Return Visit to SCUT and Invited Lecture

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Following the earlier visit of Prof. Liu and Prof. Deng of the Department of Architecture at the Southern University of Technology in Guangzhou at the SUSTech School of Design, members of the Design Cybernetics Group and the Future Ecologies Group paid a return visit to Prof. Liu and Prof. Deng at the Southern University of Technology in Guangzhou on 23-Oct-2024.

During this trip, we had an opportunity to visit Prof. Liu and Prof. Deng’s Design Future Lab and to take a look at their team’s impressive computational design projects. Thomas Fischer and Christiane M. Herr then had the opportunity to deliver a lecture titled ‘Design Cybernetics: An Introduction’ to an in-person as well as online audience. Here is a recording of the lecture:

In the evening, we enjoyed a delicious dinner together and planned further exchanges between our research groups in the near future!

Thomas Fischer

Thomas Fischer is a Professor at the School of Design at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Kassel and a Ph.D. in Architecture from RMIT. Thomas is a Fellow of the Design Research Society, a Fellow of the Cybernetics Society, and a recipient of the American Society for Cybernetics' Warren McCulloch Award. He previously taught at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and was a visiting academic at National Cheng Kung University and Humboldt University. His research focuses on design computing, design cybernetics, design geometry, and digital media. Together with C.M. Herr, Thomas has edited the book "Design Cybernetics - Navigating the New (Springer, 2018). His design of THE ANALOG THING with anabrid GmbH (Germany) recently won the 2024 IF Design Award (Products, Computer) as well as the 2024 Red Dot Design Award (Product Design).