The Need of Perception for the Perception of Needs

Foerster, Heinz von; Polansky, Larry

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“…Exploring the relations between autonomy, cognition, ethics and aesthetics in the social and material situation of designing architecture, Woods's interpretations go beyond the abstract notion of the observer that characterises von Foerster's work. When an adaptation of von Foerster's 1975 AIA address was published in the journal Leonardo, 13 Woods supplied a commentary on it, 14 to which von Foerster in turn responded. 15 In this exchange, Woods clarifi es the role of the dialogical in von Foerster's argument by situating it in terms of the social relations within which architecture is designed.…”

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From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture

Sweeting

2024

Architectural Design

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A life‐long beacon for Lebbeus Woods was his understanding of the ideas of second‐order cybernetics and attempts to assimilate them into his architectural projects. An introduction to this discourse was provided in Urbana‐Champaign in the early 1960s by his most important intellectual mentor, cyberneticist Heinz von Foerster. Poised at the intersection of architecture and cybernetics, Ben Sweeting charts some of the lines of their interactions and friendship.

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Section: The Relationship Between Lebbeus Woods and Heinz Von Foerste...mentioning

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From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture

Sweeting

2024

Architectural Design

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“…Von Foerster is keenly aware of the paradoxes of the objective, mechanical and deterministic mechanicism of classical physics, and still of much of modern quantum mechanical physics and relativistic theory. Instead, he starts by offering dialogc theories of cognition, language and how reality and meaning are created in society (von Foerster, 1989). Information and meaning at their broadest only arise from those self-organized-or in the words of Maturana and Varela (1986)-'autopoietic systems' we call 'living', systems which have a practical and historical relationship with a domain of living.…”

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From second-order cybernetics to cybersemiotics: A semiotic re-entry into the second-order cybernetics of Heinz von Foerster

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1996

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This article praises the development of second‐order cybernetics by von Foerster, Maturana and Varela as an important step in deepening our understanding of the biopsychological foundation of the dynamics of cognition and communication. Luhmann's development of the theory into the realm of social communication is seen as a necessary and important move. The differentiation between biological, psychological and social‐communicative autopoiesis and the introduction of a technical concept of meaning is central. Furthermore, Varela's development of Spencer Brown's ‘Laws of Form’ from a dual to a triadic categorical basic structure is considered vital. Finally the paper shows that second‐order cybernetics lacks explicit and ontological concepts of emotion, meaning and a concept of signs. C.S. Peirce's theory is introduced for this purpose. It is then shown that both theories are triadic and second order, and therefore can be fruitfully fused to a cybersemiotics.

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“…The other problem with this process is that sometimes this expanding boundary does not include the observer (Midgley, 2000). This is a problem that some systems thinkers, particularly those working within the second-order cybernetics tradition such as Von Foerster (1989), Von Glasersfeld (1996) and Maturana (1988), believe is essential and are particularly keen to emphasise.…”

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“…However, it seems that this proposal has not been developed or further commented on the literature. Yet, there are ideas on second order cybernetics where the concept of socially constructed knowledge in language finds resonances (see, for example, Varela (1979), Maturana (1988), Von Foerster (1989), and Von Glasersfeld (1996). Using Wittgenstein's ideas to inform MS/ST is one of the contributions that this thesis looks to make to the field.…”

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Intention in Intervention: A Philosophical, Theoretical and Empirical Exploration

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<p>This thesis seeks to explore the role of agent or 'user' intention in the fields of Management Science and Systems Thinking. Primarily through the use of various modelling approaches these fields seek to provide assistance to organisational stakeholders who are looking to intervene in situations with a view to dealing with problems and/or bringing about some form of 'improvement'. Although the literature acknowledges that the various methodologies, techniques and tools of MS/ST can be used flexibly depending upon user intention, to date, intention itself has not been the subject of detailed investigation. The thesis seeks to plug this gap in the literature. In exploring intention in some detail the thesis interlinks philosophy, theory and empirical work. The philosophical and theoretical components allow us to conceptualise intention and better understand how it might work in concrete settings. The empirical component, conducted with a team of action researchers, grounds the discussion in practice. The main proposition of the thesis is that intention is a dual-sided phenomenon, i.e. "we do things intentionally, and we intend to do things" (Bratman, 1997). Thus intention has a present and a future side. The research reported on through the thesis shows how, through language and actions, both sides of intention can significantly shape the nature of interventions. This being the case, the value of the work is that it provides new ways of accounting for and learning from interventions; in particular, it provides new frameworks for practitioners to better reflect on and guide their actions.</p>

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The Need of Perception for the Perception of Needs

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture

From Experimental Epistemology to Experimental Architecture

From second-order cybernetics to cybersemiotics: A semiotic re-entry into the second-order cybernetics of Heinz von Foerster

Intention in Intervention: A Philosophical, Theoretical and Empirical Exploration

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