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Myths of Complexity | pre-print version
There is a pre-print version available now of my text Myths of Complexity written for and published in Design Ecologies, Volume 1 Issue 2, November 2011. You can find it here: Claudia Westermann, Myths of Complexity (pre-print version). The manuscript of the presentation … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, complexity, design ecologies, discourse, poetics, poiēsis
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Excerpt from a Letter by Liang Sicheng
In 1931, Liang Sicheng writes to the first class of architecture students to graduate in China: In China today most people in society have no understanding of what architecture is. They either think that architecture is about bricks and mortar and … Continue reading
2013/02/07 :: abstract deadline: Behind the Image and Beyond
In cooperation with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, England, The German University in Cairo, Egypt are hosting the 13th Consciousness Reframed International Research Conference, entitled Behind the Image and Beyond. The conference is part of the Di-Egy Fest 0.1, … Continue reading
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Tagged Cairo, Consciousness Reframed, DI-EGY FEST 0.1, Digital Egypt, Egypt, Planetary Collegium, Roy Ascott
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From the Eastern Journeys series | 03
If we could fly we could design places to meet that are like trees.
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The Logics of Initiation | The Cybernetic Challenge
[preliminary abstract for the Interactive Media Arts Conference IMAC 2012 in Copenhagen / accepted May 29] In the short story “Mimse go the Borogoves” written by Catherine Lucille Moore and Henry Kuttner under the pseudonym of Lewis Padgett, and for … Continue reading
2012/07/01 :: deadline for abstracts :: MutaMorphosis II
Prague in December, don’t miss this conference! Recently the call for abstracts for the MutaMorphosis II | Tribute to Uncertainty conference has been published. I would especially also welcome contributions to the stream of interest that I will be moderating: … Continue reading
2012/04/30 : : deadline 01 : : An Ecology of Ideas Conference
Asilomar, California, July 9 – 13, 2012. Invited and confirmed speakers include: Graham Barnes, Eric Bateson, Nora Bateson, Fritjof Capra, Ximena Dávila, Terry Deacon, Debora Hammond, Klaus Krippendorff, Humberto Maturana, Rex Weyler. Our ideas form, grow, and thrive in relationship. Ideas inspire and transform each other … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society for Cybernetics, An Ecology of Ideas, architecture, art, art and science connection, Bateson Idea Group, conference, conversation, cybernetics, Fritjof Capra, Humberto Maturana, Klaus Krippendorff, Nora Bateson, Radical Constructivism, Ranulph Glanville, Rex Weyler, science, second order cybernetics
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