The BCSSS proudly presents the first Special Award for ‘Action on Climate Change’ in cooperation with IIID
In Spring 2020 the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) called for the IIID Award, a great celebration of what Information Designers contribute to Society. They apply Creativity and Design Thinking to solve complex Communication Problems, and to improve every aspect of Human Life. When we travel, information designers help us…
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…
Vienna 2017 | Workshop | Systems Approaches to Information Ethics III
The third meeting of the project “Systems Approaches to Information Ethics” was held in Vienna 13-17 November 2017. The topics included: foundational questions of systems approaches (evolutionary theory, emergentist systemism and normativity; information in the context of Being and non-being, actuality and potentiality, and existence and non-existence); problems of Information…
Call for Proposals! 10th Congress of the European Union for Systemics 2018
EUS – UES 2018 A Systemic Vision of the Crises From optimization to change strategy? 10th Congress of the European Union for Systemics 15th to 17th October 2018 Brussels, Belgium Although raised many times on other congresses, the theme of crisis is still not depleted. Indeed, questions related to visible…
Gabriele Bammer: A new discipline for “Integration and Implementation Sciences”?
On 14 June Professor Gabriele Bammer is visiting our Center. She will give a talk with the title: “The Challenges of Integration and Implementation in Systems Approaches to Complex Problems. Would a New Discipline Help?” For Integration and Implementation Sciences click here: http://i2s.anu.edu.au/. Gabriele Bammer (photo: http://epress.anu.edu.au/author/gabriele-bammer) Gabriele Bammer is Director of…