Intellegere, Conciliare, Evolvere
Join us in shaping how we understand and navigate the systems that bind our world together.
Neo-Cybernetics is a loose community of people brought together by a shared passion for cybernetics, systems thinking, complexity, and futures studies.
Rooted in the legacy of early cybernetics yet shaped by the challenges of the 21st century, we explore how living, technological, and social systems evolve and interact.
By connecting ideas from systems thinking, ecology, design, and futures thinking, we look for patterns that can help societies adapt with fairness and resilience.
Above all, Neo-Cybernetics is about keeping technology and systems in service to people and the planet, not the other way around.
Neo-Cybernetics is about building a shared understanding of our changing world, marked by complexity, uncertainty, and new risks.
We look at how systems—social, ecological, and technological—interact, and we bring together insights from many disciplines to help communities and organisations stay resilient.
Our main objectives are:
We encourage open exchange between ideas, theories, and methods from different domains, aiming for insights that no single discipline could achieve alone.
We're not only interested in analyzing systems but also in testing and applying approaches that acknowledge the full scope of a problem, leading to solutions that are practical and sustainable.
We hope to encourage and equip a new generation of people who can work with complex systems and apply systems thinking, whether in companies, governments, charities, or community groups, so that decisions serve human and ecological well-being, not just short-term gain.
When cybernetics first emerged in the mid-20th century, its pioneers saw it as a way to understand how systems (machines, people, and societies) adapt and self-regulate. It was a hopeful, interdisciplinary project that aimed to guide technology and institutions toward more thoughtful and humane directions.
Over time, however, cybernetics lost momentum. Other fields borrowed its ideas, but the discipline itself became fragmented, and much of its original vision was forgotten. Meanwhile, education and institutions remained focused on narrow goals and short-term outcomes, leaving little space for systems thinking or long-range reflection.
Today, the challenges we face, including climate change, global risks, technological disruption—what many now call the ‘metacrisis’— , are exactly the kind of problems cybernetics was built to address. Reviving the discipline means reviving a way of thinking that connects across domains, balances ethics with innovation, and helps us see how choices ripple through the larger systems we depend on.
Explore the world of neo-cybernetics through our channels.
Click on the links below to access the resources:
Medium Publication: Research articles, case studies, and thought pieces written by our authors.
Official Github: Theoretical models and operative frameworks created by the Neo-Cybernetics open community.
Neo-Cybernetics Manifesto: The foundational document outlining the core principles, objectives, and vision of the Neo-Cybernetics movement.