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Piero Dominici
Dominici, Piero
Dominici, PieroScientific Director, International Research and Education Programme CHAOS; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science |
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Scientific Director, International Research and Education Programme CHAOS; Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science
Piero Dominici (PhD), sociologist and philosopher, Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS), is Scientific Director of the International Research and Education Program CHAOS and Director of Scientific Listening to the Global Listening Center, teaches Public Communication, Sociology of Social Complexity, Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes and Intelligence. Complex Systems and Networks at the University of Perugia. As a scientific researcher, educator, author, and international speaker, his main areas of expertise and interest encompass (hyper)complexity, interdisciplinarity, and knowledge-sharing in the fields of education, systems theory, technology, innovation, intelligence, security, citizenship, and communication. Member of the MIUR Register of Revisers, (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research), and the WCSA (World Complexity Science Academy), he is also a standing member of several of the most prestigious national and international scientific committees. He is currently participating in several international projects: the United Nations/WAAS project "Global Leadership in the 21rst Century" and the project COSY Thinking, an EU-funded Horizon project (2020-2023). Author of numerous essays, scientific articles, and books. Among the scientific accolades received by Dominici, it should be remembered that his treatise "Inside the Interconnected Society. Ethical prospects for a new ecosystem of communication" (published in 2014 by FrancoAngeli, Milan and released in a new 2019 edition entitled "Inside the Interconnected Society. A culture of complexity for inhabiting the boundaries and tensions of the hyper-technological civilization" with the addition of new chapters and updates), received the prestigious International Elisa Frauenfelder Award in the "Culture and Innovation" section.
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Hard Times: The Thinking Crisis in the No-Knowledge Society
( Knowledge, Science & Values )
Hard Times: The Thinking Crisis in the No-Knowledge Society
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The “new” digital (hyper) velocity, in its complex interaction with the human factor and with social relations, preserves the original ambivalence common to any “factor” of change and to any social and cultural process. The complexity of this interaction, apart from representing an extraordinary opportunity, also evades any kind of algorithm or other artificial intelligence systems. The ambivalence and...
War, Complexity, and One-dimensional Thinking: Thinking is Acting
( War in Ukraine ), ( Peace and Security )
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Both democracy (nowadays known as “global democracy”) and war are examples of complexity. Simplification and closing-off (isolation) will never accomplish anything when dealing with either of these kinds of complexity. We have taken for granted that aggression, invasion and war are by definition immoral and illegal and that it is always necessary to distinguish between the “attackers” and the “attacked”, between the “oppressors” and the “oppressed”; war itself, in...
From Below: Roots and Grassroots of Societal Transformation, The Social Construction of Change
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Those who aim for societal transformation, understood as systemic change, must first understand fully what the concept of systemic change indicates and implicates. Historically speaking, even before the scientific world had begun to explore the meaning of complexity, setting forth the unique characteristics of complex systems as opposed to merely complicated systems, the idea of systems itself had revolutionized the entire framework of the sciences, and later, the...
A New Paradigm in Global Higher Education for Sustainable Development and Human Security
( Transdisciplinary theory ), ( Social Science )
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Every institution of higher education and every government is trying to overcome the problems it faces and improve the reach, relevance, financial viability and effectivity of education. But no one is thinking globally for solutions that will be optimal from the perspective of humanity as a whole. The enormous challenges we face in education today can best be solved only by including system-wide action at the global level. A new paradigm needs to be...
Educating for the Future in the Age of Obsolescence
( Education ), ( New Paradigm )
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The anthropological transformation we are undergoing shows the urgency of rethinking teaching and training, underlining the substantial inadequacy of our schools and universities in dealing with hypercomplexity, with the global extension of all political, social and cultural processes, with their indeterminateness, interdependence and interconnection. The idea that educational processes are questions of a purely technical and/or technological nature, solely a...