{"id":727,"date":"2015-10-28T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:43","slug":"how-cybernetics-connects-computing-counterculture-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/10\/how-cybernetics-connects-computing-counterculture-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a mouthful, that title, but it&#8217;s an excellent summary: The connections across those domains are so rich and with so many shared influences, it becomes clear that the history of interaction design\u2014and also\u00a0its\u00a0future\u2014is bound up in systems and cybernetics, cultural politics and personalities.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA detailed essay of that title\u00a0has just been published in the catalog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hippie-Modernism-The-Struggle-Utopia\/dp\/1935963090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;HIPPIE MODERNISM: The Struggle for Utopia\u201d<\/a>, coinciding with the opening of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/calendar\/2015\/hippie-modernism-struggle-utopia\">the exhibition<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Walker Art Center. There is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/articles\/cybernetics-and-counterculture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web version<\/a>\u00a0of the essay available, co-authored by Hugh Dubberly and myself.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Cybernetics_and_Counterculture.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF version<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Cyber_Social_Graph.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a diagram<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cybergraph.dubberly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an\u00a0interactive app<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0a social graph of relationships explored in the essay. The diagram and interactive graph was an extension of the essay. One goal of this project was to have the PDF for use with our students and to make it available for other faculty and their\u00a0students. Your feedback is invited in the comment section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/articles\/cybernetics-and-counterculture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the web version<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a mouthful, that title, but it&#8217;s an excellent summary: The connections across those domains are so rich and with so many shared influences, it becomes clear that the history of interaction design\u2014and also\u00a0its\u00a0future\u2014is bound up in systems and cybernetics, cultural politics and personalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[56,62,77,91],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interaction-design","category-pangaro","tag-conversation","tag-design","tag-gordon-pask","tag-interaction-design-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/cyber_social_graph-2015.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKWzH-bJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}