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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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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,…

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Systems Sciences meet Systems Engineering

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Meetings, Research, Systems Science and Philosophy

A small group of international experts from both systems sciences and systems engineering met in the beginning of November for a six days conversation in a research retreat near Cómpeta (Malaga, Spain). Janet Singer, an independent researcher, member of the ISSS, convoked that group…

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Vienna 2012 | European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2012 (EMCSR 2012)

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in emcsr, Meetings

From 10 to 13 April 2012 the Campus of the University of Vienna was the venue of the EMCSR 2012. 168 academics and practitioners attended the conference as well as 17 journalists (13 of whom were in training at the…

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