The American Society for Cybernetics continues the annual conference—held early August in Ouro Preto, Brazil—online from August 24 to 27. Eight sessions in all. The link takes you directly to the ASC hub. See you online!
MONDAY, AUGUST 24 | ONLINE. Following on from RSD15: São Paulo, the group discusses how Stafford Beer’s vision of freedom, viability, and autonomy continues to resonate within Latin American experiences of social, ecological, and institutional transformation.
We are a bit RSD15 obsessed with the launch of programming starting this Wednesday. There are several event hubs—you can register for all of them at once or the ones you are interested in via Eventbrite (linked). Get rush seats for online sessions by joining hubs directly RSDX.online/join. As always PWYC/no fee community-led sessions.
THIS WED | AUG 19 | ONLINE. The RSD15 workshops series launches with the Symbiotic Design Framework, facilitated by Gonzalo Raineri. Explore the framework as a way to support a shift from extractive practices toward mutualistic configurations. REGISTER NOW (no fee to attend).
JOIN NOW. The programme for the RSD15–ESPM hub (on campus and livestream) is finalised. Sessions are an opportunity for conversations about interconnected conditions and work grounded in the particular contexts of Brazil and Latin America. [RSD15.INFO]
AUG 24–27. ONLINE. This programme brings the ASC 2026 conference, with its overarching theme of Conversational Confluences, into the context of RSD15’s Designing within a Plural World. The two meet on shared ground as both view diversity as a source of collective learning and creativity. [RSD15.INFO]
MARCH 27 | ONLINE | Forging Fridays workshop. Exploring the practice of creating a simple experimental prototype, we will spark imagination around strengthening trust in emergence through presence in relationships and trust in your own capacity within “unknown unknowns.”
MARCH 25 | ONLINE [precedes Sir John Kay] Explore, from the origins to the present day, how we’ve arrived at the unpredictable and fast-moving theoretical, technical, and business advances that will inevitably impact the future of our society.
MARCH 25 | ONLINE [follows The Split]. Around 1970 managerial professionalism went into reverse, leading to the decline of many successful twentieth century corporations, a loss of legitimacy by large business, and contributed to an erosion of professional standards in business adjacent professions, especially banking, accountancy and law.