Benefit-Risk Communication at Corona: Aspects of Optimization
Proposal for and report from an interdisciplinary video meeting by Felix Tretter & Stefan Blachfellner on the 1st of February, 2021. Fundamentally, it is in question how a knowledge society can overcome its breaking points of consensus, not only on climate change, but now again on the topic of corona….
BCSSS team joins Global Compact Network Austria workshop on Circular City
For this year’s General assembly of the Global Compact Network Austria on the 24th of March, BCSSS Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner was asked to join the “Circular City” team lead by BCSSS/Global Compact Network Austria Board Member Karin Huber-Heim. The team identifies possible pathways for the implementation of the Sustainable…
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…
Promoting a Systems Perspective at circle-17 Sustainable Startup Event
On the 27th of February a circle-17 matchmaking event took place which BCSSS Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner was invited to participate in. circle-17 is an initiative started by respACT and AustrianStartUps and focuses on helping corporations, NPOs and startups to develop solutions to urgent sustainability challenges. This event in particular…
ONE DAY 2020 conference puts systems change front and center
ONE DAY: The Conference is an annual event to inspire and promote youth leadership in Austria and beyond. By bringing together NGOs, academics, companies and passionate changemakers, the conference asks how we can change systems, specifically in regards to three core topics each year, and co-creates solutions with both students…
Join our Bertalanffy Lecture and Conference Homo Digitalis
****UPDATE 3: You can download the documentation of the online conference here. ——- ***UPDATE 2: We have established the opportunity of an online meeting and thanks to the readiness of our experts will hold the meeting online on March 19, 9am to 12:30pm. If you want to join please visit…
Helene Finidori presented Pattern Literacy in Support of Systems Capability at INCOSE IW2020
25 – 28 January 2020 Torrance, California, USA Annual INCOSE International Workshop 2020 As part as the International Council on Systems Engineering Systems Science Working Group (SSWG) Helene Finidori, Leader of the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Pattern Literacy, attended IW2020 and gave a talk on her work including…
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…