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Claudia Westermann
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Architect/artist, PhD. Founder of LITRA. Co-editor of Technoetic Arts. Associate Professor of Creative Practice, Curtin University. PhilPerson. Vice President American Society for Cybernetics. #NewMacy
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This year's conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), "Conceptualising Environments" (www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/), has concluded. Thanks to AHRA (Nick Beech), the organising team, Christina Malathouni, Yat Shun (Juliana) Kei, and Ranald Lawrence...
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Join us for Ecologies of Knowing: Design Cybernetics Day

October 12, 2025, online |
Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14)
rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of...
#cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference
ECOLOGIES OF KNOWING
RSD is a systemic design resource that is continuously updated with the proceedings of the annual symposium and other Systemic Design Association (SDA) events. It serves as a searchable repository of ...
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August 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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An excellent article. It will be included in the next issue. If you are a subscriber to Technoetic Arts, you can read it now.
August 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Claudia Westermann
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We are happy to report that Technoetic Arts 23.1 is on the way!
The special issue collects articles from TTT2023 Malta, the 5th international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science". Edited by Dalila Honorato @dlila.bsky.social. Preview at: ta.pubpub.org/pub/ttt-malt....
Cover of Technoetic Arts 23.1 showing back and front. The front shows an image in red with a drawn fragment of an embryo. The back lists the authors and articles: DALILA HONORATO Editorial: On the Importance of Transgression in Academic Outcomes | HEGE TAPIO How Does One Synthetically Produce Love? | JORDAN KOKOT Overcoming Life: Neuralink, Cyborgs and the (An)Aesthetics of Cure | CLAUDIO DE MELO FILHO Decentralizing Hegemonic Knowledge in Art Practices | LYN HAGAN Containment | GREGORIO TENTI Art and Mutation on a Postnatural Planet | YOSAKU MATSUTANI Art as Decomposition: Soichiro Mihara’s Making Soil | EBRU YETISKIN Political Ecology Imaginaries and Possible Futures in Turkey.
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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My weekend reading recommendation. Open access.
technoeticarts.bsky.social Technoetic Arts @technoeticarts.bsky.social · Jun 21
Dulmini Perera's text "Orders of change: Mary Catherine Bateson on ecological thinking, narrative practices and attending to worlds in transformation" was recently made open access. Enjoy it at Intellect Discover: doi.org/10.1386/tear...

#ecology #Bateson #cybernetics #creativepractice #openaccess
A hand-drawn notebook sketch by Dulmini Perera from 2023 titled "Cybernetics and a Fishtank." The artwork depicts a complex, layered composition centered around an aquarium or fishtank viewed by two figures with glasses. The main aquarium scene shows underwater life with fish and coral, while one observer notes it "reminds me of the sun rising over a reef in the South Pacific." The drawing incorporates various conceptual elements including references to "Early Years of Cold War," "Perry St. New York," and connects to themes of cybernetics, systems thinking, and ecological observation. Around the central fishtank image are circular diagrams and annotations referencing concepts like "escalating positive feedback," "schismogenesis," and locations including "Iatmul New Guinea." The sketch appears to visualize interconnected systems and cybernetic principles through the metaphor of observing an aquatic ecosystem. The drawing style is informal and exploratory, typical of academic note-taking and conceptual mapping, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of cybernetic thinking that connects anthropology, ecology, and systems theory.
June 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Happy to report this achievement. 1001 thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!
technoeticarts.bsky.social Technoetic Arts @technoeticarts.bsky.social · Jun 19
🎉 Technoetic Arts is back in Q1 on Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports! Also maintaining Q1 on Scopus.
Huge thanks from the Editorial Organism to our authors, reviewers, readers & community who made this possible! 🙏
#TechnoeticArts #Q1Journal #AcademicPublishing
The image shows the 2024 academic journal performance report for the journal Technoetic Arts with two main sections. At the top is a Scopus CiteScore trend chart displaying data from 2020-2024, with blue bars showing CiteScore values rising from approximately 0.3 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2024, and a red line indicating percentile rankings reaching 83% by 2024, marked as "Q1 Visual and Performing Arts." Below this is a Clarivate Journal Citation Reports section showing "Q1" status in purple, with the category listed as "HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY" ranked 82/408. The background shows academic books, suggesting a scholarly research context. Both metrics demonstrate the journal's achievement of Q1 quartile rankings in their respective indexing systems.
June 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
11am - 12.20pm Central US Time
(i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom

