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AVATAR – SYZYGY: Andersson, Norman, Sweeting, Wihart
No full text"These architectural works by Ben Sweeting, Lena Andersson, Tim Norman and Michael Wihart seek to create new relationships between architecture, landscape, space, time, duration and geography. These pieces and their relationship to one another are highly 'Pataphysical, their logistics of form are conditioned by notions of variance, alliance and deviance. Such ideas produce a very rich formal and Surreal architectural language bursting with potential." - Prof. Neil Spiller, Director Avata
From experimental epistemology to experimental architecture
Get PDFA life-long beacon for Lebbeus Woods was his understanding of the ideas of second-order cybernetics and attempts to assimilate them into his architectural projects. An introduction to this discourse was provided in Urbana-Champaign in the early 1960s by his most important intellectual mentor, cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster. Poised at the intersection of architecture and cybernetics, Ben Sweeting charts some of the lines of their interactions and friendship
Cybernetics: Art, design, mathematics - A meta-disciplinary conversation:Papers from the 2010 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics
No full textThis special double edition of Kybernetes, guest edited by Ranulph Glanville and Ben Sweeting, comprises papers from the 2010 Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics 'Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation' held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA. The conference featured cyberneticians, artists, musicians, architects, designers and mathematicians and explored and developed connections between these different fields through structured discussions and the open exchange of ideas. Two themes focused the discussions and papers: (1) the relation between abstract and actual and (2) cross over processes/ trans-, intra-, meta-
The Dialogical, The Ecological and Beyond
Get PDFIn this article Jon Goodbun and Ben Sweeting engage in a conversation about design and its complex relation to communication. They look at the role of dialogue, the dialogical (signifying signs), and the limitations of the dialogical as one considers contemporary processes of cybernetisation and how “asignifying signs” are produced and exchanged within complex systems of all kinds. Prompted by the opening question referring to cybernetics as a general study of information processes, focusing on the production, exchange, and consumption of meaning, not limited to a focus on digital logic, Goodbun and Sweeting revisit a plethora of positions on dialogue including those of Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Ranulph Glanville, David Bohm among others. In so doing, they make clear certain semantic confusions related to terms such as communication vs. conversation, dialogue vs. discussion, and analogue vs. digital, and provide a richer understanding of why these semantic revisions are necessary for the context of everyday design practice. Using examples from their own research and teaching work, they point towards models where an alternative approach to communication that critically acknowledges the complications related to “asignifying signs” can help designers grapple with the ecological crisis in the contexts of politics, research, and education
Weisheit von Sirach
No full text"Ben Sira, wisdom of (also called Ecclesiasticus), a work of the Apocrypha, which, though usually known by this name, may have been called by its author, "The Words of Simeon b. Jeshua," the title found on the Hebrew fragments" (Encyc. Judaica, CD-Rom Ed., 1997)Erscheinungsjahr nach Vorlage: 279 [i.e. 1519]Ben Sira folgen noch eine Reihe anderer Abhandlungen cf. Steinschneider p. 203 No. 1363. Die wichtigsten NZ!Siehe auch Karl Heinz Burmeister, Sebastian Münster, in: Basler Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 91, 1963, S. 8
Integrating Speculative and Systemic Approaches into Service Design: To support service innovation that embeds future and systemic issues
Get PDFHumans live in multiple social service systems. These social service systems are composed of multiple levels of services and service systems. Influenced by various systemic factors and system interconnections, designers face more complex systemic challenges and uncertain future challenges when dealing with these service issues. Therefore, to better deal with the systemic and future issues embedded in services, this paper explores the relationships between systemic and speculative approaches and service design; and also discusses how designers need to evolve their design capabilities to better adapt to complex systemic challenges and uncertain future challenges.
This paper proposes the synthesis that systemic and speculative approaches, with their characteristics of systemic thinking, long-term perspective, and critical/reflective thinking, can cut into the service design process and help service designers to deal with more systemic and future-related problems through the application of relevant thinking and methods. Through literature review, the paper clarifies the relationships and possibilities between speculative and systemic approaches and service design, identifying shared concerns, complementary contributions, and gaps that need to be considered. Then proposes an extension of systemic design and the speculative approach to the service design process. Besides, through interviews with five design schools’ service design program leaders and comparing the programs, the paper also proposes five design capabilities that service designers should better evolve further
Cybernetics of practice
Get PDFPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore ways in which cybernetics leads to distinctive ways of acting.
Design/methodology/approach – Paralleling von Foerster's argument that it makes more sense to speak of the cybernetics of epistemology than the epistemology of cybernetics, the author argues that cybernetics is not one form of practice amongst others but an account of what it is to practice, understood as where we relate how we act to how we understand so that each informs the other. The author explores the potential difference that adopting this understanding of practice makes in practice and shows its significance by establishing connections between the eponymous cybernetic example of steering and questions regarding teleology in ethics.
Findings – While all practice is cybernetic in the sense of involving a relationship between understanding and acting, the relationship between cybernetics and practice is not a neutral one. Understanding practice in cybernetic terms enables us to pursue goods internal to practice, which, in turn, makes a difference to how we act.
Practical implications – The author argues that how we understand the relation between our understanding and our acting (our theories of theory and practice) leads to significant differences of action in practice.
Originality/value – The author argues that cybernetics has non-neutral, and ethically significant, consequences in practice that are beyond the application of cybernetics to practice or the advantages of adopting explicitly conversational ways of acting
Autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper speaks at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textIn an appearance at the Michigan State University Main Library, autoworker and acclaimed author Ben Hamper talks about his career at the General Motors Truck and Bus Plant in Flint, Michigan and reads from various works, including his forward to the book "Working words: punching the clock and kicking out the jams" by M. L. Liebler and from his most famous work, "Rivethead", a cynical and humorous view of life in an auto plant. A question and answer session follows. Hamper is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory
No full textIn this chapter, Ben Yong discusses Martin Loughlin’s Public Law and Political Theory. Drawing in part on conversation with the author, Yong explores the significance of a book that, despite interrogating the nature of public law as a discipline in a novel and methodologically important way, is often poorly understood
Idan Ben-Barak: Cook Prize 2024, Silver Medal Acceptance Speech.
No full textAuthor Idan Ben-Barak gives an acceptance speech for We Go Way Back (Roaring Brook Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1010/thumbnail.jp
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