ASC Series: Annetta Pedretti: Weaving Language, Reflections, Memories and Stories

Annetta Pedretti (1954-2018) entered the world of cybernetic thinking likely long before the term entered her lexicon and thus epistemology. As a student of Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün, and other first generation second-order cyberneticians, Pedretti constructed cybernetic ideas such as the I of language and self-reference, and a novel sense of time.
Most relevant to this event is her use of cybernetics when making art while designing and restoring the house she purchased four decades ago at 25 Princelet Street in London, England.
After her death in 2018, a non-profit group of progressive London architects known as Assemble acquired the house on Princlet Street and named it the HOUSE OF ANNETTA. In the spirit of Annetta Pedretti, they are designing a community center nested in “cybernetic tendencies for generating social justice.”
Problem: Although the house is full of traces left of and by Annetta, members of the Assemble collective never met the woman: the architect, artivist, archivist, publisher, writer, provocateur, and bee steward. She was truly a Jane of many trades, a cybernetician.
Assemble desires to know more about the person known as Annetta Pedretti. So, during this event, some ASC members who knew her will share stories about Annetta.
Please join us in dialogue and hopefully conversation. Bring your questions, comments, and a story about Annetta to share. Who knows maybe Annetta will make a surprise appearance.