#emergence Looking back on the last few months and my time in Athens, I wonder how so many experiences and things could happen in such a short time. The whole semester in Athens was full[…]
Interdependent entity
#emergence In this lesson, we had to read an excerpt from a story about two ships that were shipwrecked on the same island, but only one of the sailing parties survived as a whole consisting[…]
Crisis of Perception
#emergence In the last lesson before Christmas, we had to watch the movie Mindwalk from 1990. At first, I was totally surprised that such an “old” movie addresses topics that are still red-hot today. In[…]
Creating our own creative rhizomatic space
#emergence In this lesson we talked about rhizomes and the rhizomatic learning. At first, I was totally confused about this topic because at the beginning we talked about how animals and trees secretly communicate with[…]
Connections are everywhere
#emergence The last lesson was totally different from the previous meeting, but it was a felicitous change compared to the last units. At the beginning we were given the task to write something about our[…]
An ethical dilemma
#emergence In the last lesson, we talked about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it is interfering and changing our daily lives. At the beginning, we had the opportunity to reflect on our own thoughts about[…]
Time to change the feedback loop
#emergence In the last lesson we talked about the topic complexity and related themes like linear vs. complex causality, the butterfly effect and other phenomena. First, we had to reflect on our own about what[…]
systemic wisdom
#emergence The systemic wisdom of indigenous peoples and the way they live with nature without destroying the system made me think about how we as developed industrialized nations treat nature, other species and ourselves. Obviously,[…]
diverse approaches
#Emergence The last lesson and the abundant theoretical input of this course left many thoughts behind. The scientific approach about the analytical reductionism just let me think about how our body with the accumulation of[…]
Introductory meeting
#emergence After running around the whole building and looking for the class, I finally managed to attend the first meeting of the course system theory, psychology and social media. To my surprise it was the[…]