#NewMacy Studio in Sympoiesis

Claudia Westermann*, Ioannis Bardakos, Eryk Salvaggio, Jude Lombardi, Laurence Dale (Larry) Richards

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Abstract

Sympoiesis, a term coined by Beth Dempster and further developed by Donna Haraway, works as a conceptual remedy against misappropriations of autopoiesis. Replacing the prefix auto- with syn- emphasizes interdependence. Sympoiesis, one could say, is what the concept of autopoiesis needs to become when the observation moves from the molecular domain to the domain of living beings. Sympoiesis emphasizes the interdependence of living beings and other living beings, environments, things, concepts, and ideas.

As Larry Richards has outlined, the making of something new—the process of poiesis—requires the suspension of synchronicity. In our Studio, asynchronicity will create the necessary condition for engendering the collision of two distinct phenomenal and logical domains—the domain of relations and the domain of dynamics—and affirm sympoiesis as a cybernetic concept. The #NewMacy Studio in Sympoiesis will be an exercise in the suspension of clock time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD12)
Subtitle of host publicationEntangled in Emergence
PublisherSystemic Design Association
Number of pages6
VolumeRSD12
Publication statusPublished - 12 Sept 2023
EventRelating Systems Thinking and Design, 2023, RSD12, Pittsburgh Hub, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: 6 Oct 202320 Oct 2023
https://rsdsymposium.org/

Conference

ConferenceRelating Systems Thinking and Design, 2023, RSD12, Pittsburgh Hub, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abbreviated titleRSD12
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period6/10/2320/10/23
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Keywords

  • second-order cybernetics
  • sympoiesis
  • autoppoiesis
  • anticommunication
  • asynchronicity
  • #NewMacy Studio in Sympoiesis (RSD12)

    Claudia Westermann (Speaker), Ioannis Bardakos (Speaker), Eryk Salvaggio (Speaker), Jude Lombardi (Speaker) & Laurence Dale (Larry) Richards (Speaker)

    6 Oct 2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentation at conference/workshop/seminar

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