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Figure 7.23.
the fun Palace's cybernetic control system. Pask 1965, 3, diagram 1.
(by permission of cedric Price fonds, collection centre d'architecture/canadian
centre for architecture, montréal.)
reconfigurations both reacts to emergent patterns of use and fosters new
ones.
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Hence, I think, Roy Landau's reference to the Fun Palace as “encour-
aging . . . ideas to grow and to develop further.” In a 1969 essay, Pask argued
that cybernetic architecture would “elicit [the inhabitant's] interest as well as
simply answering his queries” (Pask 1969a, 496), citing Musicolour and the
Colloquy of Mobiles as examples of what he had in mind. Figure 7.23 repro-
duces Pask's 1965 logic diagram of the “cybernetic control system” for the Fun
Palace, which features “unmodified people” as input and “modified people” as
