Panta Rhei
Circularis

All things flow in circles.

Dr.techn. Anna-Vera Deinhammer
Integral Engineer & Scientist
Vice President, Circular Economy Forum Austria
Partner, BFA x KLK Architekten
Endowed Professor Sustainable Real Estate Development, FHWien der WKW

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Panta Rhei Circularis is my universe — a thought space for the transformation of the built environment. It connects second-order cybernetics, morphological analysis, and protopian thinking into an operative framework for wicked problems.

The framework draws on Fritz Zwicky, Heinz von Foerster, Kevin Kelly, Donella Meadows, and Marcus Aurelius — not as historical figures, but as active thought-forms inhabiting Syntonia.

Selected Publications

Huber-Heim, K., Laszlo, A. & Deinhammer, A.-V. (2025). Governing the Transition to Circular Economy and Liveable Cities. In: Brears, R. C. (Ed.), The Circular Economy and Liveable Cities. Cambridge University Press, pp. 167–189. DOI

Deinhammer, A.-V. (2025). Kreislaufwirtschaft im Bauwesen: Transformation der Bauindustrie durch gebündelte Expertise und zirkuläre Innovationen. In: Fabisch, N. et al. (Eds.), SDG 8: Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum. Springer Gabler. Springer

Deinhammer, A.-V. (2023). The DNA of the transformation to a regenerative circular economy is a Quadruple Helix. 16th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2023), Wien.

Deinhammer, A.-V. (2025). Kreislaufwirtschaft im Bauwesen: Die protopische Vision für Europa. STRABAG Progress Magazine. Link

Deinhammer, A.-V., Engert, M. & Wehrberger, M. (Eds.) (2024). Handbuch Immobilien und Klimawandel. Linde Verlag, Wien. (Editor and chapter author.)

ÖGNI Working Group on Circular Economy (2022). Kreislaufwirtschaft: STOP TALKING — START ACTING! Position Paper. Austrian Sustainable Building Council (ÖGNI).