Mark Enslin
207 W Indiana Ave
Urbana IL 61801

This is to be a working conference for creating a three-way bridge spanning the thought and practice of:

1. radical constructivism - that the reality we describe and perceive arises from our manner of living as perceivers & describers;

2. social (architectural, artistic) design - deliberate and improvised actions and structures that define and perturb what we call the social (aesthetic), and what we distinguish as their consequences;

3. (second-order) cybernetics - an interdisciplinary weave of intellectual pathways connecting feedback, circular causality, self-organization, self-reference, cybernetics of cybernetics, taking ourselves into account.

• papers
• performances
• displays
• symposia
• workshops

Send proposals to: enslin.mark@gmail.com

• (the old post office building North of Lincoln Square Mall)
• Next door to the Historic Lincoln Hotel
• 15 minute walk from Lincoln Lodge and Travelodge
• 10 minute drive from University of Illinois campus.
• Free evening parking in the deck at Broadway and Main
• Bus Routes: Every one that goes to downtown Urbana
• Niterides (call 384.8188 for more info).

Venue Website: http://www.ucimc.org

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Thursday, March 29

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9:00am Registration

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10:00am Welcome

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10:30 - 12:30pm

Philip Guddemi "Does Power and Privilege Without Responsibility Make You Stupid? A Cybernetic Exploration"

Susan Parenti "Re-designing the US Health Care System: Think Universally, Design Locally"

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12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

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2:00 - 4:00 pm

Albert Mueller, Karl Mueller, Stuart Umpleby, Ranulph Glanville
"An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory"

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4:30 - 5:30pm

Lou Kauffman "EigenForm"

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5:30 - 8:00 pm Dinner

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7:30-8:30pm

Pille Bunnell "Playing with Distinctions: ... regularities and recursions give rise to language, and regularities and recursions arise in language"

This event will include evocation and explanation, as well as playful experience and conversation.

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9:00 -11:00 pm

The Myopia, an epic burleske of tragic proportions

... by David Greenspan, performed by Todd Kimmich

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Friday, March 30

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9am Registration

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10:00 -11:30am

SDAS Room

Michael Glock "Cultural Futuristics: Bringing Consciousness To Culture And Soul To Scenario Planning"

Randall Whitaker "A Report from the Field: Applying Constructivism / 2nd-Order Cybernetics to the Design of Interactive Decision Support Systems"

The Family Room

Phil Lewin "The Cybernetics of Sanity"

Judy Lombardi "Violence is a message"

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11:30 am -12:00 pm

Stuart Umpleby "Unifying Epistemologies by Combining World, Description and Observer"

12:00 pm -12:30 pm

Lowell Christy, Jr., "Cybernetic Understandings to Overcome Terrorism"

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12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

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2:00 - 4:00 pm

SDAS Room

Klaus Krippendorf "Radicalizing Second Order Cybernetics"

Ern Reynolds "The 'Missing' Moderate is the Viable One"

Allenna Leonard "Boundaries and Contexts of Second Order Cybernetics"

The Family Room

Andy Hilgartner "Foundations for a Sustainable Planet"

Michael Lopez "Philosophy in Everyday Life: Radical Constructivism as an Alternative to Objectivity and Subjectivity"

Andy Trull "The Socio-Ecological Approach to a Designing Society"

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4:30-5:30 pm

Larry Richards "Connecting Radical Constructivism to Social Transformation and Design"

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5:30-6:00 pm Awards Ceremony

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Evening: House performance at the home of Dorothy Martirano, 3411 Persimmon Circle, Urbana

6:30 pm: Food and drink
7:30 pm - ????: Performances and Party

• presentation and performance on the SalMar Construction by Greg Danner
• a short play by Susan Parenti, performed by Mark Enslin and Jeff Glassman
• poetry by Michael Holloway
• electroacoustic piece by Ranulph Glanville
• a composition for solo actor by Lisa Fay, performed by Jeff Glassman
• a song by Paul Kotheimer
• ... and a party afterwards ...

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Saturday, March 31

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10:00am-12:30pm

SDAS Room

Ted Kreuger "Prosthetic Perception"

Paul Braffort "Old and New Constructive Analogies"

Ricardo Uribe "Paradoxical Circuit"

The Family Room

Rafter T. Sass ""Liberation Ecology: The Ecological Correlates of Power and Freedom"

Judy Lombardi "Floating Hierarchies"

Suzanne Martin and Robert Martin "Carousel Productions, Inc.: What Can We Learn from a Community-Based Theater about Creating a Learning Organization?"

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12:30-2:00 pm Lunch

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2:00 - 3:00 pm

SDAS Room

Lou Kauffman "Sign and Space"

The Family Room

Barbara Vogl and Rebecca Hibit "Pathogenic Problem Solving: A Workshop to Examine Cybernetic Re-Design Inside the Criminal Justice System"

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3:00 - 5:00 pm American Society for Cybernetics business meeting

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5:00 - 8:00 pm: Dinner

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8:00 pm: Concert at the Independent Media Center:

Pieces for actors, dancers, speakers, musicians, theremin, harp, flute, six-channel playback

... by Arun Chandra, Alexis Larson, Anthony Ptak, Kenneth Gaburo, Kate Arvin, Loren Thor, Charles Joseph Smith, Robert Martin, and Todd Kimmich ...

... performed by Shirley Blankenship, Amanda Pond, Anthony Ptak, Charles Smith and the Ensemble for Experiments in Theater and Music.

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Sunday, April 1

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10:00 am-2:00 pm

Cybernetics Fair - continuations, encores, videos, powerpoints, displays, demonstrations, interviews

Sources of information on the 2007 Conference location:

• Champaign County (IL) Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District

A summary listing of local accommodations is provided by the Champaign County Convention and Visitors Bureau at: