Chilean Social Capital Circle presents: Carlos Vignolo (PISCT)
Join Professor Carlos Vignolo to explore the profound foundations of human interaction and community development. Discover how the biology of knowing, conversation, and love constitute the fundamental path to co-constructing the social capital our society needs!
NOTE: This event is in SPANISH. For participants on Zoom who do not speak Spanish, Zoom’s live caption translation feature will be enabled, allowing automatic captioning into English and other languages supported by Zoom’s translation system.
Webinar Outline
Invited Speaker: Carlos Vignolo Friz | Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile
The 6th Chilean Social Capital Circle Encounter features academic and researcher Carlos Vignolo Frizin a session titled «Biology of Knowing, Conversing, and Loving: An Option for Building Social Capital». This session will focus on the convergence of a radical constructivist philosophical platform with advances in neuroscience, systems engineering, and socio-emotional approaches applied to innovation and public management.
Participants will explore the theoretical and practical foundations of Sociotechnology, a discipline oriented toward strengthening social capital through the expansion of self-awareness. Through this lens, the presentation will demonstrate how conversational processes and the recognition of love within organizational and community settings can deconstruct cultural pathologies, transform distrust, and drive processes of integral human development and rehumanization.
About the Presenter
Carlos Vignolo Friz is an Industrial Civil Engineer and holds a Master of Science in Engineering, specializing in Economic Engineering, from the University of Chile, as well as postgraduate free studies in Political Economy and Economic Development from the University of Sussex, UK. He has a distinguished career spanning over 50 years as a Full Professor and Researcher in the Department of Industrial Engineering (DII) at the University of Chile, where he has been honored with the Undergraduate Teaching Award and the DII Teaching Trajectory Award. He currently serves as the Director of the Innovation and Sociotechnology Program (PIST) and Director of the Program for Strengthening Social Capital and Generating a Culture of Innovation in the Aysén Region (KAYSEN).
Throughout his career, he has been a global pioneer in integrating socio-emotional skills into engineering education , notably creating the “Leadership and Social Innovation” course and the elective “Design and Management of Self,”the latter historically co-taught with Professor Humberto Maturana. In the field of applied public policy and corporate governance, he served on the Board of Directors of the Chilean Government Innovation Lab , the Higher Executive Council of Fundación Chile , and has been a visiting professor and researcher at international institutions such as ESADE in Barcelona and the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of numerous publications and international conference papers focusing on paradigmatic revolution, post-rationalist management, and technologies applied to social capital construction.
