Cybernetic Models
Performative Models workshop with Omar
Khan
Cybernetics in the broadest sense is a science that deals with organizations,
information and systems. It explores systems that work on a basis of feedback
loops of information, where action by the system in an environment causes
a change in the environment and/or the system itself.
This workshop focused on the part of Cybernetics that deals with complexity.
Complexity is a product of interaction between elements within the system
when these interactions are nonlinear. This produces a dynamic causal and
conditional system where each component of the system reacts and affects
the other.
Students took a systemic concept of their project and turned it into a
physical model. In a cybernetic model internal rules of the system, rather
than design agendas, were guiding its creation. Properties of materials
used (rubber, plastic, wood, steel, water, ink…) act as embedded rules defining
how the model behaves, creating an analogue computer where processes of
the initial project are coded into the physical structure of the model.
By performing the model, the concepts of the original system were tested.
Through observation, modification and classification of the produced states
of the model, students were able to make refinement to their system and
improve their project.
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