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Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New
Design cybernetics offers a way of looking at ourselves – curious, creative, and ethical humans – as self-organising systems that negotiate their own goals in open-ended explorations of the previously unknown. It is a theory of and for epistemic practices (learning, designing, researching) that is deeply committed to the autonomy of others and hence offers no prescriptive methodology. Design cybernetics describes design practice as inextricable from conversation – a way of enquiring, developing shared understanding and reaching the new that harnesses reliable control as well as error and serendipity.
Recognising circular causality, observer-dependency and non-determinability, design cybernetics extends beyond tenets of scientific research into the creative, ethical and aesthetic domain. From this perspective, design is not an ill-conceived subset of scientific research. Instead, scientific research emerges as a particularly restricted subset of the broader human activity of design.
This volume offers a cross-section of design cybernetic theory and practice with contributions ranging across architecture, interior lighting studies, product design, embedded systems, design pedagogy, design theory, social transformation design, research epistemology, art and poetics, as well as theatre and acting. Addressing designers, design educators and researchers interested in a rigorous, practice-based epistemology, it establishes design cybernetics as a foundational perspective of design research.
Recognising circular causality, observer-dependency and non-determinability, design cybernetics extends beyond tenets of scientific research into the creative, ethical and aesthetic domain. From this perspective, design is not an ill-conceived subset of scientific research. Instead, scientific research emerges as a particularly restricted subset of the broader human activity of design.
This volume offers a cross-section of design cybernetic theory and practice with contributions ranging across architecture, interior lighting studies, product design, embedded systems, design pedagogy, design theory, social transformation design, research epistemology, art and poetics, as well as theatre and acting. Addressing designers, design educators and researchers interested in a rigorous, practice-based epistemology, it establishes design cybernetics as a foundational perspective of design research.
- GenresDesign
304 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2019
About the author
Thomas Fischer
131 books4 followersThomas Fischer, Jahrgang 1953, war bis April 2017 Vorsitzender Richter am Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe. Sein jährlicher Kommentar zum Strafgesetzbuch, die Beckʼschen Kurzkommentare, gilt als die Bibel des Strafrechts. Mit seinen Kolumnen für ZEIT-ONLINE und den SPIEGEL wurde er einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit bekannt, zudem ist er Teil des SWR 2-Podcasts “Sprechen wir über Mord?!“.
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Thomas Fischer, born in 1953, was presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe until April 2017. His annual commentary on the German Criminal Law Code, the Beckʼschen Kurzkommentare, is considered the bible of criminal law. His columns for ZEIT-ONLINE and SPIEGEL have made him known to a wider public, and he is also part of the SWR 2 podcast " Sprechen wir über Mord?!".
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Thomas Fischer, born in 1953, was presiding judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe until April 2017. His annual commentary on the German Criminal Law Code, the Beckʼschen Kurzkommentare, is considered the bible of criminal law. His columns for ZEIT-ONLINE and SPIEGEL have made him known to a wider public, and he is also part of the SWR 2 podcast " Sprechen wir über Mord?!".
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