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Helene Finidori presented Pattern Literacy in Support of Systems Capability at INCOSE IW2020

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Meetings, Systems Science and Pattern Literacy

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,…

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Call for papers! WOSC & ASC Conference Moscow September 2020

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Calls

In September 2020 two conferences on Systems Science and Cybernetics are taking place in Moscow. 18th WOSC Congress 16 – 18 September 2020 Systems approach and cybernetics, engaging the future of mankind – The significance Call for active participation Increasingly,…

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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 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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Article on the Contribution of the Systems Sciences to the Humanities by BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo is now available online

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Marina Naomi Noack Posted in Publications, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design, Systems Science and Philosophy

Alexander Laszlo, BCSSS President, has, together with Ervin Laszlo published an article on “The Contribution of the Systems Sciences to the Humanities”, in 2003. The full article is now availabe online. Summary. The article presents the systems sciences as a…

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New Volume of the Springer Book Series “Translational Systems Sciences”

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Publications, Systems Science and Philosophy

We are pleased to announce the online publication of Volume 13 of the Springer Book Series “Translational Systems Sciences” by a team of authors of the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Philosophy. Update September 2018: with now more than…

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Robert K. Logan to start a BCSSS Project on the Origins of Systems Thinking

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Research, systema, Uncategorized

Marshall McLuhan expert and evolutionary systemist, Robert K. Logan, Fellow of the BCSSS and member of the “Emergent Systems Group”, made a stop-over in Vienna (August 21/22, 2017). From the left: Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Bob Logan, Annette Grathoff (photo: Hofkirchner) It…

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Transhumanism – Netizens – Information in Evolutionary Systems: Three sections at Gothenburg June 2017

Posted on January 15, 2017 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Calls, Emergent Systems Information and Society, Research

The BCSSS Research Group on “Emergent systems, information and society” calls for papers and participation in three sections of the International Society for Information Studies Summit that will take place in Gothenburg from 12 to 16 June 2017. That Summit…

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