Call for papers! International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 2020, Norway
The System Dynamics Society calls for your participation in the 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society 19 – 23 July 2020 Bergen, Norway Hindsight in 2020: Learning from the Past to Inspire the Future The 38th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society will honor the 20th anniversary…
BCSSS Board member Ray Ison publishes new book on the hidden power of systems thinking
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 has published a new book to uncover “The Hidden Power of…
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…
Groundbreaking new apprenticeship program promotes systems science principles in practice
Building on a 2017 initiative by Ray Ison, BCSSS board member, IFSR president and professor at the Open University UK, in convening a meeting of employers from which emerged an employer-led Trailblazer Committee, the UK the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education has recently approved a new Master’s level apprenticeship…
Postgraduate Vacancy – Lecturer in Thinking in Practice at the Open University in Milton Keynes
The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, is looking for a lecturer in System Thinking in Practice (STiP). Apply for an exciting job before the closing date on the 25th of April 2019. The Open University is recognized internationally as a pioneer of Systems Thinking in Practice education, scholarship and…
Mapping the Landscape of Patterns Across Domains – Vol. 2: Linguistic and Semantic Analysis
This is the second set of results from the Survey Mapping the Landscape of Patterns across Domains initiated by the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Pattern Literacy in early 2018. Our intention here was to extract linguistic and semantic regularities from the survey answers where respondents defined patterns in…
Opportunities and Limits of an Eco-Systems View beyond Socio-Ecological Systems
“Innovation and Optimization in Nature and Design” was the topic of #ISSS2018, the 62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Science (ISSS) 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….
We welcome a new BCSSS Research Group on “Systems Science and Pattern Literacy”
We are pleased to announce the start of the new BCSSS Research Group “Systems Science and Pattern Literacy”. The mission of the group leaders Maria Lenzi and Helen Finidori is to explore the development of Systems to promote Pattern Literacy. “We see Pattern Literacy as an essential component of new…