"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
architect · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Yona Friedman was an architect and theorist who envisioned decentralized, participatory social systems organized around ecological principles and individual autonomy. The course readings invoke his concept of "eco-society"—a cybernetically balanced system combining communitarian values with plural lifestyles—to ground discussions of how cybernetic feedback loops might enable distributed decision-making rather than top-down control. His work bridges utopian architectural thinking with systems theory, offering a counterpoint to technocratic visions of AI and automation.
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