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Claudia Westermann

@litradesign.bsky.social

Architect/artist, PhD. Founder of LITRA. Co-editor of Technoetic Arts. Associate Professor of Creative Practice, Curtin University. PhilPerson. Vice President American Society for Cybernetics. #NewMacy

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last mo.

The ASC 60 special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing is now available online and in select libraries. Includes an editorial introduction to my creative, often collaborative practice, plus images of related works throughout. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/... #cybernetics #creativepractice

Photo of three items side by side: the printed cover of 'Cybernetics & Human Knowing,' Volume 32, No. 3-4, 2025, ASC 60th Anniversary issue, featuring a teal-toned cover image of two ghostly figures; two open pages of the journal's Foreword by Carlos Vidales, introducing guest artist Claudia Westermann; and a black-and-white photograph of a sculptural installation made from wood, wire, and bicycle parts, captioned as 'Symphony of the Everyday – Sunset Sonata' (2024) by Dong, Feng, and Westermann.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last mo.

PhD scholarship: "Tools for Living in More-than-Human Worlds," Ecologies of Imagination Micro Lab, Curtin University. Practice-based research. EoI due 31 July 2026. curtin.edu.au/research/hdr-r-projects/tools-for-living-in-more-than-human-worlds/ #PhD #RTP #scholarship

Promotional graphic for the Ecologies of Imagination Micro Lab. A circular photo of textured, fibrous bark-like material in cream and rust-red tones sits over a grey stone-textured background. Text reads: 'Ecologies of Imagination Micro Lab. PhD scholarship. Tools for Living in More-than-Human Worlds.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come and join this online Speaker Series event by @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social. The registration is free. >>Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation<< with Chris Danta, ANU. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #cybernetics #AI #morethanhuman

Poster for the Speaker Series event of the American Society of Cybernetics on 30 or 31 May 2026, depending on location. Red, white, and rose coloured writing on a solid dark orange background. The text says: Hosted by the American Society for Cybernetics
FREE REGISTRATION
Dear Al Reader
Nonhuman Perspective and
Evolutionary Thinking
in the
Human-Machine Relation
Chris Danta, ANU
Saturday, May 30
10 PM New York
Sunday, May 31
10 AM Perth and China
12 PM Sydney
2 PM Wellington

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to announce the publication of Technoetic Arts 23.2 @technoeticarts.bsky.social ! My editorial "Reflections on scripts and life" is open access: doi.org/10.1386/tear.... Issue overview: ta.pubpub.org/pub/issue-23... #TechnoeticArts #BioArt #AI #CriticalAI #Art 1/5 | @dlila.bsky.social

Cover of Technoetic Arts journal, Volume 23 Number 2, published by Intellect Journals (ISSN 1477-965X). The cover image shows an installation view of 'Revivification' (2025) by Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts, and Matt Gingold, photographed by Rebecca Mansell, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The work fills a darkened gallery space with rows of illuminated golden circular forms mounted on black walls receding into the distance, with a geometric textile or printed element placed on the floor in the foreground.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to report that the submissions period has been extended to 16 March 2026!

Claudia Westermann@litradesign.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Call for Participation for the ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3 to 7, 2026. Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026 More information: events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/ #cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ray Ison has been developing courses for the Open University: profiles.open.ac.uk/ray-ison. See the links in the first paragraph of his bio.

Christian@christian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I don't know online universities specifically. But check out @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social. It's a good way to connect with complexity theory folks. Maybe follow @eryk.bsky.social @antlerboy.com @litradesign.bsky.social @norabateson.bsky.social @cmooreanderson.bsky.social @conways-law.bsky.social

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The latest issue of Constructivist Foundations constructivist.info/21/1 features two articles on Humberto Maturana. One is a previously unpublished conversation with Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi on anthroporobotics. The other, co-authored by Andrey S. Druzhinin & Diego A. Ramírez, is on uncertainty. 1/4

Cover of Constructivist Foundations journal, Volume 21 Number 1, November 2025 (ISSN 1782-348X). The cover features an abstract, textured artwork with layered geometric shapes in vibrant colors including turquoise, red, yellow, green, orange, and white. The composition suggests weathered urban surfaces or collaged architectural fragments, with visible paint textures, linear elements, and a prominent yellow leaf-like shape in the upper left quadrant. The journal title "CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS" appears in bold red and black letters across the top third of the image, with the subtitle "An interdisciplinary journal" and website "www.constructivist.info" beneath. The artwork's fragmented, palimpsest-like quality evokes themes of construction, layering, and emergent pattern—resonating with constructivist epistemology's emphasis on knowledge as actively constructed rather than passively received.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This year's conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), "Conceptualising Environments" (www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/), has concluded. Thanks to AHRA (Nick Beech), the organising team, Christina Malathouni, Yat Shun (Juliana) Kei, and Ranald Lawrence...

