The purpose of the talks about “Utopia(s) reloaded: Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation” we are preparing for 26-28 October 2023 is to raise awareness of the scientific basis on which action can be effective in overcoming the current polycrisis.…
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The purpose of the talks about “Utopia(s) reloaded: Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation” we are preparing for 26-28 October 2023 is to raise awareness of the scientific basis on which action can be effective in overcoming the current polycrisis.…
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The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) calls for a paradigm change in the study of information at the Summit 2023 in Beijing, convened by the China Chapter of IS4SI. The message is: A physical approach is deemed…
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Yagmur Denizhan, full time faculty member at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Head of the Graduate Program in Systems and Control Engineering, published the outcome of her talk in February 2022 as Research Article…
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Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and Mälardalen University is this semester Guest Professor at the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School. Her VU Lecture and Exercise course is called Digital Ethics and the Connected World. On 5 May…
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Under this title Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Professor of Interaction Design at Chalmers University of Technology and Professor of Computer Science at Mälardalen University, Sweden, affiliated to our Emergent Systems Group, will hold a lecture on 4 May 2023 at the TU…
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The programme of the glossaLAB international workshop “From Information to Insights” has been updated. For details click on the picture above to enlarge it. Registration: inscription as face-to-face or online participant. Please do it if you haven’t done it. We…
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In the aftermath of the glossaLAB project, a second international workshop will be held in Spain 2023 as sequel of the one held there in 2022. Time will be devoted to the discussion of INSIGHT as a follow-up project. See…
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Before the turn of the millennium, French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin drew attention to the “Homeland Earth” of a common humanity.[i] However, such ideas no longer seem to play a major role in the new millennium, while a multiple…
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A book on degrowth has been published. The book is a project of Degrowth Vienna as a follow up to the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020: Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation. It covers 19 chapters by over 50 authors on more than 400 pages. Degrowth…
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