All welcome! No background knowledge required."
Georgi Gardiner - Helen
Helen De Cruz is a trailblazer for creative, avant-garde approaches to thinking in community with others. This event celebrates her work. On Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/6185944474 Tues June 24t...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Experience a small courtyard inhabited by four families in Haiyan village, Kunming, China and the objects and materials that make a village household’s everyday tangible in its aesthetic dimension. @systemic-design.bsky.social
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#publicart #revitalization #design
Promotional image for 'Symphony of the Everyday—Sunset Sonata,' an interactive public art installation presented at RSD13 (Relating Systems Thinking and Design conference) in 2024. The image shows a silhouetted figure in profile against a golden sunset sky, appearing to be in a contemplative pose within what looks like a curved architectural space or tunnel. The RSD13 logo appears in the upper left corner featuring a colorful, organic tree-like design. The installation title is displayed in bold white text at the bottom of the image.
June 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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The recording of "Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design: A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds." is on YouTube: youtu.be/yqZEcifvkgg?... @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social with Annan Zuo, Frederick Steier and Claudia Westermann
May 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Reposted by Claudia Westermann
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WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...
STANDING OVATION!!! | Cecilia Culver, The George Washington University 2025 Commencement Speech
YouTube video by EverydayPal
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May 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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This is in a few hours on Sunday - online - and the registration is free. Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera. Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.
asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · May 6
ASC Speakers Series:

Learning to Learn: More Than a Machine at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation.

Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:00 PM EDT
Free Registration: lnkd.in/dbSVHQgk
More information on the event: asc-cybernetics.org/initiatives/...
May 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I am happy to announce that the open access proceedings volume with selected contributions to the 2024 Architecture Across Boundaries conference has been published.

Links to each chapter are provided on the book's Contents page: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#systemicdesign #architecture
The image shows a table of contents from a book or journal titled "Systemic Approaches to Architectural Design." It lists multiple chapters with their authors, page numbers, and download options. Each chapter entry includes: The chapter title (e.g., "Undisciplined: The Afterlife of Speculative Drawings") Author names Page ranges (e.g., "Pages 283-291") "Open Access" label for freely available chapters "Download chapter PDF" links with download icons The table includes approximately 10 chapters covering diverse architectural topics such as: Speculative drawings Micro-landscapes and materiality Digital processes in built environments Porosity in architecture Case studies of specific architectural projects Theory appropriation in architecture Design methodologies Chinese socialist architectural design strategies The layout is clean with alternating light background separators between entries, creating a well-organized academic publication index.
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera: join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.
asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · May 6
ASC Speakers Series:

Learning to Learn: More Than a Machine at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation.

Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:00 PM EDT
Free Registration: lnkd.in/dbSVHQgk
More information on the event: asc-cybernetics.org/initiatives/...
May 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Limited print edition offer extended to April 23! The ASC60 special issue includes a selected contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics. Head to the journal's website constructivist.info/20/2 at the latest on April 23.
April 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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My Earth Day text. Written in 2021 but more valid today. The manuscript is available for download here: philpapers.org/archive/WESO...
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Circular Currents: Feedback, Intelligence, Emergent Systems

Saturday, April 26, 10 AM EDT + Sunday, April 27, 10 AM EDT
(ca. 90 minutes per session)

FREE REGISTRATION
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#art #artscience #cybernetics
April 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Registered users can download up to three articles per day without charge. Everyone can register for free on the journal's website: constructivist.info/subscribe.cgi. With a voluntary subscription before April 23, you will get a print copy of the special issue per post.
asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · Apr 15
The ASC60 issue of Constructivist Foundations features four extended contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics – each accompanied by five to seven commentaries and an authors' response. constructivist.info/20/2 #Cybernetics
April 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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8 AM, Easter Sunday. I was not on an Egg Hunt today, but it seems I found an egg anyway. Someone placed one of my (early) writings within distinguished company.

