About
The Collective for Self-organizing Communities in Artificial and Living Systems (CoSOCiALS) is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to advancing theory and practice at the intersection of self-organization, collective intelligence, and organizational design in both artificial and living systems. Formed through the convergence of the SaSSO Workshop (Sustainable and Scalable Self-Organization) and the ALife in Organizations Workshop, CoSOCiALS fosters a vibrant intellectual community bridging artificial life, complex systems, and organizational studies.
The SOCiALS workshops are unique in that they explore questions of self-governance, collective intelligence, and sustainability of social structures through an algorithmic perspective toward organizational design. This includes the study of electronic institutions, the self-organizing processes behind well-functioning hybrid societies, and the emergence of social order and organizations using computational principles. The contributions go beyond the models of such systems; they target the development of an understanding of the fundamental information and information processing that underpins these social structures. Further, the workshops explore the practical implementation of such processes in living, artificial, and hybrid systems, with a strong focus on methodologies that promote reflexive, adaptive, and ethically attuned systems design.