Lab for Cybernetics: Engaging Wicked Challenges
This course is an on-ramp to the Laboratory for Cybernetics (Lab4C), supporting students engaging with wicked challenges based on personal interests and/or current projects for their coursework or thesis.
Adopted from "l'ère atomique, Tome VIII: Cybernétique."
The Laboratory for Cybernetics (Lab4C) supports students engaging with wicked challenges based on personal interests and/or current projects for their coursework or thesis.
Cybernetics uses information and purpose for guiding design and action in complex systems. This course is an on-ramp to Lab4C and offers a cadence of techniques 1) for better understanding complex systems, and 2) for developing effective interventions to improve outcomes in the entanglements of social, technical, and natural systems that make our 21st-century world so uncertain and unpredictable. The course offers powerful tools in an ethical framework for new design interventions.
Additionally, the course connects students to potential collaborators through its global network of in-world practitioners. The resulting conversations are scaffolded so that the focus remains on the student’s domain and concerns, worldview and values. The final course deliverable may be entered into a competition for a $5,000 prize.
This course is open to third- and fourth-year undergraduate students, by permission.