Ecocivilisation Talks: The Post – Millennial generation and Ecocivilisation
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed once again to the Ecocivilisation talk series with their reflections from a systems perspective. The talk considers the challenges faced by the current generation in an age of unprecedented interconnectedness and the often contradictory needs for community and the search…
Ecocivilisation Talks: Politics and Ecocivilisation Narrative
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed once again to the Ecocivilisation talk series as invited provocateurs from a systems perspective. The “Politics and Ecocivlisation Narrative” talk provides an interesting insight on the interdependency of our political system with environmental conditions and social structures. Watch the full…
Ecovilisation Talks: The emergence of a new civilisation
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed a second time to the Ecocivilisation talk series with their insights from a systems perspective. The talk considers the value of learning about our heritage from a collective point of view and on a global basis, to empower us to…
Ecocivilisation Talks: The roots of civilisations
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed to the Ecocivilisation talk series with their valuable insights from a systems perspective. “The Roots of Civilisations” talk discusses learnings from the past, exploring: the basic definition of what the civilisation is, its roots of the concept what has contributed…
Join our joint School of Thinking in Brussels and learn how systems thinking connects with further famous schools of thought
The First Summer School of Thinking by the Montparnasse Initiative in July 2018 in Paris was the first step of the today existing School of Thinking in Brussels, a program that is organised by the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA), a transdisciplinary research centre at the Vrije Universiteit…
New lecture series by BCSSS visiting scholar Cadell Last on ‘Systems Science and Subjectivity’
Cadell Last, a philosopher and host of the School of Thinking at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium worked with the Bertalanffy Center for an extended period of time in 2019 as one of the first early career researchers the Center intends to support with its Next Generation Program. He…
Philosopher Cadell Last researches human evolution and the role of subjective problematics in the anthropocene
Cadell Last, a philosopher and host of the School of Thinking at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium worked with the Bertalanffy Center for an extended period of time in 2019 as one of the first early career researchers the Center intends to support with its Next Generation Program. He…
Bridging the fields of Systems Science and Cybernetics in North America
During a tour of six weeks and visiting six cities, Angelika Schanda attended three major conferences on Systems Science and Cybernetics. As Program Manager at the BCSSS, Schanda made it her mission to connect the often dispersed communities and groups related to these fields. Toward that end, she traveled across…