Interdisciplinary Sciences
for a Complex World

Lectures/Symposia

For companies and conferences, in addition to consulting activities, I offer interdisciplinary lectures on selected topics as well as the content organization of conferences and symposia. For example, as part of the "New Thinking" series of events at the Waldhof Academy in Freiburg, I organized several 2-day symposia with different speakers on fundamental topics and held the opening lectures there in each case. For me it was important to examine highly topics in an interdisciplinary way, e.g. from several points of view.

More on previous symposia:

Lectures on "How does the world work?"

The basis of all lectures is information about the laws of nature that rule us, even if we rarely realize it. However, it is much easier to succeed with the laws of nature than against them.

To do this, we need to study the laws of nature more closely and take them as they really are - and not as we would like them to be (namely with linear causalities). The next step is then to recognize the big picture in an interdisciplinary way if we want to understand the high complexity and instability of our modern society and survive and succeed in it. In addition to the recognition of impulse states and the system-theoretical insights into chaordic systems and logical islands, this includes results from evolutionary and game theory.

So, if we want to be successful, we need to better understand the roles of mutation, adaptation, competitiveness, cooperation and sustainability. Then we will realize that it is not we who rule the world, but we are subject to natural laws that will force us to rethink and develop new strategies. Especially because a tipping point has been passed and the systemic limits of our planet are operating.
(References available upon request)

Lectures on Physiconomics

These lectures deal, among other things, with the fundamentals of chaordic systems and summarize the findings of "How Does the World Work?" (see above) and then apply this knowledge to our economic system. Our debt money system is explained and how - together with evolutionary constraints - this results in a growth pressure for the economy. An essential role is played by the tipping point mentioned several times, which is discussed intensively including the changed rules of the game and which - apart from the resulting increase in complexity and instability - is particularly evident in the paradox of the rules of the game of economics (see picture).

Since that our system boundaries have hindered further growth, so the money supply far exceeds the real economy with the result of increasing speculation. The financial system is physically threatened by two developments: either a "black hole" is formed (money disappears due to corporate or bank failures or due to a currency reform) or it is subject to entropy in the form of high inflation (see picture). In this context, the euro currency system is also analyzed under game-theoretical aspects (Target2, etc.). It is these analyses that show that only a change in the financial and economic system can lead to the recovery of stability. If - as expected - no change is feasible, Plan B and resilience strategies will become important.
(References available upon request)

Workshops on resilience

Currently very topical is the subject of resilience, for which a first workshop has also been developed. The aspects of vulnerability, sufficiency, subsistence and flexibility are served as a planning basis for individual decision areas of companies to develop strategies to increase resilience.

Presentations on radical innovation

Radical innovations, which are innovations in the "blue ocean" that really bring something completely new into the world, are characterized in their development by 3 phases that oscillate between convergence (intense rational thinking) and divergence (phase of irrational relaxation).

These 3 phases are the basis of all conscious creativity. But creativity alone is not enough, it needs pedants (“tweakers”) to perfect it and managers and entrepeneurs to bring this innovation into the world. Even this is often not enough today, as the market has developed from a supplier market to a demand market. It is therefore necessary to find resonances in the market and to target them. This leads to a new phenomenon, strategic innovation. (References on request)