What is it about?
This paper discusses the relevance of second-order cybernetics for a theory of architectural design and related discourse. The relation of architectural design to the concept of 'poiesis' is clarified. Subsequently, selected findings of the cybernetician Gotthard Günther are related to an architectural poetics. The last part of the paper consists of revisiting ideas mentioned previously, however, on the level of a discourse that has incorporated the ideas and offers a poetic way of understanding them.
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Based on second-order cybernetic insights, the paper highlights that aesthetic works cannot be captured in descriptive language. This does not mean that they are not translatable into language at all. They may be captured in poetic language.
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Gotthard Günther's trans-classical logic contributes to a better understanding of second-order - or reflective - thinking and acting at the basis of all art and design
Dr. Claudia Westermann
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: Resonances of the unknown, Kybernetes, August 2011, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/03684921111160412.
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