Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation Date: 26-28 October 2023 Venue: 4lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien Organisation GSIS in co-operation with partners:Club of ViennaDegrowth ViennaDFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit”, Universität Hamburg (DFG-KFG)Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF)Fridays for Future…

At the first GSIS conference in Vienna in October 2023, people from science, research and business as well as artists shed light on the current polycrisis from different perspectives. They explored the paradigm changes needed to transform our societies and…

Hans-Jörg Kreowski, professor at the faculty of mathematics and computer science of Universität Bremen, co-head of the GSIS Emergent Systems group, concluded the farewell session with a poem, made up of words that he collected at the three days event:…

Three intense days, over 70 of active participants, guests from all continents: this is the result of UTOPIA(S) RELOADED organised by #GSIS on 26-28 October in Vienna. We aimed to create an inclusive and diverse platform for scholars, experts and…

Date: 26-28 October 2023 Venue: 4lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien (click here) and click here Registration until 15 October (closed) Follow the news (click here) Organisation GSIS in co-operation with partners:Club of ViennaDegrowth ViennaDFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit”, Universität Hamburg (DFG-KFG)Forum…

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…

“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…

These two topics were dealt with at the regular autumn meeting of the Institut für Design Science München in Wittenberg. This fifth meeting took place from 9 to 11 September 2022. Though, at a first glance, these topics (see programme)…

On 19 June 2022, a peace event will accompany the 1st UN Conference of the Partner States of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna. This event is organised by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), the Aktionsbündnis…

“Responsibility to protect” (R2P) was introduced to justify “humanitarian interventions”. In view of the age of global challenges, Wolfgang Hofkirchner proposes a new concept: the responsibility to protect all of humanity from annihilism. Annihilism is the explicit justification or trivialisation…