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…
Helene Finidori präsentierte Pattern Literacy in Support of Systems Capability auf der INCOSE IW2020
25 – 28 Januar 2020 Torrance, Kalifornien, USA Annual INCOSE International Workshop 2020 Im Rahmen der International Council on Systems Engineering Systems Science Working Group (SSWG) nahm Helene Finidori, Leiterin der BCSSS-Forschungsgruppe Systems Science and Pattern Literacy, an der IW2020 teil und hielt einen Vortrag über ihre Arbeit einschließlich der…
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…
Karin Huber-Heim invited to expert panel on circular urban-rural relationships
On May 23, BCSSS Research Group leader Karin Huber-Heim was invited to participate in an expert panel on the topic „From urban metabolism to a fair and circular urban-rural relationship“. The conference on urban-rural relationships , organized by the the SERI Institute in Vienna, was held in cooperation with the…
Mapping the Landscape of Patterns Across Domains – Vol. 1: Overview of Survey Results
Launched in February 2018 by the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Pattern Literacy, the Survey Mapping the Landscape of Patterns across Domains generated 140 responses. In general terms, respondents come from a variety of disciplines: systems science, systems thinking, business consulting, computer science and information technologies, design, architecture, permaculture,…
General Systems Theory & McLuhan. Ernest A. Hakanen visits the BCSSS
Next April the Bertalanffy Center welcomes Ernest A. Hakanen, PhD, Professor of Communication at the Graduate Faculty of Communication, Culture and Media, Drexel University, Philadelphia. His current research focuses on the relationship between General Systems Theory and McLuhan’s Media Theories as well as his Legacy Theories, such as Media Ecology and…
Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics I
Within the framework of the Emergent Systems, Information and Society group, Tomáš Sigmund was invited to the Center to start the joint research project „Systems Approaches to Information Ethics“. In a three-day workshop during his stay in Vienna (23-27 January, 2017), Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland) and Critical Systems Heuristics (Ulrich) were…