"The eco-society is decentralized, communitarian, and participatory. Individual responsibility and initiative really exist in it. The eco-society rests on the plurality of ideas about life, life styles and behaviors in life. The consequence…maintenance and evolution of the social system, and the pursuit of a real cooperation with nature all at once. The balanced economy that characterizes eco-society is thus a 'regulated' economy in the cybernetic sense of the term." The first…
Yona Friedman
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Friedman was an architect and theorist of decentralized, participatory systems who developed the concept of "eco-society" as an alternative to centralized planning. The readings invoke his work to ground a cybernetic vision of self-regulating economies and communities that balance individual initiative with collective welfare, positioning him as a precursor to later thinking about distributed governance and feedback-loop-based social design. His emphasis on plurality and local autonomy appears alongside discussions of how cybernetic principles might enable non-hierarchical coordination rather than top-down control.
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