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Register to join the Circular Economy Conference for the Alps Adriatic region

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Calls, Circular Economy Systems

The Slovenian Economic Assoication invites to a Circular Economy Conference for the Alps Adriatic region on February 5, where BCSSS Research Group leader Ladeja Godina Košir will hold a keynote on success factors for pioneers in the circular economy. The…

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BCSSS Board member Ray Ison publishes new book on the hidden power of systems thinking

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Publications, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

In times of great societal changes and challenges such as climate change, the need for new ways of thinking and acting have become urgent. Together with campaigner and writer Ed Straw, BCSSS board member and IFSR president Ray Ison’s published…

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BCSSS becomes an active supporter for a digital humanism

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Human Digitalization, Meetings

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…

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Artists MUELLER-DIVJAK invite to their new exhibition: “77,000 Generations – Berta says: We need a new conception of man”

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Archive, Systems Science and Pattern Literacy

With their new exhibition, MUELLER-DIVJAK (BCSSS board member Jeanette Müller and BCSSS member Paul Divjak) thematize the role that our species can play in shaping their own destiny. The display includes environmental interventions, sculptures, soundscapes, collages and watercolor paintings, texts,…

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New lecture series by BCSSS visiting scholar Cadell Last on ‘Systems Science and Subjectivity’

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Lectures, Systems Science and Philosophy

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…

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Philosopher Cadell Last researches into human evolution and the role of subjective problematics in the anthropocene

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Lectures, Systems Science and Philosophy

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…

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Ethical and Juridical Aspects on Human Digitalization in Health (HDIHA)

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Human Digitalization, Meetings, Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems

Concluding a very successful year for the BCSSS Research Groups ‘Human Digitalization’ as well as ‘Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems’, BCSSS Vice President Felix Tretter organized the sixth symposium in the series of Big Data and Health events on…

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Great interest in systemic perspectives by young changemakers at the Local Conference of the Youth Austria

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Lectures, Meetings, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

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…

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