Ecocivilisation Talks: The Post – Millennial generation and Ecocivilisation
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed once again to the Ecocivilisation talk series with their reflections from a systems perspective. The talk considers the challenges faced by the current generation in an age of unprecedented interconnectedness and the often contradictory needs for community and the search…
Ecocivilisation Talks: Politics and Ecocivilisation Narrative
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed once again to the Ecocivilisation talk series as invited provocateurs from a systems perspective. The “Politics and Ecocivlisation Narrative” talk provides an interesting insight on the interdependency of our political system with environmental conditions and social structures. Watch the full…
Ecovilisation Talks: The emergence of a new civilisation
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed a second time to the Ecocivilisation talk series with their insights from a systems perspective. The talk considers the value of learning about our heritage from a collective point of view and on a global basis, to empower us to…
Ecocivilisation Talks: The roots of civilisations
BCSSS President Alexander Laszlo and Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner contributed to the Ecocivilisation talk series with their valuable insights from a systems perspective. “The Roots of Civilisations” talk discusses learnings from the past, exploring: the basic definition of what the civilisation is, its roots of the concept what has contributed…
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…
The BCSSS co-hosted the Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018
The BCSSS co-hosted, together with the Circular Economy Club Vienna (CEC), the Disruptive Innovation Festival 2018 (DIF) in Vienna. The DIF is the world’s largest online festival of ideas, organized by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It is part of a global initiative, where events are taking place at different spots throughout…
BCSSS Dialogue. April 12th 2017 “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism”
On April 12th 2017 the Bertalanffy Center invites to a discussion on Transhumanism introduced by a critical talk by Janina Loh “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism” and a statement “The Ghost of Transhumanism and the Sentience of Existence” by Sarah Spiekermann. Janina Loh is University Assistant…
Imaginaries of Cyber Futures on the testbed of Information Ethics
Tomáš Sigmund from the University of Economics Prague and Wolfgang Hofkirchner hold together a course module at the Vienna University of Technology. The module on Designing technosocial systems focuses in the summer semester 2017 besides systems approaches and systemic approaches to information, information technologies and information society on information ethics and future…