A short paper that emphasizes recursion and learning, second-order cybernetics and ethics, as expressed and embodied by Heinz von Foerster.
Part 1 of a talk from the Design+Cybernetics series in the MIT Department of Architecture, providing the context of MIT's Architecture Machine Group and influences of Gordon Pask.
On the papers, artifacts and memorabilia given to Gordon Pask's archives in Vienna, with some of the context and history that generated them.
Part 2 from Design+Cybernetics / MIT Department of Architecture, describing origins and concepts of cybernetics, and how Gordon Pask enlarged them to encompass conversation. (Related to video above.)
Review of artifacts from Gordon Pask's construction of cybernetic machines and the theory of conversation that emerged from them.
Proposal for a new class of software services modeled on conversation theory and a new economic unit of exchange, the insight. Keynote at coThinkTank 2011, Berlin. Similar to content of video just above, but more informal and including Q&A.
Part 3 from Design+Cybernetics / MIT Department of Architecture, offering a review of real-world projects that apply the cybernetics of conversation to design of software interfaces and organizations, including a connection between cybernetics and "wicked" problems. (Related to the two videos above.)
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Entitled "Language is to Conversation as Air is to Breathing", a performance outlined during earlier presentations in the same forum and then presented improvizationally.
Delivered at Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent) near Paris, this presentation includes definitions of communication vs. conversation and coordination vs. collaboration; frameworks that scaffold our rational and emotional needs; and a layered architecture of interwoven services that support context, coordination, conversation, relevance, and identity.
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