DESIGNING FREEDOM / STAFFORD BEER

A VSM model by Stanford Beer, consist of the recursive framework of other VSMs where the variety ( possible states of a system )  between management, process and environment gets amplified and filtered. This amplification and filtration of variety occurs based on the feedback system, that  modifies the input based on the output in order to get closer to the desired output.

Q) Who regulates the variables for this amplification and filtration? When compared to the functioning of brain being the controller for the nervous system, does it mean there is a separate control system external to the VSM?

Q) Is it highly ambitious to visualize economies that work like real time control systems with significant and immediate data fed into simulations for better decision making? What could be some practical approaches to using a viable system model in this context?

ARCHITECTURE RELEVANCE / GORDON PASK

As speculated, with inclusion of cybernetic theory, “ Concepts in very different disciplines ( notably social, anthropology, psychology, sociology, ecology and economies ) will be unified with the concepts of architecture to yield an adequately broad view of such entities as civilization, city or educational system.”

Also, Cybernetic model of designing a reactive and adaptive environment suggests designing a system involving programmable interactions between and static and dynamic entities.

Q) How will this shift affect the role of architects, their skill sets and processes. How would a collaborative model between architects, programmers, interaction designers and others function?  What would the interface look like? And in case of a breakdown, who would be responsible?