Category Archives: Thoughts

Trojan Horses Published

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Claudia Westermann

Trojan Horses A Rattle Bag from the “Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics—A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation” post-conference workshop. compiled and edited by Ranulph Glanville with Mick Ashby | Thomas Fischer Christiane M Herr | Michael Hohl Aartje Hulstein | Louis H Kauffman Claudia … Continue reading →

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Myths of Complexity | pre-print version

Posted on January 31, 2013 by LITRA ::

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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Excerpt from a Letter by Liang Sicheng

Posted on January 27, 2013 by LITRA ::

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 →

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From the Eastern Journeys series | 03

Posted on January 26, 2013 by LITRA ::

If we could fly we could design places to meet that are like trees.

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From the Eastern Journeys series | 02 (a)

Posted on January 2, 2013 by LITRA ::
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From the Eastern Journeys series | 02 (b)

Posted on January 2, 2013 by LITRA ::
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The Logics of Initiation | The Cybernetic Challenge

Posted on May 29, 2012 by LITRA ::

[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 →

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From the Eastern Journeys series | 01

Posted on March 20, 2012 by LITRA ::
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Escape Routes to the Future

Posted on March 18, 2012 by LITRA ::

  We hope future generations find our humour useful for the models of thought and other escape routes that they shall construct! Arakawa & Gins

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CAiiA Recipient of the 2011 Award for Best Practice in Higher Education

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Claudia Westermann

Happy to announce that the institution at which I conducted my PhD research  -  the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts (CAiiA), hub of the Planetary Collegium  -  is the 2011 recipient of the World Universities Forum Award … Continue reading →

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