life | BCSSS

Tag: life

MUELLER-DIVJAK exhibition receives enthusiastic response by audience and press

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Systems Science and Pattern Literacy

The vernissage of the exhibition “77.000 GENERATIONS. Berta says: We need a new conception of man” by the artists and BCSSS friends MUELLER-DIVJAKwas opened on January 17 and received with enthusiasm by the audience and the press. The magazine “NEUE…

Tagged with: 77.000, acting, actively, apocalyptic, approach, artists, audience, austria, BERTA, bregenz, communicates, composed, conception, conceptions, contact, contribute, conversational, coverage, dinners, discover, encouragement, engage, environment, exhibition, exhibits, experiences, firsthand, General Systems Theory, generations, global crises, guests, guided tours, humans, impact, individual, inspired, installation, intellectuality, interactive, invite, Jeanette Müller, künstlerhaus, life, magazine, mueller-divjak, music, nachrichten, paths, playful, poetic, press, published, relevant, scenario, scents, scientific, senses, southeast asia, special events, sum of its parts, systems science, tageszeitung, thinking, vernissage, visitors, vorarlberger, walking meditation, whole

Science meets art – a convergence, imagination and new perspectives on a history and its future

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Archive, Systems Science and Pattern Literacy

The artist duo MUELLER-DIVJAK are currently hosting an exhibition entitled “77.000 GENERATIONS – Berta says: We need to find a new conception of man“. For this event and for a new generation of systems science communication, BCSSS board member Jeanette…

Tagged with: 77.000, academic, archive, artist, artistic, arts, basic principles, beauty, BERTA, bertalanffy, bertalanffy archive, board member, center, century, classic, communication, complex, conception, conditions, contact, contemporary, cooperate, cultural, cybernetics, dynamics, efforts, enabling, engaging, exhibition, experience, figure, first order, future, General Systems Theory, generations, genius, heritage, intellectuality, janine benyus, Jeanette Müller, legend, life, ludwig, manifestation, maria magdalena, mechanistic, motivated, mueller-divjak, muse, organismic, partners, Paul Divjak, person, public, reflected, relationships, relevance, research, role, science communication, secretary, senses, support, systems science, theoretical, view, von bertalanffy, world, worldview

Delegation from the Art Academy of Latvia show interest in systems science principles for design

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Angelika Schanda Posted in Lectures, Meetings, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

On May 5, Master’s students from the Functional Design Department of the Art Academy in Riga, Latvia requested to visit the Bertalanffy Center for an introduction to systems science and design. They spent an internship of two months at hi-pe.at,…

Tagged with: advertising, aesthetics, amplifier, analysis, Angelika Schanda, architecture, art, art academy, assumptions, barbara abele, battle, behaviors, big data, capacity, changing, common sense, communication, computer modeling, conclusions, connections, conscious, contact, context, contribution, conversations, critical, critically, data driven, decision bias, decisions, design, designers, develop, domains, dynamics, effects, electronics, enable, evening news, express, facts, false portrayal, findings, founder, functional design, generations, guidance, hi-pe, Ilze Dobele, impact, internship, language, latvia, latvian, lector, lecture, life, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Martin Fößleitner, media, meeting, mirror, mistake, narratives, need, nudge, partner, political, prestigious, principles, products, public space, purposely, reflecting, reflection, reporting, riga, role, science, scientific, self-perception, social interactions, societal, society, stefan blachfellner, structures, students, symbolisms, System Dynamics, systems, systems science, urgent, views, visualizations, zeitgeist

Global Brain Singularity: Universal history, future evolution and humanity’s dialectical horizon

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Stefan Blachfellner Posted in Lectures, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

We invite you to join us at the BCSSS, Paulanergasse 13, 1040 Vienna, on Tuesday September 25th, 2018 at 5pm (with a follow up conversation until 7pm) to meet with Cadell Last, PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. If…

Tagged with: big history, biocultural, Cadell Last, complex dynamics, cosmic evolution, dialectical, dynamics, economics, existence, Francis Heylighen, fundamentals of growth, future, future evolution, future of evolution, global brain, Global Brain Singularity, global civilization, horizon, human minds, human system, humanity, intelligent, interconnected network, interventions, life, mechanisms, metasystem, Montparnasse Initiative, phenomenon, politics, process, psychosocial, reasonable, reproduction, technological, transformations, transition, understanding, universal, Universal history

