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…

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)

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.

Seconde cybernétique et complexité. Rencontres avec Heinz von Foerster edited by Evelyne Andreewsky & Robert Delorme, published by Editions l’Harmattan 2006.

contains papers from the conference “De la Cybernétique aux Systèmes Complexes. Un hommage à Heinz von Foerster”, Paris 2004, and original papers from Heinz von Foerster

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)