Cybernetic Imagination Residency Program Launch

The School hosts artists, thinkers, tinkerers, creatives and critical doers to form new and different approaches to looking at systems of technology, humans, and ecologies.

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(L-R) Cybernetic Residents Mark Thomson, Caroline Pegram, Lynette Wallworth, Angie Abdilla and Kate Crawford.
(L-R) Cybernetic Residents Mark Thomson, Caroline Pegram, Lynette Wallworth, Angie Abdilla and Kate Crawford.

Cybernetics allows us to look beneath the surface and beyond the immediate horizon to question how systems interact with and impact upon our world - with people and society, within ecologies and the environment, in the present and the future.#

The School’s mission is to establish Cybernetics as an important tool for navigating major societal transformations, through capability building, policy development and safe, sustainable and responsible approaches to new systems.

Within this frame, the Cybernetic Futures group at the ANU School of Cybernetics inhabits the generative space at the intersection of technology, the arts, theory and practice, to create opportunities in the present that make different futures possible. Through an integrated range of research, education and engagement programs, Cybernetic Futures invites different perspectives to shape and share stories that motivate, inspire and challenge.

Here’s a short photo-essay to experience the Cybernetic Imagination Residency Program Launch event virtually.

Welcome
Cybernetic Futures Lead Andrew Meares welcomed the guests and officially opened the event.
Acknowledgement to Country
Ngunnawal traditional custodian and knowledge holder, Uncle Wally Bell shared a few stories of the land and made a traditional welcome.
Genevieve Bell
ANU School of Cybernetics Director Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell shared her vision of the program and how it is dedicated to scholarship, leadership and creating credible, hopeful and unexpected stories about the future which imagine and instigate positive change.
Audience
Over 95 people joined our launch event.
Audience
The audience included corporate and industry partners, public servants, students and staff from within ANU and beyond.
Dean CECC
ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics Dean Stephen Eggins congratulated the School and acknowledged the important role of this program in creating works and ideas that reinvigorate Cybernetics and deliver a refreshed learning experience.
Residents at launch
(L-R) Cybernetic Residents Lynette Wallworth, Angie Abdilla and Caroline Pegram, ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics Dean Stephen Eggins, Ngunnawal traditional custodian and knowledge holder, Uncle Wally Bell, our Director Genevieve Bell, Cybernetic Residents Kate Crawford and Mark Thomson and Cybernetic Futures Lead Andrew Meares at the official launch of the program on 28 April.

The Cybernetic Imagination Residency program is a continuation of cybernetic traditions, indelibly shaped by the land upon which the School is situated. Canberra – or kambri – is a meeting place, and for tens of thousands of years it has been, as it will continue to be, a site for different people to meet, learn, and build the future informed by Country.

Learn more about the Cybernetic Imagination Residency Program

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