Claudia Westermann

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 ...

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)
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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.

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.

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....

My weekend reading recommendation. Open access.

Happy to report this achievement. 1001 thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!

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...

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."

YouTube video by American Society for Cybernetics - ASC Acting with the World: The Choreography of Agency

The recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPYk...

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.

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

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

YouTube video by EverydayPal STANDING OVATION!!! | Cecilia Culver, The George Washington University 2025 Commencement Speech

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide
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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.

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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

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.

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.

My Earth Day text. Written in 2021 but more valid today. The manuscript is available for download here: philpapers.org/archive/WESO...

Joost Rekveld will talk about his recent artistic projects through the lens of the concepts "lightning empiricism" and "Darwinian machinery," which offers variant perspectives on the heuristic potential of physical devices and how media art can be a collaborative tool with forms of material agency.

Ken Rinaldo will then expand the influence of hybrid ecologies into his artistic practices encompassing human and nonhuman and how these artworks examine the coexistence of artificial and biological systems symbiotically.

Charissa N. Terranova's talk will explore how the terms "feedback" and "feedforward" are interwoven with the logics of circular causality by tracing the evolution from organicism to cybernetics and their impact on 20th century artscience.

Join us for an online event with art historian Charissa N. Terranova, and media artists Ken Rinaldo and Joost Rekveld, presenting their work (Saturday) and expanding conversations into topics of circularity, feedback, hybrid ecologies, and material agency in a panel discussion (Sunday).

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

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.

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.

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...

I just imagined an artist claiming consciousness.

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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

Registered users can download up to three articles per day without charge. Everyone can register for free on the journal's website. You may register here: constructivist.info/subscribe.cgi. With a voluntary subscription before April 22, you will get a print copy of the special issue per post.

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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

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.

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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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...

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
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RSD 14 call for papers poster

Last day to log your Intent-to-submit. Final submissions due by April 30. Need help? Reach out to rsdeditors@rsdsymposium.org. Take 5 minutes now to do this. bit.ly/RSD14-CfP. #systemicdesign #RSD14 | sketchnote Patsy Kambitsch, Playthink