# Orit Halpern

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EP 04 | Framing Planetary Design, Part III: Intelligence, with Orit Halpern

The irrepressible rise of AI sees us enter a feedback loop between artificial and human cognition, as discussed here by author and scholar of digital cultures Orit Halpern. What does this mean for the automation of environmental intelligence? If AI is the answer, what’s the question?+++This present…

EP. 03 | Framing Planetary Design, Part II: Values, with Claudia Mareis

Postwar debates heralded the ingenuity of design, even as practitioners like Buckminster Fuller projected the “whole earth” as a testing ground. Examining these techno-scientific, universalist ambitions, designer and cultural scientist Claudia Mareis questions the modernist and imperialist agendas …

EP. 02 | Framing Planetary Design, Part I: Scales, with Kenny Cupers

Design is often called upon to solve problems that have their roots in political and ecological crises. Drawing upon his research on the history of Empire, academic and researcher Kenny Cupers reveals the origins of planetary thinking as a design project, always intended to shape the very nature of…

EP. 01 | Introduction to "Planetary Design. Reclaiming Futures" with Governing through Design

What possibilities unfold — political, social, cultural — if we propose design as a planetary endeavour, rather than as a problem solving activity? This driving question around the notion of planetary design, frames a discussion between KoozArch founder Federica Zambeletti with Kenny Cupers, Orit H…

The Mediated City 10 (2025 New Release): Sentient Cities

Software and networked devices are highly pervasive in the city, perhaps more than we tend to realise, and their consequences as urban media are becoming more apparent. The relatively sudden arrival of new, easy-to-use tools and streamlined interfaces sold under the broad banner of ‘AI’ may may be …

EP 09 | Countering catastrophic thinking

It often feels as though there are more frequent climate emergencies and environmental disasters than we can properly acknowledge, with consequences still to unfold. While some parties choose to profit from disaster capitalism, Özgün Eylül Işcen, Nadia Christidi and Sudipto Basu discuss their stanc…

Preview | Orit Halpern on Agentic Imaginaries (NM88) 2025

This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe: https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com Our guest is Orit Halpern: co-author of The Smartness Mandate (MIT Press, 2023); author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke, 2014); …

Cybernetics

Misha Glenny and guests discuss cybernetics – the field of study which gave us the prefix ‘cyber’ and helped lay the foundations for the information age. After the Second World War, cybernetics emerged as the study of communication, feedback, and control in both animals and machines. Cybernetics wa…

Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy

Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy Shownotes Orit Halpern Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-in Orit Halpern’s website: https://orithalpern.net/ Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and…

Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy

Orit Halpern on Knowledge, Data and Democracy Shownotes Orit Halpern Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern at TU Dresden: https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/inhaber-in Orit Halpern’s website: https://orithalpern.net/ Halpern, O. (2015). Beautiful data: A history of vision and…