At the School of Cybernetics, we have a strong drive to develop research and education through collaboration. We believe ideas should flow easily into and out from the School. This is the path to meaningful innovation.
Our partnership projects bring cybernetics to a range of sectors, organisations and people who are also trying to think differently about how to bring emerging technologies safely and responsibly into the world. These partnerships cross many themes, issues, and disciplines. Our diverse collection of projects represent the broad application of cybernetics to challenges and opportunities in many sectors.
Explore what we are up to! If you want to reach out and discuss, get in touch at: cybernetics@anu.edu.au.
Address to the Nations
By ‘briggsnpledger’ 2025 Cybernetic Imagination Residents
Indigenous Futurisms
Dr Ambelin Kwaymullina - Cybernetic Imagination Resident
Complexity Leadership Lab
Fostering leadership to navigate 21st-century complexity
Start-Up Nation
Nineteenth-century telegraphy as a Cybernetic System
Future Fables
Future Fables: literature, evolution, and artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence for People
An Australian-French Perspective
Metaverse as a Cybernetic System
Cybernetic approaches to better inform design
Understanding AS ISO/IEC 42001:2023
Online training for Australia’s world first AI standard
Cybernetic Water Stories
Reimagining our relationships with water.
Designing for Change
Data and disadvantage project
Institute for Water Futures
Developing cybernetic approaches to effective water systems governance
Cybernetics of Rapport and Attentiveness
Exploring the multiple temporalities
Calculating Empires
A Geneology of Technology and Power Since 1500
Arts and Agents
Imagine our future relationships through art and technology intersections
The Library of the Future
A collaboration with the National Library of Australia
Thinking Beyond AI
An executive skills program in collaboration with Microsoft
Algorithmic Futures Policy Lab
Designing technology and policy for an uncertain future
Understanding complexity and transdisciplinary praxis
Strategies for bringing together knowledge, resolving problems, and identifying insights across different scales and levels
Cybernetic Leadership
Exploring skills for leading change in a disrupted, tech-enabled world
Un-tour: The Hidden Gallery
A collaboration with the ANU School of Cybernetics, National Gallery of Australia and Boho Interactive