The Design Cybernetics Group at the SUSTech School of Design applies cybernetics to design and vice versa. Its members perform and investigate deliberate alternations between being in control and being out of control in the creative process. With a strong technological and computational yet qualitative focus, the group’s cross-disciplinary research extends across empirical design research, human-computer interaction, analog and analog/digital hybrid computing, dynamic systems modeling, computational geometry, computational optimization, toolmaking for design, and speculative product development. Relying heavily on Shenzhen’s digital design and manufacturing ecosystem, the group’s projects engage industry locally and internationally.

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  Time Benders: Design for Asynchronicity
  Day in, day out, most people work to meet somebody else’s schedules and deadlines, based on precise and objective synchronization… Read more: Time Benders: Design for Asynchronicity
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  Design of an Analog-Digital Hybrid Controller
  This project is motivated by a need to raise awareness of and popularize analog and analog-digital hybrid computing. Analog computing… Read more: Design of an Analog-Digital Hybrid Controller
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  Speculative Remake of the Ashby Box
  While working at the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois in the 1970s, the British cybernetician W. Ross… Read more: Speculative Remake of the Ashby Box
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  Return Visit to SCUT and Invited Lecture
  Following the earlier visit of Prof. Liu and Prof. Deng of the Department of Architecture at the Southern University of… Read more: Return Visit to SCUT and Invited Lecture
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  Cross-Morphological Heat Sink Comparisons
  This project was motivated by an interest in exploring applications of additive manufacturing beyond functional (testing, demonstrating utility), expressive (articulating… Read more: Cross-Morphological Heat Sink Comparisons
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  Analog Computing
  Analog computing is a computational paradigm next to digital computing and quantum computing. It is particularly suitable for creating and… Read more: Analog Computing