1. Bertalanffy Center awards prize to Edgar Morin In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of complexity thinking, the Bertalanffy Center will award a prize to Edgar Morin. The award ceremony will take place at the forthcoming European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, on 10th of April 2012, 20:00, in Lecture [...]
>> This is a message from Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Chair of the EMCSR 2012 << Dear Participants and Attendees, this year’s EMCSR is coming closer, only a few more days until we all gather in Vienna. With this, I would like to pass on some relevant news and information to take with you next week. Stefan [...]
This is part two of our “Getting to know…” series, in which we invite you to learn more about our speakers and participants. You can find part one presenting some of our keynote speakers here. The speaker profiles include interesting background information, as well as answers to questions we asked them about their fields of [...]
Zdenka Ženko Ph. D. is Assistant Professor of Innovation Theory and System Theory at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Slovenia. She teaches courses in innovation management, system theory, methods for creative thinking and decision making, research in entrepreneurship. Her research includes systemic approach to innovation management, creative thinking and deciding, diffusion [...]
Andrée Piecq graduated from the Free University of Brussels in the faculty of psychology. During 20 years, she led a parallel career as a therapist, teacher, trainer and speaker in systems analysis. In 1975 she co-founded a center for marital and family promotion where she is still active. She has participated in several research, commissioned [...]
Carlos Gershenson is a Mexican researcher. He has a wide variety of academic interests, including self-organizing systems, complexity, artificial life, evolution, cognition, artificial societies, robotics, and philosophy. He is a full time researcher and head of the Computer Sciences Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) of the Universidad [...]
Ranulph Glanville is a British freelance researcher and theoretician in both architecture and cybernetics. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1964 to 1971. He completed a PhD in cybernetics at Brunel University in 1975, and obtained a second PhD in Human Learning from Brunei in 1988. He worked briefly as an architect in [...]
Since we had a closer look at the beginnings of Cybernetics with regard to the Macy Conferences a couple of weeks ago, we now contribute this blogpost to Systems Theory, its history and background especially with regard to the pioneer in this area of research, Ludwig von Bertalanffy. (This post serves more as a collection [...]
In order to familiarize yourself a bit with some of the speakers and participants at this year’s meetings, we’re providing you with a series of in-depth profiles. They include valuable background information, links for further reading and interesting interviews. This first part introduces you to some of our keynote speakers. We hope they put you [...]
Dr. Emery has worked on many aspects of human behaviour as a systemic or ecological phenomenon. These include education and continuing education, the uses and effects of media, the development of organizations and communities and human futures. Since 1970, she has worked to develop both the theory and methods of open systems theory through rigorous [...]
