Aufruf zum Mitmachen! Special Design Award für ‚Action on Climate Change‘ von IIID & BCSSS
Aufruf zum Mitmachen! Special Design Award ‚Action on Climate Change‘ Der IIID Awardist eine großartige Würdigung dessen, was Informationsdesigner zur Gesellschaft beitragen. Sie wenden Kreativität und Design Thinking an, um komplexe Kommunikationsprobleme zu lösen und um jeden Aspekt des menschlichen Lebens zu verbessern. Im Rahmen des IIID Award 2020 hat…
Call for papers! IRDO 2020, Maribor. Personal and Social Responsibility for Sustainable Future
Call for papers! 15th IRDO International Science and Business Conference 4 – 5 Juni 2020 Maribor, Slovenien Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung und aktuelle Herausforderungen 2020: PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IRDO – Das Institute for the Development of Social Responsibility, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Maribor lädt Wissenschaftler, Manager, Experten…
BCSSS becomes an active supporter for a digital humanism
Upon concluding a year of an intriguing workshops series concerned with new technological developments the BCSSS joins a movement supporting a new digital humanism. The center became an official supporter of the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism. The manifesto is a reaction to the challenges and threats that arise with…
Great interest in systemic perspectives by young changemakers at the Local Conference of the Youth Austria
This year’s Local Conference Of Youth Austria (LCOY), the Austrian Youth Climate Conference, in Vienna from 8 to 10th of November featured two sessions on systems thinking. The registration lists for the two sessions were already full in the early mornings, when most students had not yet registered for most…
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…
Research Group System Science and Pattern Literacy – 2018 Activity Report
The Group’s Objectives and Organization The BCSSS Research Group System Science and Pattern Literacy was launched in October 2017 by Maria Lenzi and Helene Finidori to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields interested in the connection between patterns and systems. Our research is dedicated to the development of socio-technical…
Strong Participation of the BCSSS at the #ISSS2018 – 62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Science
The BCSSS was strongly represented at the #ISSS2018 – 62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Science, which took place at the College of Engineering of the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, United States from 22nd to 27th of July 2018. David Rousseau, the current President…
Register now! 2018 NSF Design Circle Workshop: Designing and Developing Global Engineering Systems, Oregon, USA
From 22nd to 24th March 2018 the 2018 NSF Design Circle Workshop: Designing and Developing Global Engineering Systems takes place in Oregon, USA Organized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in co-operation with the Oregon State University the goal of this workshop is bring together educators and researchers in the…