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Join us for Ecologies of Knowing: Design Cybernetics Day October 12, 2025, online | Hosted by #NewMacy and @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social at Systemic Design Symposium (RSD14) rsdsymposium.org/ecologies-of... #cybernetics #systemicdesign #conference

ECOLOGIES OF KNOWING

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 12mo ago

An excellent article. It will be included in the next issue. If you are a subscriber to Technoetic Arts, you can read it now.

Technoetic Arts@technoeticarts.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Early access for Technoetic Arts subscribers! New online first article: 📖 Lindsay Polly Crisp on Michael Landy's "Break Down" doi.org/10.1386/tear... #technoetic #art #performance #performanceart

Technoetic Arts @technoeticarts.bsky.social · last yr.

We are happy to report that Technoetic Arts 23.1 is on the way! The special issue collects articles from TTT2023 Malta, the 5th international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science". Edited by Dalila Honorato @dlila.bsky.social. Preview at: ta.pubpub.org/pub/ttt-malt....

Cover of Technoetic Arts 23.1 showing back and front. The front shows an image in red with a drawn fragment of an embryo. The back lists the authors and articles: DALILA HONORATO Editorial: On the Importance of Transgression in Academic Outcomes | HEGE TAPIO How Does One Synthetically Produce Love? | JORDAN KOKOT Overcoming Life: Neuralink, Cyborgs and the (An)Aesthetics of Cure | CLAUDIO DE MELO FILHO Decentralizing Hegemonic Knowledge in Art Practices | LYN HAGAN Containment | GREGORIO TENTI Art and Mutation on a Postnatural Planet | YOSAKU MATSUTANI Art as Decomposition: Soichiro Mihara’s Making Soil | EBRU YETISKIN Political Ecology Imaginaries and Possible Futures in Turkey.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

My weekend reading recommendation. Open access.

Technoetic Arts@technoeticarts.bsky.social · last yr.

Dulmini Perera's text "Orders of change: Mary Catherine Bateson on ecological thinking, narrative practices and attending to worlds in transformation" was recently made open access. Enjoy it at Intellect Discover: doi.org/10.1386/tear... #ecology #Bateson #cybernetics #creativepractice #openaccess

A hand-drawn notebook sketch by Dulmini Perera from 2023 titled "Cybernetics and a Fishtank." The artwork depicts a complex, layered composition centered around an aquarium or fishtank viewed by two figures with glasses. The main aquarium scene shows underwater life with fish and coral, while one observer notes it "reminds me of the sun rising over a reef in the South Pacific."
The drawing incorporates various conceptual elements including references to "Early Years of Cold War," "Perry St. New York," and connects to themes of cybernetics, systems thinking, and ecological observation. Around the central fishtank image are circular diagrams and annotations referencing concepts like "escalating positive feedback," "schismogenesis," and locations including "Iatmul New Guinea." The sketch appears to visualize interconnected systems and cybernetic principles through the metaphor of observing an aquatic ecosystem.
The drawing style is informal and exploratory, typical of academic note-taking and conceptual mapping, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of cybernetic thinking that connects anthropology, ecology, and systems theory.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to report this achievement. 1001 thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!

Technoetic Arts@technoeticarts.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Technoetic Arts is back in Q1 on Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports! Also maintaining Q1 on Scopus. Huge thanks from the Editorial Organism to our authors, reviewers, readers & community who made this possible! 🙏 #TechnoeticArts #Q1Journal #AcademicPublishing

The image shows the 2024 academic journal performance report for the journal Technoetic Arts with two main sections. At the top is a Scopus CiteScore trend chart displaying data from 2020-2024, with blue bars showing CiteScore values rising from approximately 0.3 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2024, and a red line indicating percentile rankings reaching 83% by 2024, marked as "Q1 Visual and Performing Arts." Below this is a Clarivate Journal Citation Reports section showing "Q1" status in purple, with the category listed as "HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY" ranked 82/408. The background shows academic books, suggesting a scholarly research context. Both metrics demonstrate the journal's achievement of Q1 quartile rankings in their respective indexing systems.

Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · last yr.

From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net) Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 11am - 12.20pm Central US Time (i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom All welcome! No background knowledge required."

Georgi Gardiner - Helen

Helen De Cruz is a trailblazer for creative, avant-garde approaches to thinking in community with others. This event celebrates her work. On Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/6185944474 Tues June 24t...

