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Reimagining the Differential Analyzer: Presentation at TEI ‘26 in Chicago
Can a mechanical computing device from the 1930s become a hands-on resource for systems thinking…
Generative AI as a Tool for Design Ethics Education
In an article published in the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Thomas Fischer describes an…
Presentation of Analog-Digital Hybrid Parametric Design Modeling at eCAADe 2025
On September 4th, 2025, Xue Chao and Bao Boyu, Master’s students in the Design Cybernetics…
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, and appreciable? This…
Tangle Circuits and the Limits of Knowing: A Workshop at RSD14
What happens when design confronts the unknowable? At the RSD14 conference at OCAD University in…
The Contemporary Elementary Non-Trivial Machine
In a world increasingly dominated by technological systems that promise reliability, predictability, and control, there…
The Appropriation of Autopoiesis in Architecture
The term autopoiesis, a neologism made up of the two ancient Greek words autos (self)…
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The Design Cybernetics Group is recruiting researchers with strong academic and technical skills for a…
Design of an Analog-Digital Hybrid Controller
This project is motivated by a need to raise awareness of and popularize analog and…