Their text is here: doi.org/10.1080/0803...
An academic reference list page showing bibliographic citations in alphabetical order. The list includes works by notable scholars such as Adorno, Diamond, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Žižek. Among these distinguished references is Westermann, C. (2006). 'Who plays the nightingale?' published in a collection edited by R. Ascott titled 'Engineering nature. Art and consciousness in the post-biological era' (pp. 189-193) by Intellect Ltd. The references span psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and cultural studies from various decades.
April 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The editorial to the special issue of Constructivist Foundations with selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics provides an overview of its four thematic conversations. Open access. constructivist.info/20/2/067 #cybernetics #recursivity
Image shows the cover of "Constructivist Foundations" academic journal (ISSN 1782-348X, Volume 20, Number 2, March 2025). The cover features a curved, colorful paper sculpture with orange, yellow and red elements against a dark background. The subtitle reads "An interdisciplinary journal" with website www.constructivist.info. The issue contains "Selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics: 'Living Cybernetics Playing Language'" edited by Claudia Westermann. The right side shows the table of contents listing various articles on cybernetics, systems theory, and constructivist approaches.
April 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The ASC60 issue of Constructivist Foundations features four extended contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics – each accompanied by five to seven commentaries and an authors' response.
constructivist.info/20/2 #Cybernetics @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social
Cover of Constructivist Foundations journal, Volume 20, Number 2, March 2025. The design features abstract curved shapes in colors of orange, teal, red, cream, and navy blue, creating a spiral-like pattern. The cover reads "Selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics 'Living Cybernetics Playing Language'" and "Edited by Claudia Westermann." The journal logo appears at the top with "CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS" and subtitle "An interdisciplinary journal" along with the website www.constructivist.info.
April 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design
A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds.

Sunday, Apr 13, 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT

FREE REGISTRATION
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Full text: shorturl.at/aECLb
#cybernetics #ecology
The image is an announcement poster for an online speakers series hosted by the American Society for Cybernetics. It features a detailed architectural cross-section illustration that shows a building with a bonsai-like tree centerpiece, a bathtub on the left side, and what appears to be a deer or similar animal on the right side. The background shows structural elements of a house or building with a pitched roof. The text on the poster states: "SUNDAY, APRIL 13 ONLINE Pluriversal Ecologies: Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design" At the bottom of the poster is the logo for the "American Society for Cybernetics" alongside the words "SPEAKERS SERIES" in large type. The overall aesthetic combines architectural drawing with natural elements, reflecting the theme of more-than-human design and ecological perspectives mentioned in the title.
April 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Open access. I am happy to share a new publication whose first author is my former PhD student, Fatemeh Taherysayah. The article presents a new architectural design methodology that aims for a better integration of user experience. With Hai-Ning Liang. #neuroarchitecture
doi.org/10.1080/1750...
Learning from neuroscience: integrating users in design processes using brain imaging tools and virtual reality
Historically, the close-knit relationship between design and construction ensured that built architecture harmonised with its local context and users, as it originated from the shared experiences o...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Last day to log your Intent-to-submit. Final submissions due by April 30. Need help? Reach out to [email protected]. Take 5 minutes now to do this. bit.ly/RSD14-CfP. #systemicdesign #RSD14 | sketchnote Patsy Kambitsch, Playthink
RSD 14 call for papers poster
March 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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The deadline for POM2025 has been extended. Abstract are now due on March 29.
litradesign.bsky.social Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · Feb 22
Join us for Synthetic Sentience in Perth, Australia, 16-18 July 2025 – the 5th Politics of the Machines conference. The abstracts for all seven tracks are due on March 15.
www.pomconference.org/pom-perth-20...

#artscience #art #systemicdesign #indigenouslogics #quantumphysics #cybernetics
POM2025 cover image - in the background some bluish/greenish stuff with some orange highlights that looks like a reinvention of Solaris' ultimate wisdom. The white text on top says: POM - politics of the machines - perth 2025 - synthetic sentience.
March 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM