Thank you Kristian,
This is a wonderful contribution!
Lubomir
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Subject: Boston, Dec 14: Cybernetics: State of the Art – book launch and conversation with Liss C. Werner, Paul Pangaro, Kristian Kloeckl, Omar Khan
Dear friends and colleagues,
If in Boston this Thursday, Dec 14, come join us at 4pm at Northeastern University for a book launch and conversation about Cybernetics and Design with Paul Pangaro, Omar Khan and Liss C. Werner.
See below and here for more information
https://camd.northeastern.edu/artdesign/events/book-launch-for-cybernetics/
I look forward to seeing you there,
Kristian
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Kristian Kloeckl, PhD
Associate Professor
Program Head MFA Experience Design
Department of Art + Design | School of Architecture | Northeastern University www.informationinaction.com twitter @infoinaction
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The Department of Art + Design and the School of Architecture at Northeastern University cordially invite you to next week’s event:
Cybernetics: State of the Art – book launch and conversation with Liss C. Werner, Paul Pangaro, Kristian Kloeckl, Omar Khan
December 14, 2017
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Northeastern University
CAMD Interdisciplinary Research Lab
171 Holmes Hall | (enter also through Meserve Hall)
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Cybernetics: State of the Art. The event will feature conversations with some of the book’s contributors: Liss C. Werner, Technical University Berlin; Paul Pangaro, College for Creative Studies in Detroit; Kristian Kloeckl, Northeastern University; and Omar Khan, University of Buffalo. Each were participants in the Berlin Conference that is the basis for the book, edited by Liss Werner.
During the last decade, cybernetics awakened from its Snow-White sleep, ready to be understood, embraced, and established as a science for design. The panel of contributors will review and preview the relevance of cybernetics to strategies for designing in our increasingly entangled world. Digital communication, conversational interfaces, “Big Data”, and machine learning are becoming the default state, which we are struggling to apply to our anthropocenic, technospheric world.
From Norbert Wiener’s seminal volume and the trans-disciplinary conversations of the 1940s, to the potent models of and for cybernetics by Ross Ashby, Stafford Beer, Gordon Pask, and Buckminster Fuller – but to mention a few – Cybernetics: State of the Art dives into past, present, and future applications for architecture and design as foundational to all human-machine interfaces. The collection of chapters brings together long-standing cyberneticians, architects, and designers. The book and this event’s conversations offer cybernetics as instrument of a strategy for “the design of design.”
Liss C. Werner is Assistant Professor for computational architecture at TU Berlin, where she leads the intelligent prototype research track in the Chair of Sustainable Urban Design. She held teaching positions at Universities in London, Nottingham and Dessau and lectured at MIT, Texas Tech University, California Institute of Arts, University of Innsbruck and is the editor of ‘[En]Coding Architecture’ (2014), and author of numerous papers including ‘The Origins of Design Cybernetics’. Werner is founder and principal architect of ‘Tactile Architecture – office für systemarchitektur’ and received the 2017 German Enterprise Award for ‘Best for Modern Urban Architecture & Design’.
Paul Pangaro is Associate Professor & Chair of the MFA Interaction Design at CCS. His career spans research, consulting, startups, and education and he has taught systems and cybernetics for design at School for Visual Arts, New York, and at Stanford University in Terry Winograd’s Human-Computer Interface program. Pangaro was hired by Nicholas Negroponte onto the research staff of the MIT Architecture Machine Group, which morphed into the MIT Media Lab. With Gordon Pask as his advisor, he was awarded a Ph.D. in cybernetics from Brunel University in the UK.
Kristian Kloeckl is Associate Professor at Northeastern University in the School of Architecture and the Department of Art + Design where he heads the Experience Design graduate program. Prior to joining Northeastern, Kristian was a faculty member at the University IUAV of Venice and a research scientist leading the Real Time City Group at MIT’s Senseable City Lab as part of which he established the lab’s research unit in Singapore. His work focuses on interaction design and improvisation in the context of today’s cities as physical-digital hybrids.
Omar Khan is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, where his research and scholarship spans the disciplines of architecture, installation/performance art and digital media. Khan’s projects and teaching explore the intersection of architecture and pervasive computing for designing responsive architecture and environments. At Buffalo he co-directs the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies and is an editor of the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series. He is also co-principal with Laura Garófalo of Liminal Projects, an architecture and design office.
For print and open-access digital copies of the book:
- https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/6680
- https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/liss-werner-cybernetics-state-of-the-art/hnum/7966651
'Cybernetics: state of the art', published by Technical University Berlin Press, is the first volume of the book-series 'CON-VERSATIONS, founded by Liss C. Werner and Raoul Bunschoten.
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