An Institute for Research Architectures
The Erpenbach Institute develops and publishes the Erpenbach Research Architecture (ERA): a growing research architecture for questions of reality, knowledge, behaviour, decision, time, coherence and coexistence across human, artificial, animal, cultural, planetary and physically-dynamic systems.
What the Institute does
The Institute develops conceptual research architectures for complex questions that cannot be reduced to a single discipline, method or application.
The Erpenbach Research Architecture connects different models and projects into a larger research framework. It investigates how reality becomes visible, knowledge becomes possible, behaviour becomes comparable, decisions become comprehensible, systems become legible and coexistence becomes shapeable.
The work is directed at researchers, institutions and partners who want to understand, organise or further develop fundamental structures of complex systems.
Why an Institute?
The projects of the Erpenbach Institute are not a loose collection of individual publications. They belong to a growing research architecture in which new work is situated, connected and further developed.
The Institute creates a stable place for this: for publication, classification, licensing, project partnerships and the long-term development of the Erpenbach Research Architecture.
How collaboration is possible
The Erpenbach Institute works selectively with institutions, organisations and project partners whose questions fit the Erpenbach Research Architecture. Collaboration does not arise as general consulting but through clearly defined forms.
Licensing
Selected frameworks and architectures may be licensed for defined institutional, scientific or organisational use.
Architecture Briefs
Written Architecture Briefs apply selected research approaches to concrete structural questions – for classification, clarification and orientation.
Project Partnerships
Project partnerships arise where an external institutional context and the Erpenbach Research Architecture fit together professionally or structurally.
Research and Structuring Mandates
In limited cases, the Institute undertakes commissioned research or structuring work with a clearly defined framework.
What it is not
Leadership
Eva M. Erpenbach is Founder and Scientific Director of the Erpenbach Institute and originator of the Erpenbach Research Architecture. Her work develops conceptual research architectures on reality, knowledge, behaviour, decision, time, coherence and coexistence across human, artificial, animal, cultural, planetary and physically-dynamic contexts.
LinkedIn profilePartnerships
The Institute enters into formal partnerships only where conceptual and structural fit is established. Current project partnerships are documented on the partners page.
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