The alliance between ecology and cybernetics for a new design science

Abstract

The essay aims to find elements and characteristics of a new design science based on theories, methods and inter and trans-disciplinary research processes, and on holistic and generative approaches that develop in the convergence of natural and artificial sciences. It particularly focuses on ecology, as the science of systemic and generative relations between agents and the environment, and cybernetics, as the science of information and self-regulating systems.

Keywords

• Nature
• Ecology
• Cybernetics
• Computational thinking
• Design science