to discuss social contradictions thus strongly restricting the notion of creativity and inventiveness to problems rooted in technology.
- Slava Gerovitch (1996). Perestroika of the History of Technology and Science in the USSR: Changes in the Discourse. Technology and Culture, Vol. 37.1, S. 102--134. http://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-Perestroika.pdf
The second one is nevertheless a philosophical heritage developing after Stalin's death particularly in Moscow around the Moscow Methodological Circle that is claimed by several sources a quite influential not only for peple working in TRIZ but also in a wider range of the postsoviet Russian establishment.
- Justus Schollmeyer (2019). Wie kam TRIZ zur Dialektik? (How did TRIZ come to
dialectics?). Presentation at HAW Hamburg, 01.02.2019.
- http://rohrbacher-kreis.de/TRIZ/SchollmeyerTRIZDialektik.pdf
- A Report about the whole seminar in Hamburg by Hans-Gert Gräbe (in German).
- Justus Schollmeyer (2016). Auf dem Weg zu einer Theorie der Innovation.
TRIZ als eine Anwendung von Hegels Logik im Ingenieurbereich. (Towards a
theory of innovation. TRIZ as an application of Hegel's logic in
engineering). Presentation given at a seminar in Leipzig on 01.07.2016.
- http://hg-graebe.de/MINT-Leipzig/2016-07-01/Schollmeyer.pdf
- About the Seminar (in German).
- More on the work of Justus
The ideas of the Russian philosopher Georgy Shchedrovitsky, who founded the “Moscow Methodological Circle” gained traction in the late 1950s and had resonance through Khrushchev’s thaw, Brezhnev’s stagnation, and Gorbachev’s perestroika—right up until his death in 1994.
Shchedrovitsky essentially viewed human beings as machines that must be programed to perform certain functions — essentially, the theory of “social engineering.” The literary scholar Ilya Kukulin has found some similarities between Shchedrovitsky’s philosophy and the works of Soviet-era science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: most of their novels feature a “progressor,” a man who finds himself in the past or on a backward planet and eventually changes the world around him.
In effect, Shchedrovitsky and his followers were themselves progressors. They made no secret of their intent to influence government decisions, and it’s quite possible that Shchedrovitsky’s followers played a role in perestroika in the 1980s, since thousands of people had been exposed to his philosophy by this time.
Quoted from https://carnegie.ru/commentary/65015
The idea "A man who finds himself in the past or on a backward planet and eventually changes the world around him" is one of the core ideas of the TRIZ subtheory TRTL (theory of the development of a creative personality) that builds up a quite special mixture of anarcho-communistic, libertarian and neoliberal ideas, but has also links to the notion of Concrete Utopia by Ernst Bloch.
- J.-M. Vincent (1991) Ernst Bloch: Concrete Utopia and the Ontological Trap. In: Abstract Labour: A Critique. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21744-1_3
- https://www.kentavr.mathedu.ru
- Reports on 20 years of methodological research (1990-2007) in the wake of G.P. Shchedrovitsky, among others.
- Georgi Petrovich Shchedrovitsky
- English translation of a biography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Shchedrovitsky
- The MMC has had a lasting impact on Russian systems thinking particularly
through the Methodological School of Management
- Методологическая школа управления
- Methodological School of Management. Bloomsbury Publishing 2004. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methodological-school-of-management-9781472910301/
- https://shchedrovitskiy.com/predislovie-k-8-chtenijam-pamjati-g-p-shchedrovitskogo/
- The dance of horses. Film about the life of G.P. (in Russian)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFGfm3posdw
- "The organization of thought and practice changes from a scientific form of organization to a methodological form of organization. Just as the scientific form was strongly dominant in the last 300 years, the methodological form will be strongly dominant in the future."
- "Today we have to divide the world into the world of thinking and the naturalistic world, whereby the world of thinking is primary and the naturalistic world is nothing but a construction of the naturalists."
- О философии Г.П. Щедровицкого беседуют Искандер Валитов и Павел Фокин
(Iskander Valitov and Pavel Fokin talking about the philosophy of G.P.
Shchedrovitsky)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvTAygP2DuM
- About a theory of collective thinking, ontology of practice.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kVUECuhIk
- Each year at Febr 23, the birthday of G.P., there is a reading in Moscow in memory of G.P., organized by the G.P. Fonds. Ludmila Golubkova has published a summary of this event.
- Избранные труды
- Bibliography
- Piotr Georgievich Shchedrovitsky - the son
- Что есть мышление? Понятие и рабочая гипотеза ММК (What is thinking? The concept and working hypothesis of MMC) https://shchedrovitskiy.com/chto-est-myshlenie/.
- Деятельностно-природная система (Activity-nature system).
- Журнал «Человек и природа». — М., «Знание», 1987, № 12, с. 12–63.
- https://gtmarket.ru/laboratory/expertize/5412
- German Translation
- V. B. Khristenko, A. G. Reus, A. P. Zinchenko et al. The Methodological
School of Management. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
- https://books.google.by/books?id=_8wXBAAAQBAJ
- Part I: Selected Works by G.P. Shchedrovitsky
- Part II: Rails, Pipes and Cables: Experience of managing infrastructural complexes.
- Part III: Energy of industrial growth ... Part VII
- N.F. Andreytchenko, A.G. Reus (2018). An Apology of Ideology or Antidogmatics
- Dmitri Bakhturin (2020): Не-ТРИЗ версии системных представлений (Non-TRIZ
versions of system notions)
- Theses of a presentation at the Moscow TRIZ Conference 2020.
- Russian Version
- German Version
- N.I. Kuznecova (2015). Два проекта методологии: Г.П. Щедровицкий и М.А. Розов (Two methodology projects: G.P. Shchedrovitsky and M.A. Rozov)
- V. Matskevitch (2006). Systemic-Thought-Action Methodology. From the MMK archive. http://v2.circleplus.ru/archive/ing/8/text
- Egle Rindzevičiūtė (2015). The future as an intellectual technology in the Soviet Union. From Centralised Planning to Reflexive Management. https://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/8169
- Anna Rotkirch (1996). The playing 80's - Russian activity games. In: Danny Saunders, Fred Percival and Matti Vartiainen (eds): The Simulation and Gaming Yearbook Volume 4: Games and Simulations to Enhance Quality Learning, 34-40. London: KoganPage. https://blogs.helsinki.fi/rotkirch/files/2009/03/Rotkirch_Playing-80s.pdf
- G.P. Shchedrovitsky (1968). Project on Researching Pedagogy. Methodological Analysis. An Extract. http://v2.circleplus.ru/archive/ing/4/text
- G.P. Shchedrovitsky (1981). Принципы и общая схема методологической организации системно-структурных исследований и разработок (Principles and General Scheme of the Methodological Organization of System-Structural Research and Development).