Name: "From green to smart buildings: towards a Multi-Level Cybernetic Perspective (MLCP) of Built Environment Transition Intermediaries (BETIs)"
Start: 2025-07-05T11:45:00+0100
End: 2025-07-05T12:45:00+0100

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Saturday July 5, 2025 11:45 - 12:45 BST

MBS Room 1

My current PhD research at the ANU School of Cybernetics (College of Systems & Society) seeks to develop new systemic understandings of organisations that intermediate socio-technical transitions in our built environments. I am focussing on organisations that change industry, government and market behaviour through ratings and certifications and other activities that promote multi-scale, cross-sector transitions towards built environments that are said to be greener, healthier, more socially responsible.

Though this research, I am synthesising and deploying new theoretical and practical frameworks—combining the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) from transitions research and the Viable System Model (VSM) of management cybernetics—to analyse the multi-faceted, cross-systemic roles and operations of these 'built environment transition intermediaries' (or BETIs).

Buildings outsized impacts on people, planet and profits (i.e. triple bottom lines). Underlaying all of this is a belief that new ways of thinking and doing is necessary as buildings evolve from physical structures to increasingly 'smart' or automated cyber-physical systems o indeed, robots that we live in. BETIs could play an important cybernetic role in sensing, shaping, steering, scaling us towards alternate future built environments and ensuring that the transition is safe, sustainable and responsible.

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Tom Chan

PhD Candidate, School of Cybernetics, College of System & Society, Australian National University (ANU)

Tom is a policy wonk, regulatory economist, and closet creative who loves to wrangle wicked problems at the interface of law, micro-economics and tech. Tom is currently a PhD candidate (first cohort) in the School of Cybernetics, College of Systems & Society at the Australian National... Read More →

Saturday July 5, 2025 11:45 - 12:45 BST
MBS Room 1 Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) The University of Manchester Booth Street West Manchester M15 6PB, England, United Kingdom

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