The word “Cybernetics” used by Norbert Wiener came from a Greek word means “governor”. The basis of control is the message and all of information dissemination is to control. In the meantime, any control relies on the feedback of information. In other words, cybernetics studies the flow of information in a system, and the way in which that information is used by the system as a means of controlling itself it does this for animate and inanimate systems indifferently. It is an interdisciplinary subject.
In 1960s, the effect of architecture and computer was reciprocal rather than one industry uses the tool created by another industry. As Gordon Pask puts it in the architectural relevance of cybernetics, both cybernetics and architecture are mutual connections and mutual promotion between thinking and action. Also he proposed: let us apply design paradigm to the interaction between the designer and the system he designs, rather than the interaction between the system and the people who inhabit it, which was intriguing to me. To keep on developing a design result, it requires the intervention of artificial intelligence. Obviously, on the basis of Gordon Pask’s theory, designer could not make the unilateral decision the function of a computer because of the symbiosis between designer and machine. It is like that people and the machine evolve over time.
It is a systematic study of the architecture of the system to solve the problem, using system, method, pattern, interaction, behavior and object to be its language. Cybernetics is different from the mechanism which is to study part of things. It emphasizes integral concept and represented the pattern of object. In our design, we try to study the interaction of between people and the environment, then to study the relationship between human beings. From my perspective, we could incorporate this theory into the design. It contains these two aspects to clarify the inherent and intrinsical of the interaction.