The Institut für Design Science München invited the fourth time to the annual conference at Leucorea in Wittenberg, Germany, featuring affiliates of GSIS.

The core theme was, as always, on structural transformation and public discourse and reflected ongoing research and teaching. The lectures will be published in volume 5 of the yearbook Signifikant in 2022 and in volume 2 of a book series on the dialectics of nature in 2021, both with a Berlin publishing house.

Besides, another theme was on the meaning of life in the universe. Preliminary work on that theme was published only recently.

GSIS Members Annette Grathoff, Tomáš Sigmund and José María Díaz Nafría could follow the invitation of Rainer E. Zimmermann and presented talks related to their respective projects Evolution of Information Processing Systems, Information Ethics and glossaLAB. The meeting was held face-to-face from 10 to 12 September 2021.