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Experience a small courtyard inhabited by four families in Haiyan village, Kunming, China and the objects and materials that make a village household’s everyday tangible in its aesthetic dimension. @systemic-design.bsky.social rsdsymposium.org/symphony-of-... #publicart #revitalization #design

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

The recording of "Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design: A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds." is on YouTube: youtu.be/yqZEcifvkgg?... @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social with Annan Zuo, Frederick Steier and Claudia Westermann

Pluriversal Ecologies: Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design

YouTube video by American Society for Cybernetics - ASC

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Claudia Westermann@litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds. Sunday, Apr 13, 9:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT FREE REGISTRATION us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Full text: shorturl.at/aECLb #cybernetics #ecology

Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · last yr.

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...

STANDING OVATION!!! | Cecilia Culver, The George Washington University 2025 Commencement Speech

YouTube video by EverydayPal

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

This is in a few hours on Sunday - online - and the registration is free. Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera. Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)@asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · last yr.

ASC Speakers Series: Learning to Learn: More Than a Machine at The Brooklyn Children’s Museum Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation. Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:00 PM EDT Free Registration: lnkd.in/dbSVHQgk More information on the event: asc-cybernetics.org/initiatives/...

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

I am happy to announce that the open access proceedings volume with selected contributions to the 2024 Architecture Across Boundaries conference has been published. Links to each chapter are provided on the book's Contents page: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #systemicdesign #architecture

The image shows a table of contents from a book or journal titled "Systemic Approaches to Architectural Design." It lists multiple chapters with their authors, page numbers, and download options. Each chapter entry includes:

The chapter title (e.g., "Undisciplined: The Afterlife of Speculative Drawings")
Author names
Page ranges (e.g., "Pages 283-291")
"Open Access" label for freely available chapters
"Download chapter PDF" links with download icons

The table includes approximately 10 chapters covering diverse architectural topics such as:

Speculative drawings
Micro-landscapes and materiality
Digital processes in built environments
Porosity in architecture
Case studies of specific architectural projects
Theory appropriation in architecture
Design methodologies
Chinese socialist architectural design strategies

The layout is clean with alternating light background separators between entries, creating a well-organized academic publication index.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera: join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)@asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · last yr.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Limited print edition offer extended to April 23! The ASC60 special issue includes a selected contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics. Head to the journal's website constructivist.info/20/2 at the latest on April 23.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

My Earth Day text. Written in 2021 but more valid today. The manuscript is available for download here: philpapers.org/archive/WESO...

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Circular Currents: Feedback, Intelligence, Emergent Systems Saturday, April 26, 10 AM EDT + Sunday, April 27, 10 AM EDT (ca. 90 minutes per session) FREE REGISTRATION us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #art #artscience #cybernetics

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

Registered users can download up to three articles per day without charge. Everyone can register for free on the journal's website: constructivist.info/subscribe.cgi. With a voluntary subscription before April 23, you will get a print copy of the special issue per post.

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)@asc-cybernetics.bsky.social · last yr.

The ASC60 issue of Constructivist Foundations features four extended contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics – each accompanied by five to seven commentaries and an authors' response. constructivist.info/20/2 #Cybernetics

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

8 AM, Easter Sunday. I was not on an Egg Hunt today, but it seems I found an egg anyway. Someone placed one of my (early) writings within distinguished company. Their text is here: doi.org/10.1080/0803...

An academic reference list page showing bibliographic citations in alphabetical order. The list includes works by notable scholars such as Adorno, Diamond, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Sartre, and Žižek. Among these distinguished references is Westermann, C. (2006). 'Who plays the nightingale?' published in a collection edited by R. Ascott titled 'Engineering nature. Art and consciousness in the post-biological era' (pp. 189-193) by Intellect Ltd. The references span psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and cultural studies from various decades.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.

The editorial to the special issue of Constructivist Foundations with selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics provides an overview of its four thematic conversations. Open access. constructivist.info/20/2/067 #cybernetics #recursivity

Image shows the cover of "Constructivist Foundations" academic journal (ISSN 1782-348X, Volume 20, Number 2, March 2025). The cover features a curved, colorful paper sculpture with orange, yellow and red elements against a dark background. The subtitle reads "An interdisciplinary journal" with website www.constructivist.info. The issue contains "Selected papers from the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics: 'Living Cybernetics Playing Language'" edited by Claudia Westermann. The right side shows the table of contents listing various articles on cybernetics, systems theory, and constructivist approaches.

Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · last yr.