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• 2015

  The implicit ethics of designing

  Sweeting, B., 1 Sep 2015, Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD4) 2015 Symposium. Ryan, A. & Jones, P. (eds.). Systemic Design Research Network, p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Designer
  • Ethical Theory
  • Normative Ethics
  • Deontology
  • Applied Ethics
• 2017

  Open peer commentary: A theatre for exploring the cybernetic

  Sweeting, B., 1 Nov 2017, New horizons for second-order cybernetics. Riegler, A., Müller, K. H. & Umpleby, S. A. (eds.). Singapore: World Scientific, p. 307-309 3 p. (Series on knots and everything).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter

  • cybernetics
  • theater
  • worldview
• 2020

  Place as a reflexive conversation with the situation

  Sweeting, B., 27 Nov 2020, Expanding fields of architectural discourse and practice: Curated works from the P.E.A.R. journal. Butcher, M. & O’Shea, M. (eds.). London: UCL Press, p. 33-50

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter

  Open Access
• 2015

  Architecture and second order science

  Sweeting, B., 1 Jan 2015, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. Vol. 1. p. 1-6 6 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Scientific Method
  • Cedric Price
  • Practice as Research
  • 1970s
  • Cybernetics
• 2012

  Design as its own paradigm

  Sweeting, B., 2012, PhD Research Projects 2012. de Bruijn, W. (ed.). Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN

  • Paradigm
• 2017

  Author's response: Beyond application

  Sweeting, B., 1 Nov 2017, New horizons for second-order cybernetics. Riegler, A., Müller, K. H. & Umpleby, S. A. (eds.). Singapore: World Scientific, p. 258-269 12 p. (Series on knots and everything).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter

  • Cybernetics
  • Radical Constructivism
  • Griffiths
  • Field Research
  • Cognition
• 2014

  Not all conversations are conversational: a reflection on the constructivist aspects of design studio education

  Sweeting, B., 15 Jul 2014, In: Constructivist Foundations. 9, 3, p. 405-406 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Design Studio
  • Constructivist
  • Education
  • Chinese Learners
  • Open Peer Commentaries
• 2019

  The Generator project as a paradigm for systemic design

  Sweeting, B., 2019, Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD8) 2019 Symposium. Jones, P. (ed.). Systemic Design Association, (Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Paradigm
  • Adaptability
  • Cedric Price
  • Consultants
  • Retreat
• 2017

  Editorial: Action and Reflection - The Individual and the Collective

  Baron, P. (ed.), Griffiths, D. (ed.) & Sweeting, B. (ed.), 14 Dec 2017, In: Kybernetes. 46, 9, p. 1486-1610 125 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

  Open Access

  File

  • Cybernetics
  • Proceedings
• 2020

  Relating systems thinking and design (VII): Advancing design methodologies for social and environmental systems

  Davidova, M., Sweeting, B. & Sevaldson, B., 17 Dec 2020, In: FORMakademisk. 13, 4, p. 1-3 3 p., 4016.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  File

  • Systems Thinking
  • social system
  • Social Systems
  • Methodology
  • Turin
• 2019

  Why design cybernetics?

  Sweeting, B., 31 Jul 2019, Design cybernetics: Navigating the new. Fischer, T. & Herr, C. M. (eds.). Cham: Springer International, p. 185-194 (Design Research Foundations).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Intimate Relationships
• 2016

  The ethics of ethics and the ethics of architecture

  Sweeting, B., 1 Jan 2016, Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD5) 2016 Symposium. Jones, P. (ed.). Systemic Design Research Network, p. 1-6 6 p. (Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Ethical Theory
  • Discourse
  • Designer
  • Criticism
• 2019

  Guest editorial: Resilience and ethics in social systems

  Baron, P., Fantini van Ditmar, D., Griffiths, D. & Sweeting, B., 1 Apr 2019, In: Kybernetes. 48, 4, p. 666-671 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

  Open Access

  File

  • Social Systems
  • Resilience
  • Cybernetics
  • Ethics
• 2014

  Architecture and Undecidability: Explorations in there being no right answer—Some intersections between epistemology, ethics and designing architecture, understood in terms of second-order cybernetics and radical constructivism

  Sweeting, B., 2014

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

  Open Access

  • Radical Constructivism
  • Undecidability
  • Cybernetics
  • Being-there
  • Epistemology
• 2018

  Wicked problems in design and ethics

  Sweeting, B., 2018, Systemic design: theory, methods, and practice. Jones, P. & Kijima, K. (eds.). Tokyo, Japan: Springer, p. 119-143 (Translational Systems Sciences; vol. 8).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

  • Ethical Theory
  • Discourse
  • Guidance
  • Designer
• 2014

  There is no alibi in designing: Responsibility and dialogue in the design process

  Kenniff, T-B. & Sweeting, B., 6 Jan 2014, In: Opticon1826. 16, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Responsibility
  • Dialogism
  • Intrinsic
  • Aesthetics
• 2016

