Thomas Fischer

Generative AI as a Tool for Design Ethics Education

In an article published in the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Thomas…
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Grasping Systems: Presentation of an Educational Tangible Systems Modeling Kit at RSD14

How can we make the hard-to-observe dynamics of complex systems tangible, interactive,…
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Tangle Circuits and the Limits of Knowing: A Workshop at RSD14

What happens when design confronts the unknowable? At the RSD14 conference at…
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VibesYeti: A Subwoofer For Your Heart

Accelerating urbanization and evolving work patterns are contributing to increased family fragmentation…
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The Contemporary Elementary Non-Trivial Machine

In a world increasingly dominated by technological systems that promise reliability, predictability,…
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The Appropriation of Autopoiesis in Architecture

The term autopoiesis, a neologism made up of the two ancient Greek…
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Join Our Team

The Design Cybernetics Group is recruiting researchers with strong academic and technical…
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Time Benders: Design for Asynchronicity

Day in, day out, most people work to meet somebody else’s schedules…
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Speculative Remake of the Ashby Box

While working at the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois…
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Return Visit to SCUT and Invited Lecture

Following the earlier visit of Prof. Liu and Prof. Deng of the…
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Cross-Morphological Heat Sink Comparisons

This project was motivated by an interest in exploring applications of additive…
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Analog Computing

Analog computing is a computational paradigm next to digital computing and quantum…
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Design Cybernetics

Design cybernetics offers a way of looking at ourselves – curious, creative,…
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SCUT Team Visits the SUSTech School of Design

After some of us got to know each other at the 60th…
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