Fritjof Capra

(Vienna, Austria, 1939)

Doctor in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna, he has worked as a researcher in subatomic physics at the University of Paris, at the University of California (UC) in Santa Cruz, at the London Linear Accelerator and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He has also been a professor at the University of San Francisco. Recognized for his work in promoting ecological education, educator and author of many international best-sellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader ones in worldview and societal values.
He became world famous for his book The Tao of Physics, published in 1975 and in which he presented how modern physics had changed our worldview from mechanistic to holistic and ecological, seeking commonalities between Western and Eastern approaches to physics. reality.
Over the past 30 years, he has developed a systematic analysis of how other sciences and society continue to lead similar advances in worldview or paradigm breaking. Capra is director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, based in Berkeley and dedicated to advancing ecology and systems thinking in elementary and secondary education. Fritjof Capra is also the author of Ecological literacy, The Science of Leonardo, The Ecology of Law and The Web of Life, in which he presents a unified vision of the biological, cognitive, social and ecological dimensions of life.

He has participated in the Medialab Madrid samples and exhibitions: Cibervisión02_fluid dynamics, banquet_metabolism and communication, banquet_communication in evolution, Digital Transit or Postmedia Condition