Annetta Pedretti 1954-2018
Annetta Pedretti architect, artivist, archivist, publisher, writer, provocateur, and bee steward. Truly a Jane of many trades, a cybernetician.
Annetta Pedretti entered the world of cybernetic thinking likely long before the term entered her lexicon and thus epistemology. As a student of Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün, Humberto Maturana, and other first generation second-order cyberneticians, Pedretti constructed a variety of cybernetic ideas and concepts such as the I of language and self-reference, and a novel sense of time.
Annetta’s use of cybernetics weaves in, out and around many of her projects and work. From bee stewarding, to publishing cybernetic booklets, to designing and restoring the historic house she bought on Princelet Street in London over 4 decades ago now known as the HOUSE OF ANNETTA.
After her death in 2018, non-profit group progressive architects known as the Assemble acquired the House of Annetta and in her spirit they are designing and creating a community center at the house nested in “cybernetic tendencies for generating social justice.”Although the house is full of traces left of and by Annetta, members of the Assemble collective desires to know more about the person known as Annetta Pedretti. So, please feel free to share a story or two about your memories of this woman.
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