This conference is designed around the exploration of understanding and acting as circularly conjoined. Acting and understanding will be given equal weight, with each framing the other. The processes of learning are a major means of moving between the two, and take place in an environment, often framed as formal or informal education. Discussion of these processes and context provide a means of relating practical proposals for interventions and theoretical debate. Read more…

Teil der Welt. Fraktale einer Ethik oder Heinz von Foersters Tanz mit der Welt (2. Auflage) by Heinz von Foerster and Monika Bröcker.

Eine detailreiche Biographie von Heinz von Foerster, die Einblick gibt in sein Lebenswerk und seine wichtigsten Ideen vorstellt.

Konstruktivismus und Pädagogik by Holger Lindemann.

“Lindemann’s book is a competent and very valuable introduction to the ideas of constructivism and their application to pedagogy.” (Ernst von Glasersfeld)

An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL), 1958-1976 edited by Albert Müller & Karl Müller, published by Edition Echoraum 2007.

“This is a fascinating analysis of the scientific agenda of Heinz von Foerster, clearly one of the major scientists of the twentieth century.” (J. R. Hollingsworth, Univ. Wisconsin)

Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition by Heinz von Foerster, published by Springer-Verlag 2003.

In these essays Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge..