Category: Projects
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…
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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 OCAD University in…
VibesYeti: A Subwoofer For Your Heart
Accelerating urbanization and evolving work patterns are contributing to increased family fragmentation and parent-child separation.…
The Contemporary Elementary Non-Trivial Machine
In a world increasingly dominated by technological systems that promise reliability, predictability, and control, there…
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The Design Cybernetics Group is recruiting researchers with strong academic and technical skills for a…
Time Benders: Design for Asynchronicity
Day in, day out, most people work to meet somebody else’s schedules and deadlines, based…
Design of an Analog-Digital Hybrid Controller
This project is motivated by a need to raise awareness of and popularize analog and…
Speculative Remake of the Ashby Box
While working at the Biological Computer Laboratory at the University of Illinois in the 1970s,…
Cross-Morphological Heat Sink Comparisons
This project was motivated by an interest in exploring applications of additive manufacturing beyond functional…