Joon Kim, Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) (see photo left), and his wife Haeok Lee, psychologist (see photo right), met with Wolfgang Hofkirchner in Vienna on 8 April 2019. Kim and Lee translated Hofkirchner’s book Twenty questions about a…
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Institut für Design Science München, Rainer E. Zimmermann invited to a continuation of the Berlin meeting a year before (see here). The event took place 5-7 October 2018 at the Leucorea,…
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The Emergent Systems Group initiated a workshop in the framework of the 10th conference of Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM), hosted by the Johannes Kepler University Linz (see photo from LinzWiki), with the intent to extend the focus of innovative approaches to…
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On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Wolfgang Coy, German expert in Informatics and Society, the Emergent Systems Group, together with the Leibniz-Society of Sciences at Berlin, organised on 8 December 2017 a colloquium on “Technik und Literatur” (“Technology…
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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…
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In the aftermath of a preparatory meeting in Vienna before Easter 2017 and the respective workshop at the IS4SI Summit Gothenburg 2017, ten members of the Emergent Systems Group met at HTW, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, 21-22 September…
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The Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group organised three workshops at the “IS4SI Summit Gothenburg 2017”, the biannual conference of the „International Society for the Study of Information“ as that society was renamed in Gothenburg. The Summit was held…
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20-21 May 2017 took place at the University of Westminster, hosted by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies. Christian Fuchs was Conference Co-Convenor and Chair. The symposium invited ten speakers, among them Antonio Negri. It was supported by the journal tripleC.…
In the week before Easter 2017, the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science hosted three events organised by the Emergent Systems Group as a prelude to three workshops to be held by the group at the IS4SI Summit…
Recent literature suggests the appearance of information that is coupled to significance not only with the advent of biotic agents (“meaning“ in living systems) but already with prebiotic environments, namely, with the existence of agents (non-living, physical systems) that – according to the fourth law of thermodynamics after Stuart…
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