Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Fachübergreifende Studienangebote
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Standort: Hamburg
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Anzahl Teilnehmer:innen: - | 27
Anmeldegruppe: Q-Studies Master
Leistungsnachweis:
Beschreibung: The brief history of the 21st century appears as a history of disasters and catastrophes. The war in Ukraine, the Covid 19-pandemic, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011, the world financial crises of 2008, recurrent terror and cyber-attacks, infrastructural breakdowns, state failures and the looming climate crises appear to pose ever more daring challenges. The world, it seems, lives in a permanent state of emergency. Although the future appears to become ever more unpredictable, respective scenarios are painted in the grim colors of doom and apocalypse. Somewhere between resignation and the belief to control risks, a new language for the anticipation of catastrophes is emerging. Resilience, preparedness and anti-fragility have become key notions in this new lexicon of coping with imminent threats. Taken from the natural and complexity sciences, these terms turned into shorthand for the ability of complex ecologies to resist, absorb and adapt to shocks. This seminar traces the scientific roots of resilience, preparedness and anti-fragility and explores its consequences for the evolution of organizations, cities, and societies. Debates Futures: From promise of progress to prospect of doom Resilience: The ability of bouncing back (and forward) Preparedness: Anticipating the unknowable Anti-fragility: Shocks as an opportunity to enhance capabilities Principles High-reliability systems: Learning from fire brigades? Organizational slack: Tolerating inefficiency to spur innovation Redundancy: Building robustness through excess capacities Ambiguity: Leveraging tensions and contradictions for creativity Complex adaptive systems: The structural similarities of brains and cities.
Voraussetzung für die Vergabe von CP: Erfolgreiche Teilnahme an einer der vorgegebenen Prüfungsarten: Es besteht Anwesenheitspflicht. Abgabetermin Prüfungsleistung:
