Keynote at the invitation of CIRCULAR4.0 “The European Green Deal – Economic Potential for SMEs”
Umweltcluster Bayern once again extended an invitation to an exchange of experts as part of the CIRCULAR4.0 project. BCSSS Managing Director Stefan Blachfellner presented the European Green Deal and its economic potential for SMEs with the support structures in Austria and Germany and discussed with experts from countries in the…
Research Group System Science and Pattern Literacy – 2018 Activity Report
The Group’s Objectives and Organization The BCSSS Research Group System Science and Pattern Literacy was launched in October 2017 by Maria Lenzi and Helene Finidori to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields interested in the connection between patterns and systems. Our research is dedicated to the development of socio-technical…
Join the Journey – Mapping Patterns Landscape
The newly established BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Pattern Literacy asks for your Expertise. Maria Lenzi & Helene Finidori, the Research Group Leaders, are ready to start their first project, “Mapping Patterns Landscape“. To ensure the completion of the intended “Patterns Landscape” by all domain specific approaches, we invite…
Successful programme by David Rousseau, leader of the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Philosophy, at INCOSE International Workshops (INCOSE IW18)
David Rousseau, leader of the BCSSS Research Group Systems Science and Philosophy participated in this year’s INCOSE International Workshops (International Council on Systems Engineering) (INCOSE IW18) from 20th – 23rd January 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Following an overview session on Model-Based Systems Enginering (MBSE) together with David Long (INCOSE past president…
Systemic Design for Future Mobility at the IIID Traffic & Transport Forum 2017 in Linz, Austria
Stefan Blachfellner, Managing Director of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of the Systems Science, was an invited speaker at the IIID Traffic & Transport Forum in Linz, Austria, 23 – 24 November 2017, organized by the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) and the International Association of Public Transport (UITP)….
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…
Robert K. Logan to start a BCSSS Project on the Origins of Systems Thinking
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 was agreed to start a project on the Origins of…
May 30th 2017. Book Launch! Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change
We are pleased to announce the presentation of the Springer book series “Social Morphogenesis” on May 30th 2017 at the the British Library in London. The Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) carried out five workshops of experts from different fields in a yearly interval, starting in January 2012 and ending…