Who are we?

The Cybernetics Society promotes and offers education and research opportunities in the rich field of cybernetics.
 

Our understanding

Cybernetic insights inform design and change practices, ecology, healing, technology and AI, and explain or inform many other phenomena. It is scientifically, and as a practice discipline, related to all fields of design. It offers a distinctive scientific locus deriving from the active (non-deterministic) behaviour of observers as observers responding to and navigating within their own contexts towards their own goals as do others together in ecological interdependence and co-development. This marks out a space of intercontextuality in which perceived situations and consequent actions are woven by organisms, machines, and humans in individual and collective orders. Humans have designed ‘smart machines’ of many kinds for millennia. These machines embed the ideas of their inventors and designers into their operational structures and processes in mimetic semblance of the living.
 

How do we work?

The Cybernetics Society holds scientific meetings, conferences, and engages in other activities to encourage public understanding of science and to extend and disseminate knowledge of cybernetics and its associated disciplines. The Society aims to support the Continuing Professional Development of its members.
 

Our mission

We are very aware of many huge challenges in the world. We believe that humanity needs to address these urgently. Our Society is committed to supporting intelligent interventions.
 

Weblink: https://cybsoc.org/