Conferences

Citation

(2001), "Conferences", Kybernetes, Vol. 30 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2001.06730iab.003

Conferences

Conferences

Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference 2001

The Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference for 2001 was titled "Unity Through Diversity" and scheduled for 1-4 November.

The motto of the conference: "Unity Through Diversity", is said to determine not only the substance of the conference but also its form.

A great variety of events differing in nature and in mode of presentation were offered a platform for discussions about specific subjects related to:

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  Bertalanffy's work in the historical context;

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  Bertalanffy's Concept of "General Systems Weltanschauung";

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  Systems Thinking Today.

The planned symposia discussed over the Internet site topics that (http://www.bertalanffy.org/disus) included:

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  e Symposium (I). "The creation of a sustainable society depends on Innovative Systems Thinking (IST)" supported by General Systems Weltanschauung (GSW) aims at exploring how it might be feasible to reach Sustainable Development as a steady state or flow equilibrium of humankind's dynamics (Co-ordinated by John Raven and Elohim, J.).

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  The Symposium (II). "Wholism (or Holism) The way forward into the 21st century" aims at knowing how human beings may learn better to develop a new way of thinking for clearly seeing the forest for the trees, a way that has been variously described as Gestalt, global, molar, integrative, organismic, synergistic, … or better as hoiistic or wholistic (Coordinated by Gyorgy Jaros and Elohim, J.).

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  The Symposium (III). "General Systems Theory as a Methodological Maxim" aims at recognizing "General System Theory (as) an exact doctrine of wholeness as a "pure nature science" or "reine naturwissenschaft", to use Kant's expression – that is, it is a hypothetical-deductive system of those principles which follow from the definition of system and by the introduction of more or less special condition ("Ludwig von Bertalanffy).

XIV International Conference on Systems Science-2001

Professor Robert Vallée, the Director-General, represented WOSC at the XIV International Conference on Systems Science, University of Technology Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2000. Details of the programme were published in Kybernetes, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 140-1, 2001. Proceedings are available from: icss@ists.pwr.wroc.pl