Dr. Claudia Westermann’s research is informed by second-order cybernetics, actualizing in interdisciplinary projects concerned with the ecologies, poetics and philosophies of art and architectural design.
Published onJan 13, 2021
Claudia Westermann
Claudia Westermann, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned researcher, artist and licensed architect, and a senior associate professor in architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She is a member of the German Chamber of Architects, Vice President of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), and managing co-editor of Technoetic Arts, a journal that has fostered transdisciplinary and practice-based research in art and design for more than two decades. Claudia Westermann’s projects have been shown in many prestigious exhibitions. She has received awards for her practice and teaching, including two provincial and three national awards related to studio teaching and a county-level award for a Philosophy of Art module that brings indigenous Chinese positions into dialogue with Western thought. For her visionary engagement and fostering of systemic design research and practice, she received the Margaret Mead Prize from the American Society for Cybernetics in 2024.
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