Welcome!
| Administration |
| Constitution |
| Affiliations |
| Nominations |
| History |
| Awards |
| Membership |
| Events |
| THE ASC EXECUTIVE BOARD |
Article 6 of the ASC Constitution provides for a set of officers comprising the ASC Executive Board as follows:
"The Executive Board consists of officers elected from among the Society's voting members. At a minimum, the Board shall consist of the President as chairman, the immediate Past President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer. These mandatory positions are the Executive Board's 'core offices'.The Executive Board may augment its core offices by establishing additional voting officer positions charged with special areas of responsibility. Such 'augmented offices' are subject to the same provisions as core offices with respect to nomination, election, and term of office.
Only those officers provided for by this Article may act as voting members of the Executive Board."
The current ASC Executive Board consists of officers elected in 2008 and 2010.
Your current ASC Executive Board members are listed below.
| THE ASC OMBUDSMAN |
Article 7 of the ASC Constitution provides for one or more Ombudspersons as follows:
"The Ombudsperson shall be an individual recognized for his / her ability to evaluate decisions made by the Society's organs and relate them to membership interests and to the Society's purposes. The Ombudsperson must be a Society member in good standing, but need not be a voting member. The Ombudsperson shall be elected for a three year term, and may continuously serve for so long as he / she is nominated and elected."
Your current Ombudspersons are listed below.
| THE ASC TRUSTEES |
Article 5 of the ASC Constitution provides for a set of Trustees as follows:
"The Trustees organ consists of three to twelve individuals recognized for their ability to support and lend guidance to the Society. Trustees are elected for six year terms by the voting members of the Society, but need not be members of the Society themselves. An individual may continue to serve as Trustee for so long as he / she is nominated and elected. ..."
The current ASC Trustees were elected and took office in 2009 and in 2013.
Your current Trustees are listed on the ASC Trustees Page.
| 'JOB DESCRIPTIONS' FOR ASC OFFICERS |
The ASC Constitution describes the functions and responsibilities of ASC officer positions in very general terms. The specific duties and responsibilities of ASC officers are subject to change and evolution over time.
The ASC Officer Position Descriptions webpage summarizes the duties and responsibilities of certain ASC officer positions as specified at the current time. The positions described are the core officer posts cited in the ASC Constitution.
NOTE: These position descriptions are posted as general background information for the interested reader. Specific duties and responsibilities are subject to changes as determined by the Executive Board.
| YOUR CURRENT ASC OFFICERS |
PRESIDENT
|
Michael Lissack is the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE), the ISCE Professor of Meaning in Organizations, the first Walter J. Hickel Professor at Alaska Pacific University, and a serial entrepreneur. He founded both a non-profit research institute and a charity for artists, launched an international PhD program in corporate anthropology, has written half dozen books, been a successful Wall Street banker, and a candidate for public office. Dr. Lissack has taught at a number of academic institutions in the US and Europe, run nine international conferences on the topics of complexity, management, health care, entanglement and ethics and founded a successful academic journal (E:CO). Worth Magazine recognized Dr. Lissack as one of “Wall Street’s 25 Smartest Players” in 1999 and as one of the 100 Americans who have most influenced “how we think about money” in 2001. His most recent invention – an Internet research reference librarian replacement can be found at http://epi-search.com. His most recent academic work can be found at http://epi-thinking.org. |
VICE
PRESIDENT
|
Tim Jachna is an academic in design, architecture and urbanism, holding degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago (BArch), the Architectural Association in London (AADipl) and RMIT University in Melbourne (PhD). He is currently Professor and Associate Dean (Academic Programmes) at the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he is also Leader of the Master of Design (MDes) in Urban Environments Design, Co-leader of the Urban Environments Research Lab and Leader of the Research Group on Sustainable Urban Design. He has previously practiced as an architect, planner and urban designer in the USA, Greece and Germany, where he was Design Director of an architecture and urban design firm in Berlin during the post-Reunification metamorphosis of the city in the 1990s. In his research, Tim applies cybernetic principles to understand the processes by which the built environment is created, sustained, modified and experienced, and to project possible futures for more participatory, evolutionary, conversation-driven approaches to the design of urban environments, particularly within the rapidly changing context of contemporary urban China. |
SECRETARY
|
Robert J. Martin is a composer, licensed psychologist, and Professor Emeritus at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. He completed a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing an interdisciplinary thesis under Heinz von Foerster and Herbert Brun. He has published two books with Prentice-Hall, the first on teaching, the second on communication skills. For many years he maintained a private practice as psychotherapist, working with children, adults, and families, schools, and prison. A long-term member of the American Society of Cybernetics, he previously served on the ASC Executive Committee for two terms. Since retiring from teaching in 2013, he has turned his attention to composition and recently completed a cycle of string solos, duets, and quartets on the topic of wind energy and wind machines. |
TREASURER
|
I was raised in southern New Jersey and later Annapolis, Maryland, and earned a BA from in Mathematics from Colgate 1981, and a Masters in Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning at the Conway School (Conway, MA) in 1995. I’ve lived in New York’s Hudson Valley since 1996, when I began working at Dutchess Land Conservancy, a private non-profit conservation land trust in Millbrook NY. Most of my work centers on the use Geographic Information Systems (which represents the linking of digital maps with databases). Since 1996 my team of colleagues and I have acquired conservation interests on about 30,000 acres of land (mostly donated conservation easements), and I’ve directly or indirectly written grant applications for more than $25 million to buy the development rights on working farms. I live in the small Town of Red Hook, home of Bard College, and my non-work interests include bicycling and conducting ongoing research in mathematical logic. |
PRESIDENT
for Membership
|
I obtained a degree in Architecture at Kassel University in Germany, then became a research scholar at Deakin University, Australia in the late 1990s. In 2003, I obtained a professional Masters degree at the Department of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong, where I then obtained a PhD in 2008. After that, I taught Architecture in Shenzhen University, China, and since the beginning of 2010, I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. I became interested in cybernetics through my interests in human creativity, technology and education. |
PRESIDENT
for Electronic Publications
|
Thomas Fischer is the Director of the Design Research Institute at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China, where he works as an Associate Professor, teaching Architecture as well as Industrial Design. Thomas is a Fellow of the Design Research Society and received the American Society for Cybernetics' Warren McCulloch Award in 2011. Thomas holds a PhD in Education from the University of Kassel in Germany and one in Architecture and Design from RMIT University in Australia. Thomas previously researched and taught at the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor and as the Discipline Leader of Product and Industrial Design. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the College of Planning and Design at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan from early 2010 to mid-2011. Thomas' research is focused on computer-aided architectural design, on cybernetics as well as on design education in China and in Sino-foreign contexts. |
PRESIDENT
|
Louis Kauffman is a topologist working in knot theory and its relationships with statistical mechanics, quantum theory, algebra, combinatorics and foundations. |
| PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE ASC |
| Administration |
| Constitution |
| Affiliations |
| Nominations |
| History |
| Awards |
| Membership |
| Events |
Welcome!