Dear Andre,
Ethel's comment about Bonsiepe, reminds me of Beer and Espejo's large
policy design project in Chile of which Bonsiepes's work was later a part.
The key design theories and designers of this centralised Chilean
government policy and decision-making system were Stafford Beer and Raul
Espejo from their work on creating organisational design theories. The
design and implementation of their distributed Cybersyn /Synco policy
decision-making system was central to Allende's economic policy. See for
example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn and
http://www.cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/index.html . Cybersyn/Synco was
successful for designing rapid socio-economic change by policies based on up
to the minute (well - up to the day) economic data.
The Guardian has short overview at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2003/sep/08/sciencenews.chile
After the Cybersyn design was functioning and used operationally, it was
later intended to be operated within an ergonomically-designed 'control
room'. It appears Bonsiepe led the team who created designs for the
chairs and interface screens for this. Apparently these designs of
Bonsiepe's team were, however, never completed to the point that they were
fully part of, or supported, the Cybersyn/Synco system (others may have more
information?)
For an brief picture of Stafford Beer's social design work see
http://www.cybsoc.org/contacts/opendrunworld.pdf Some of the underlying
design theory of Beer's social change work is in his presentation at
http://www.nickgreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BeeronPert.pdf
Best wishes,
Terence
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Dear Andre,
I would advise Bonsiepe's texts, specially those on Latin-American design.
His experience as Allende's design advisor shows how design can reach
positively social and technological inequalities.
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