Resilience Research & Networks
Highly recommended by The Network Singularity…
New perspectives on growth, development and innovation in instable times.
FAS.research, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) and the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research cordially invite you to participate in a high profile workshop with international experts and practitioners in the fields of resilience research & network theory.
When: 5/27/2010, 8.45 am - 6.00 pm
Where: Haus der Industrie, Urban Saal (1st Floor), Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1031 Wien/Vienna
Registration: office@fas.at
Participation is free for all, but subject to registration.
Please register by sending an e-mail to office@fas.at
Download Schedule and Abstracts
Resilience is about the capacity to deal with (disruptive) change and continue to create value. Resilience research is an ascendant paradigm aiming to model and understand the structural features of systems that determine the capability of organisms, ecosystems, societies, enterprises, economies, etc. to adapt to and shape changes. Network Theory provides a robust language to better describe and understand those features.
The workshop will bring together sociologists, ecologists, economists, policy makers, consultants and social entrepreneurs to exchange perspectives on the value and potential of resilience and network thinking within their research domains.
Learn about the scientific state of the art and how to apply the framework of networks and resilience to improve the robustness and adaptive capacities of your organization, research program, regional network, your city.
Join the discussion on the principles of a new paradigm for growth and development and its consequences for economic and research policy.
SCHEDULE
08:45 REGISTRATION
09:15 WELCOME NOTES
09:25 KEYNOTE LECTURE
• Crawford Stanley Holling (CAN) - Managing the Planet
10:00 RESILIENCE & NETWORKS IN NATURE
(Chair: Harald Katzmair)
• Brian Fath (USA) - Ecological Networks: Mutualism and Complexity
• Benjamin Burkhart (GER) - Dynamics, Resilience and Adaptability in Human-Environmental Systems Studies
• Sergio Ulgiati (ITA) - Putting Metabolic Patterns of Society Within a Larger Perspective
11:15 RESILIENCE & NETWORKS IN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
(Chair: Roland Sommer)
• Bernard Lietaer (FRA) - Network Resilience applied to Financial and Monetary Stability: What Economics should learn from Nature.
• Fred Luks (AUT) - Between Efficiency and Squander? Generosity and the Resilience of Economic Systems
• Uno Svedin (SWE) - Complex Systems, Resilience and the current Global Grand Challenges
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 RESILIENCE & NETWORKS IN RESEARCH POLICY, INNOVATION POLICY & GOVERNANCE
(Chair: Wolfgang Neurath)
• Jill Jaeger (AUT) - Resilience, Sustainability and Research Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
• Christian Gulas (AUT) - Crossing the Chasms of Socio-Ecological Research: Structural Holes and Structural Folds in Basic Research Networks
• Hannes Leo (AUT) - Resilient Decision Making Processes
• Eric Poettschacher (USA) - Business Intelligence and Resilience: Steps towards a robust Marketplace for the global Creative Community
15:10 Coffee Break
15:30 RESILIENCE & NETWORKS IN CULTURE, BUSINESS & POWER
(Chair: Brian Fath)
• Neal Gorenflo (USA) - The Design 4 Resilience Movement
• Balázs László Szekfu (HUN) - All Your Brains Are Belong to Us: Fit Memes make Resilient Stories
• Balazs Vedres (HUN) - Structural Folds: Generative Disruption in Overlapping Groups
• Harald Katzmair (AUT) - The Resilience of Business and Power: The Influence of Systems Ecology on Understanding Social Networks
17:15 LESSONS LEARNED AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Brian Fath (USA)
• Wolfgang Neurath (AUT)
• Roland Sommer (AUT)
• Harald Katzmair (AUT)
18:00 END
Buffet and Evening Program
Organizing Committee
Harald Katzmair, FAS.research
Wolfgang Neurath, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research
Brian Fath, Towson University und IIASA
Roland Sommer, Austrian Industry Association
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