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2002 Conference

Ecological Understanding II: Design and Conversation

June 13 -16

Baskin Visual Arts Studios and The Music Center
University of California, Santa Cruz

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This archive consists of presentation materials, abstracts, notes, and/or derivatives of those materials submitted by 2002 Conference presenters for inclusion here on the ASC website.

If you made a presentation at the 2002 Conference and your contribution is not represented here, please forward materials to: Randy Whitaker (VP for Electronic Publications)

THEME

Ecological Understanding II: Design and Conversation

Ecology (from Greek, oikos, "house") is the set of relationships among living systems and their environments. Ecology can be viewed as a systemic process that is

successful
self-maintaining
adaptive
evolutionary and revolutionary (via speciation)
autopoietic, self-creating
indifferent to disaster
not attached to outcome
circular

Design can be viewed as an iterative process of making represe ntations of increasing fidelity toward directed, evolving, elusive outcomes. Design is a systemic process that is

(potentially) adaptive
evolutionary and (potentially) revolutionary
(possibly) heading toward disaster
attached to outcome
circular

Conversation is a medium in which representations of design ar ise and evolve. Design occurs in conversation, and is configured and bound by it. Conversation is a systemic process that is

self-maintaining
adaptive
evolutionary and revolutionary (via speciation of concepts)
autopoietic, self-creating
unaware of disaster
circular

ITINERARY

How the conference program was structured...

Plenary Gatherings

June 13-16

Baskin Fine Arts Center and the Music Center

The 2002 ASC Conference was conducted in a casual workshop format with a single program track. This permitted all attendees the opportunity to see and hear everything offered within the conference program. A number of diverse presentations, ranging from papers to performances, were made. The single-venue format afforded us the ability to discuss these presentations as a group.

This collective venue was supplemented with an array of optional informal events both on and away from the UC Santa Cruz campus.

MATERIALS

Our archive of 2002 presentation materials (on separate pages)...

Jim Faris

Remarks to the American Society for Cybernetics Conference

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Frank Galuszka

The Cybernetics of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Cybernetics

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Philip Lewin

Design and the Call for Transcendence

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