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…
Educational tangible systems modeling kit inspired by the Differential Analyzer

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…
The TANG[IB]LE INTERACTION KIT

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…