projects
(data referring to the time before 1990 are not complete due to reports not available, since in september 1990 the Austrian Academy of Sciences provoked a preliminary investigation by public prosecution taking recourse to the intelligence service of the ministry of the interior (Staatspolizeilicher Dienst) and locked out all employees of the Institute for Socio-Economic Development Research and Technology Assessment by means of police force – a measure that, finally, proved unjustified)
@ The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vienna
“Konvivialität und künstliche Intelligenz”, Universität Hamburg, 10-12/2023
@ Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Vienna
“Projekt Vernadskij”, Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V., 2010–2013 (Co-worker)
“SNS3 – Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society”, Austrian Science Fund, 9/2010–2/2013 (Advisory Board)
“Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS)”, COST Action IS0807, 4/2009–4/2013 (Co-worker)
“BITrum: Interdisciplinary Elucidation of the Information Concept”, 11/2008– (Scientific Committee), INTECO, León, and Universidad de León, Spain
@ Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna
“Systems approaches to information ethics”, 2017 (Co-leader with Tomas Sigmund, Department of Systems Analysis, University of Economics, Prague)
“Social Morphogenesis”, Centre for Social Ontology, University of Warwick (formerly EPFL), 1/2012–1/2016 (Collaborator)
“Systems in Biology”, 3/2011–2/2015 (Cooperation partner)
German edition of Edgar Morin’s six volumes oeuvre “La Méthode”, vol. 2-6, 2011– (Editor)
“Reconstruction of and addenda to Bertalanffy’s General System Theory as a headstone of a new philosophical anthropology (part 2)”, wien kultur, 3/2009, Hochschuljubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien, MA 8, 12/2009 (Coordinator)
“ESCO: Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics online”, 6/2008– (Coordinator)
“Reconstruction of and addenda to Bertalanffy’s General System Theory as a headstone of a new philosophical anthropology (part 1)”, wien kultur, 1/2008–3/2008 (Coordinator)
Establishing the Bertalanffy Archive in Vienna, 2004
German edition of Mark Davidson’s “Uncommon Sense – The Life and Thought of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Father of General Systems Theory”, 2004–2005
@ Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
International ICTs-and-Society Network Launch Meeting, 6/2008 (Partner)
German edition of Edgar Morin’s six volumes oeuvre “La Méthode”, vol. 1, 2006–2010 (Editor)
Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2006, Salzburg, 7/2006 (Organiser)
@ Vienna University of Technology
“Human Strategies in Complexity: Philosophical Foundations for a Theory of Evolutionary Systems”, EC (INTAS), 7/2001–12/2004 (Coordinator)
“Myzel – Selbstorganisation in vernetzten Welten, Konzept für ein Spiel” (Self-organisation in networked worlds), BMBWK, 8/2000–7/2001 (Coordinator)
“Design and Socio-Cultural Evolution”, pilot study for the University of Technology, Sydney, 9/1999 (Coordinator)
“Internet in Asia”, EC (INCO-DC), 3/1998–2/2000 (Coordinator)
“Politik und Philosophie elektronischer Vernetzung – ungarisch-österreichische Ansätze und Erfahrungen” (Politics and philosophy of electronic networking), IFK, 4/1995–3/1997 (Co-worker)
“Zur Genese von Informationsstrukturen” (On the genesis of information structures), FWF, 2/1993–1/1995 (Co-worker)
“Ökonomisch-ökologische Modellbildung”, BMUJF, 9/1992–1/1993 (Co-worker)
“Innovationszählung in Österreich”, BMWF, Bundeskammer der gewerblichen Wirtschaft, 1992 (Co-worker)
“Neue Wege zur Messung des Sozialprodukts”, BMUJF, 1991–1992 (Co-worker)
@ Austrian Academy of Sciences
“Vorprojekt zur Erarbeitung strategischer Kriterien für die Technikgestaltung und über die Entwicklungsaussichten sozio-ökonomisch-ökologischer Systeme”, BMWF, 1989–1990 (Co-worker)
“Erstellung eines Systemdynamikmodells der österreichischen Wirtschaft”, FWF, before 1990 (Co-worker)
“Wirtschaftswachstum und Strukturwandel – Ökonomische Theorie auf dem Personalcomputer”, Jubiläumsfonds der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank,before 1990 (Co-worker)
“Perspektiven von Technologie und Arbeitswelt in Österreich”, BMWF, before 1990 (Co-worker)
“Anwendungskonzepte flexibler Automation in Klein- und Mittelbetrieben (Vorstudie)”, BMWF, before 1990 (Co-worker)
“Industrieroboter in Österreich”, Jubiläumsfonds der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank, before 1990 (Co-worker)
@ other
“Wissenschaft – Sprachspiel oder allgemeine Arbeit?”, Wissenschaftsstipendium des Kulturamts der Stadt Wien, before 1990