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Cybernetic diagrams promote a horizon in which open architectural games could subvert the prevalence of the lone game of the expert, formalized in generative algorithms

Concluding statement of the paper projecting cybernetic open games as a counter to authorial parametric design.

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Cybernetic Diagrams: Design Strategies for an Open Game

(2014) · Veloso, Pedro L.A.

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Schumacher’s parametricism promotes games whose rules are still constrained within the authorial domain; whenever participants are taken into consideration, they are subsumed to parameters.
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Critique that parametricism leaves players little agency, reducing them to parameters in an automated system.

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how do diagrams relate to this play with apparatus?
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Explicit question posed by Veloso to frame the investigation of cybernetic diagrams as strategies for engaging with black-box devices.

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