Taking on a historical lens, this paper traces the development of cybernetics and systems thinking back to the 1950s, when a group of interdisciplinary scholars converged to create a new theoretical model based on machines and systems for understanding matters of meaning, information, consciousness, and life. By presenting a genealogy of research in the landscape architecture discipline, the paper argues that landscape architects have been an important part of the development of cybernetics by materializing systems based on cybernetic principles in the environment through ecologically based landscape design. The landscape discipline has developed a design framework that provides transformative insights into understanding machine intelligence. The paper calls for a new paradigm of environmental engagement to understand matters of design and machine intelligence.

翻译：本文采用历史视角，追溯控制论与系统思维自20世纪50年代以来的发展脉络——彼时一群跨学科学者汇聚一堂，基于机器与系统构建了理解意义、信息、意识与生命本质的新型理论模型。通过梳理景观设计学科的研究谱系，本文论证景观设计师始终是控制论发展的重要参与者，他们依托生态导向的景观设计，将基于控制论原理的系统物化于环境之中。这门景观学科构建的设计框架，为理解机器智能提供了具有变革意义的洞见。本文呼吁建立新的环境互动范式，以深化对设计与机器智能议题的理解。