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On 08/02/2015, at 18:00, Alejandra Poblete wrote: > Dear all, in order to collaborate with the main issue: "the way Viable > Systems Model can be used for the design field as a whole" I am sending a > link where you can view (and also download) a very good document about the > work done by S. Beer in Chile, sponsored by president Salvador Allende in > the period 1971-1973, called CYBERSYN > (Synergy/Cybernetics-Multinode/Metagame). > > Unfortunately this plan was abruptly interrupted due to the militar coup. Dear Alejandra, Thank you for the link. I skimmed the pdf and will read it thoroughly later. I'm sure it is a very valuable piece of information on a project that, alas, was cut short by very dark forces only concerned with immediate self-profit (the destructive power of money never ceases to amaze me). However, the same could be said of a lot of other things. It doesn't change the fact that VSM is simply useless to "the design field as a whole". Cybersyn was surely a milestone, but a milestone for politics, administration science and operations research. Not for design. Unless you equate design to politics, administration science or operations research. Best regards, ================================== Carlos Pires [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------- Design & New Media MFA // Communication Design PhD Student @ FBA-UL Check the project blog: http://thegolemproject.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------