GENS Public Programme on 11.10.2025: Cybernetic Sustainabili­ties – From Past Experiments to Contemporary Reinterpretati­ons

The panel will explore intersections between architecture, machine learning, art, climate data, and sustainability approaches, drawing on both historical and contemporary works. Emphasis will be placed on cybernetics from an historical and analytical perspective, ephemeral algorithmic systems, and their potential interplay with vernacular approaches, framing discussions around collective intelligence and research-practice exchanges as key themes for panelists and moderation.

Speakers:
Orit Halpern (Historian, Cyberneticist, Prof. and Chair of Digital Cultures TU Dresden), Giulia Bini (Curator, Head of Arts at CERN), Chrissie Muhr (Architect, Curator, Artistic Director of Experimental Foundation – Berlin), Ashford Maxwell (Designer, Researcher at ECAL/University of Art and Design -HES-SO), Patrick Keller (Architect, Co-founder of fabric | ch - studio for architecture, interaction & research, Prof. at ECAL/University of Art and Design - HES-SO), Christophe Guignard (Architect, Co-founder of fabric | ch - studio for architecture, interaction & research, Prof. at ECAL/University of Art and Design - HES-SO). 

Moderator: 
Gordan Savicic (Artist, Critical Engineer, Lecturer at HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts).

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