As part of "Cybernetics for Social Impact" KNoT courses, this workshop will provide students with space and time to think through what it means by self-organisation, interact with other peers to embody the concept, and understand what makes systems resilient. We will discuss the emergence of patterns in natural and social contexts and identify cybernetic elements, such as agents, relationships, and feedback, to analyse self-organised systems. At the end of the session, we will apply the insights into designing resilient and hopeful futures.

No prerequisite is needed to take this course.

Participants will be equipped with a systemic lens to recognise and work with self-organising dynamics in socio-ecological contexts and get inspired to imagine hopeful, emergent futures.

Facilitator

Sungyeon's background is centred around mathematics and computational physics with an emphasis on pattern formation - whether they be structural or behavioural - via self-organisation in complex systems. Curiosity driven, her love of nature has provided lessons, insights and investigations into intricate connections that have inspired her journey to gain a deeper understanding of how we think, how we operate, and how we strive for the greater good together.

She teaches in ANU's School of Cybernetics as well as being a McCusker Institute Affiliate. Her research aims to better understand the resilience of complex adaptive systems in linguistics and artificial intelligence through a topological lens, as well as to push the boundaries of tech-enabled arts.

Group activity of "Designing for hopeful futures" in free formats, e.g., via drawing, storytelling, mapping, flowchart, etc.