Recordings of most recent events are available on the Cybernetics Society YouTube channel.
The Servants of Nature, and Artificial Interpreters
Modelling multi-disciplinarity for science and how AI will help. Kritz discusses the distinction between systems and organisations, why information (distinguishing Shannon-Weaver and Kolmogorov notions) is essential to thinking about these models clearly, and how the biological characteristics of our brains affect scientific creativity.
Editing the Sun -- How Indoor Light Lost Touch with Evolution
Within a single human lifetime we abandoned the broad-spectrum light that shaped all life on Earth and replaced it with the spectrally impoverished output of fluorescent tubes and white LEDs. We declared the change efficient and moved on. Yet the biosphere evolved under a very different light regime -- one our bodies still expect. What happens when we remove half the spectrum without realising it?
Redesigning Space Governance for the New Space Era: A Cybernetic Approach
This research focuses on governance in the space sector, using a cybernetic approach to identify systemic pathologies, understand development, and provide predictive insights in the context of commercialisation, private-sector participation, and militarisation of space.
Emergent Language and Systemic Understanding: AI-Augmented Deliberations Through a Cybernetic Lens
Exploring the application of generative AI in systems-oriented deliberations, with focus on Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory and language emergence in complex socio-ecological contexts. Drawing from collaborative inquiry into water governance systems.
Badlands Event Three: Eudaimonia
The third installment of the Badlands mini-series exploring technology for malignant purposes and cybernetic responses. Giles Herdale outlined his national review of Violence Against Women and Girls from a System Five perspective. Katie Muldoon explored how humans and systems can cope with complexity while nurturing eudaimonic pathways.
Decoding Reality -- Quantum Information
A world-leading researcher exploring quantum information and its implications for cybernetics, variety, entropy, and our understanding of reality.
EcoCybernetics: Re-rooting Cybernetics in the Living
A provocation proposing that ecocybernetics focuses on cybernetics' ontological rather than historic origins, its full scope of explanatory power, and its potential to resolve important issues facing humanity today.
The Fundamentals of Cognition Based User Interface Design
A pioneering STEM Educator exploring cognition-based interface design, earned her PhD in Cybernetics from Reading University.
Badlands Series #2 -- Privacy
The second installment of the Badlands mini-series, focusing on privacy in the digital age.