Mr Thomas Biedermann

Thomas is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Cybernetics, at the Australian National University (ANU).  

He integrates his background in systems engineering and interests in organisational design to research and deploy methods to create safe, sustainable, and responsible systems. His approaches draw on cybernetics,  visual arts, and playcentric and embodied methods, to support diverse participants in imagining and acting towards hopeful futures.   

He has applied these approaches in various contexts and at various scales, including a Sino-French joint research lab on haematology in Shanghai; the science diplomacy sections of French embassies in the USA and Australia; and the Australian Higher Education sector. Prior to his current role, he has served as inaugural manager of the 3AI Innovation Institute at ANU, and inaugural program manager for the ANU-wide decarbonisation program, Below Zero.  

Thomas enjoys combining analysis and his systems engineering training with the creativity and joyfulness of visual arts and gameful design to support major societal transformations.  

• Cybernetics and systems
• Futures thinking
• Transdisciplinary leadership to foster cultures of innovation
• Sustainability practice: transformational change in complex organisations 
• Participatory processes: co-design for decision-making and stakeholder engagement 
• Games-based learning: for professional development

Master of Systems Engineering - Ecole Centrale de Marseille, 2009