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…
BCSSS Online Conference ‘Homo Digitalis und die Conditio Humana’
Homo Digitalis und die CONDITIO HUMANA: Mensch und Menschenbild im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung BCSSS Online Conference 19th March 2020 Felix Tretter and Stefan Blachfellner of the BCSSS were responsible for the organisation of this event, which was originally planned as a direct meeting. This format had to be cancelled due…
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,…
Information from Physics to Social Science
Members of the Emergent systems, information and society Research Group have, among others, contributed to a special issue of the European Physical Journal Special Topics on “Information in Physics and Beyond”. Information as basic phenomenon in our world needs a transdisciplinary account, in which physics and other disciplines can add…
Vienna 2016 | Hamid Ekbia | Computing and Capitalism: Dynamics of Systemic Change
The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society invited Hamid Ekbia as keynote speaker for their meeting that took part in the framework of the emcsr avantgarde 2016 on 1 April, 2016. Hanid Ekbia – at his stay in Vienna being a Senior Fellow at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) – is Associate Professor…
Emergent Systems, Information and Society Meeting
The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society held a meeting in the framework of emcsr avantgarde 2016. Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, held a keynote on the most recent phase in the co-evolution of computing and…
Paris 2015 | Manfred Drack | Theoretical biology and the organism concept: a historical perspective
At the conference on “Biological complexity and organization: theoretical approaches and applications”, organized by Ana Soto, from 5 to 6 May 2015, Manfred Drack gave a talk on “Theoretical biology and the organism concept: a historical perspective”, underlining the importance of the organism concept in biology and beyond. See here.
Vienna 2001 | Bertalanffy’s 100 Anniversary Conference (BAC 2001)
Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference 2001 The very first call to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Bertalanffy’s Birthday were essentially concerned with the conceptual of General Systems Weltanschauung as an indispensable framework needed for helping the humans to search how to make sustainable the dynamics of their civilization. The first announcement was…