Conversational Confluences at the ASC Conference: Abbie VanMeter talks with 8 participants about their experience and what cybernetics means to them.
American Society for Cybernetics Conference: Podcast live from Ouro Preto, Brazil
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American Society of Cybernetics
The American Society for Cybernetics was founded in 1964. Ever since, it has remained at the forefront of cybernetic thinking and doing. Members understand cybernetics as being profoundly interested in and shaped by circularity, recursion, construction and reflexivity.
RSD15 NEXT WEEK: Conversational Confluences
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]
RSD14-CYBERNETICS: Ecologies of Knowing
OCT 12, 2025 | ONLINE. The cybernetic takeover begins with a speculative address on language-in-action hinged on uncertainty, moves through questions of design ethics and pedagogies, and ends with organisation and modelling of viable systems. In a world where our actions create a ripple effect, we ask: how can systemic design become a living ecology that catalyses conversation?
RSD14: Ecologies of Knowing, American Society for Cybernetics/#NewMacy
OCT 12 2025 | ONLINE. A full day of cybernetics at RSD14. The programme includes a range of cybernetic enactments considering how effects unfold in ever-expanding time and scale through a dynamic interplay of components with wholeness emerging from relationships.
Constructivist Foundations: An interdisciplinary journal
Selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics, “Living Cybernetics Playing Language,” edited by Claudia Westermann.