  Conversation, design and ethics: the cybernetics of Ranulph Glanville

  Sweeting, B., 1 Jun 2016, Ranulph Glanville and how to live the cybernetics of unknowing. Brier, S., Guddemi, P. & Kauffman, L. H. (eds.). Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, p. 99-105 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter

  • Cybernetics
  • Epistemological
• 2018

  Radical constructivism and the decolonisation of epistemology

  Sweeting, B., 15 Jul 2018, In: Constructivist Foundations. 13, 3, p. 326-327

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

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  • decolonization
  • constructivism
  • epistemology
  • conversational teaching
  • curriculum

• Radically constructing 'place'

  Sweeting, B., Oct 2018, Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) 2018 Symposium. Barbero, S. (ed.). Turin, Italy: Systemic Design Association, p. 563-570 (Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • cybernetics
  • gentrification
  • phenomenology
  • disaster
  • globalization
• 2020

  Guest editorial: Cybernetic frameworks for a shared world

  Chapman, J., Herr, C. M. & Sweeting, B., 3 Aug 2020, In: Kybernetes.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

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  • world
• 2016

  Design research as a variety of second-order cybernetic practice

  Sweeting, B., 14 Jul 2016, In: Constructivist Foundations. 11, 3, p. 572-579 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Paul Feyerabend
  • Constructivism
  • Constructivist
  • Overlap
• 2015

  Conversation, Design and Ethics: The Cybernetics of Ranulph Glanville

  Sweeting, B., 1 Jan 2015, In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing. 22, 2-3, p. 99-105 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Epistemological
• 2019

  Applying ethics to itself: Recursive ethical questioning in architecture and second-order cybernetics

  Sweeting, B., 1 Apr 2019, In: Kybernetes. 48, 4, p. 805-815 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Ethics
  • cybernetics
  • Architecture
  • moral philosophy
• 2015

  Composing conferences

  Hohl, M. (ed.) & Sweeting, B. (ed.), 15 Nov 2015, In: Constructivist Foundations. 11, 1, p. 1-118 118 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

  File

  • constructivism
  • cybernetics
  • knowledge management
  • epistemology
  • pragmatics

• Living in Cybernetics: papers from the 50th Anniversary Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics

  Baron, P. (ed.), Glanville, R. (ed.), Griffiths, D. (ed.) & Sweeting, B. (ed.), 6 Nov 2015, Bingley, UK: Emerald. 245 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited

  • cybernetics
  • anniversary
  • commitment
• 2017

  Cybernetics, virtue ethics and design

  Sweeting, B., 14 Dec 2017, Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD6) 2017 Symposium. Sevaldson, B. (ed.). Oslo, Norway: Systemic Design Research Network, p. 0-0 1 p. (Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Conference contribution with ISSN or ISBN › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Virtue Ethics
  • Aristotle
  • Flourishing
  • Systems Thinking
• 2016

  A theatre for exploring the cybernetic

  Sweeting, B., 14 Jul 2016, In: Constructivist Foundations. 11, 3, p. 619-620 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Open Peer Commentaries
  • Rehearsal
  • Naturalism
  • Questioning
• 2020

  Forward: Acting cybernetically: Papers from the 2019 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics

  Sweeting, B. & Scholte, T., Jul 2020, In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing. 27, 2, p. 5-7

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

  • Cybernetics
  • Vancouver
  • British Columbia
  • Canada
• 2015

  Exploring alternatives to the traditional conference format: introduction to the special issue on composing conferences

  Sweeting, B. & Hohl, M., 15 Nov 2015, In: Constructivist Foundations. 11, 1, p. 1-7 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • constructivism
  • cybernetics
  • epistemology
  • organization
  • knowledge management
• 2020

  Relating systems thinking and design (VI): Within social and environmental systems

  Davidova, M., Sweeting, B. & Sevaldson, B., 24 Feb 2020, In: FORMakademisk. 13, 2

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

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  • Systems Thinking
  • Social Systems
  • Turin
  • Launch
  • Founding
• 2015

  Cybernetics of practice

  Sweeting, B., 6 Nov 2015, In: Kybernetes. 44, 8-9, p. 1397-1405 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • Teleology
  • Epistemology
  • Originality
  • Methodology
• 2017

  Design research as a variety of second-order cybernetic practice

  Sweeting, B., 1 Nov 2017, New horizons for second-order cybernetics. Riegler, A., Müller, K. H. & Umpleby, S. A. (eds.). Singapore: World Scientific, p. 227-238 12 p. (Series on knots and everything).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review

  • Cybernetics
  • Interactivity
  • Constructivist
  • Resurgence
  • Overlap
• 2016

  Author's response: Beyond Application

  Sweeting, B., 14 Jul 2016, In: Constructivist Foundations. 11, 3, p. 591-597 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cybernetics
  • cybernetics