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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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DESIGN: The BOSTON MANIFESTO 1)2)

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Prof. G. NADLER produced this Manifesto at a Congress in Boston in 1988. The following excerpts are quoted from A. COLLEN and W. GASPARSKI (Eds.) book on "Design and Systems" (1995, p.452-3)

"Planning and designing have the purpose of creating or restructuring a system or a solution for specific situations. Successful planning and designing produces effective and possibly innovative recommendations for systems (products, buildings, information flow, organization, etc.) that are implementable. P&D is defined as the process or approach mode to connote the continuing need and nature of creation or restructuring systems in our world. Plans and design describe the results (recommendations and solutions) of the P&D process".

…The Manifesto proposes the following agenda:

" - To encourage scholarly and practicioner discourse (set up a network)

" - To institute procedures for the further interdisciplinary development of a systematic body of knowledge about planning and design

" - To set up international standards for research in P & D theory and methodology

" - To assist in the dissemination of new knowledge, through publications, workshops, conferences and other such media

" - To promote the study of actual planning and design practices, and to analyse their respective strengths and weaknesses, and to evaluate their effectiveness

" - To support the development of methods and tools for the enhancement of planning and design

" - To encourage the professional schools to emphasize design theories and methods in their curricula

" - To serve as a coordination group for and a stimulus to P & D groups in each of the P&D professional areas (e.g. engineering, architecture)

" - To foster public awareness of the significance and importance of the activities of planning and design and their various approaches

" - To work on the development of a P & D Honor Society" (p.453)

Most of these recommendations are basically instrumental in a practical sense.

For more elaborated concepts on "a system-oriented design culture ", see hereafter

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
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