Klaus Kornwachs 70 years old: an “interim report”

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Uncategorized

Klaus Kornwachs (photo: Leonhard Kornwachs) Ulm University celebrated the 70th birthday of Klaus Kornwachs, system theorist and philosopher of technology, member of our Scientific Council. The Humboldt-Studienzentrum für Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, part of the School of Humanities, convened on October…

Tagged with: academic, activities, bachelor, betterment, Brandenburg University of Technology, Center for Technology and Society, chair of Philosophy of Technology, China Intelligent Urbanization Co-Creation Center, cottbus, Culture and Technology, Deutsche Akademie für Technikwissenschaften, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemforschung, diploma, emergent systems, festschrift, Fraunhofer Institute, freiburg, geisteswissenschaften, Hochschule Konstanz, Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Studienzentrum, impact, Industrial Engineering, information, klaus kornwachs, life, master study, mathematics, member, open systems, participants, philosopher, philosophie, physics, post-graduate, Prof. Renate Breuninger, professions, School of Humanities, Scientific Council, seminar, Shanghai, society, society and information, Stuttgart, system theorist, technology, Tongji University, tübingen, uml university, Verein der Deutschen Ingenieure, Volker Friedrich, Wolfgang Hofkirchner

“Meaning“ did not emerge like a bolt from the blue

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Meetings

Recent literature suggests the appearance of information that is coupled to significance not only with the advent of biotic agents (“meaning” in living systems) but already with prebiotic environments, namely, with the existence of agents (non-living, physical systems) that – according…

Tagged with: agents, biotic, cycle, emergence, energy, entropy, fields, fields of possibilities, foundations, information, International Society for Information Studies, Kaufmann, Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, life, living, mass, matter, meaning, non-being, non-living, nothingness, philosophical, physical, possibilities, self-organise, significance, structure, systems, thermodynamics

Call for Papers and Participation ISSS 2016 Special Integration Group on Socio-Ecological Systems in Boulder, USA, July 24-30, 2016

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Stefan Blachfellner Posted in Calls, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

In 2016 we continue our successful collaboration with the International Society for the Systems Sciences. The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science calls for your papers and participation in this years meeting in Boulder, USA from 24-30 July…

Tagged with: agriculture, architects, architecture, bcsss, bertalanffy, Biodiversity, Biological, biologists, biomimicry, biosphere, blachfellner, boulder, Business Ecosystems, call, center, challenges, colorado, competencies, complex, complexity, computational, concepts, conversation, cooperation, decode, design, designers, designing, developing, disciplines, diversity, ecologies, economists, encode, engineering, engineers, environment, epistemology, evolutionary, flourishing, futurable, future, futures, general, gestaltung, governmental, group, humanities, humanity, innovation, integration, international, isss, learning, life, living, meaningful, meeting, methodologies, methodology, natural, operating, oriented, papers, paradigm, participation, philosophers, planet, practice, preview, process, projects, public services, regional development, research, research and development, review, rural development, science, sig, smart cognitive cities, social, society, socio-ecological, Spatial, special, strategies, study, supply networks, sustainable, sustainable urbanism, systemic, systems, technological, technologies, theory, thrivable, tools, transdisciplinary, unity, Urban, usa, value networks, werner

We are back, rebooting the system in 2016 – emcsr becomes avantgarde

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Stefan Blachfellner Posted in Calls, emcsr

The European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research will be held in Vienna from March 30th to April 1st, 2016. It will be the first pop up conference meeting in the field of Systems Science, called emcsr avantgarde. The name…

Tagged with: 2016, activist, advances, artist, avantgarde, avantgardist, community, conscious, contemporary, contributions, cybernetics, daring, dates, democracy, designer, economic alternatives, education, emcsr, energy, engineer, european, experience, future, geek, governance, governmental, health care, information technologies, innovator, life, meetings, natural science, network, offers, participation, philosopher, practice, programme, provocative, public transport, rebooting, research, researcher, rural developments, save, social practice, special, students, supply networks, system, systems, technology, telecommunications, thought leader, traffic, urban living, vibrant, vienna, vision, visionary, water