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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Learning to affirm open futures: interventions for situated practices," co-authored with my colleagues of the Crosscultural Research in Architecture Collective (CRAC), is part of the upcoming report to the @clubofrome.org . For updates, join here: chat.whatsapp.com/JawkijpCqwU8... #nolimitstohope

Promotional graphic on a soft teal-green gradient. Across the top are three logos: World Environmental Education Congress Network, The Club of Rome, and the fifth element. The headline reads “The transformative power of learning: Constellations of Hope.” On the left is a dark blue hardcover book streaked with light trails, titled “Constellations of Hope: Cases and Perspectives of Transformative Learning,” edited by Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Mario Salomone and Raad Sharar, published by Globethics, and marked “A report to the Club of Rome.” To the right, large text reads “Closing the gap between changing the world and understanding it,” with “changing” and “understanding” highlighted in orange. Below that, a yellow label says “Latest report to the Club of Rome.” At the bottom: “Launch: 4 November 2026.”

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Glad to report that my text 'Technoetic Ecologies of Another AI: Play, Process, and the Post-Biological Imagination' has been published in the latest issue of @leonardoisast.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1162/LEON... #planetarycollegium #cybernetics #AI #Daoism #technoetic

Table of contents for the "Focus: The Chimeric Mind" section of Leonardo, Volume 59, Number 5 (2026). Seven articles are listed: "The Chimeric Mind" by Clarissa Ribeiro and Roy Ascott; "Technoetic Ecologies of Another AI: Play, Process, and the Post-Biological Imagination" by Claudia Westermann; "Interspecies Interfaces in Artistic Contexts: Forest Signals as the Basis for Ecosystemic Intelligence" by Cesar Baio and Lucy HG Solomon; "Data as Landed Property" by Daniela Rosner, Hanna Barakat, Jeffrey Basoah, Amelia Dogan and Sucheta Ghoshal; "Decolonial Contingencies in Artificial Intelligence–Generated Images and Landscapes" by Matheus Montanari and Gilbertto Prado; "Entangled Visions: Cocreativity and Biomimicry in Contemporary AI Art" by Rewa Wright and Gavin Sade; and "The Chimeric Entity: Narratives and Algorithms in Hybrid Ecology" by Laura Beloff.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We'll do a lunchtime panel at John Curtin Gallery (Perth, WA) in response to the Regional Arts Triennial. Wednesday 28 October, 12pm – 1pm. Free event, open to the public. Register here: events.humanitix.com/jcg-lunchtim...

A small bundle of brown and white feathers hangs on thin orange and black wires, suspended in the middle of a dim, grey room. Across the walls behind it, layered projections of dark, scratchy, feather-like marks fill the surfaces. A large shadowy branching form appears at the upper left.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New podcast episode featuring my true self for its last 24 minutes. I speak on cybernetics' pluralism, AI, and critical technical practice. Before I speak, Larry Richards and Allenna Leonard offer a different contextualisation of cybernetics. linktr.ee/storieslived...

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

with Keeley Mitchell Bruno Nunes Vaz Vasily Betin Olaf Brugman Andri Stahel Ana Baltazar Marlon Brownsword Audrey Murphy

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Technoetic Arts @technoeticarts.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Out now: Technoetic Arts 24.1, 'Synthetic Sentience'. Slime moulds computing, superworms eating styrofoam, neural cultures performing after a composer's death, walking with an AI along a sea-level line. Editorial open access. ta.pubpub.org/pub/24-1-pom...

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The ASC2026 conference podcast! On Conversational Confluences at the American Society for Cybernetics Conference | Ep. 166 Abbie VanMeter is joined by the participants of the 2026 American Society for Cybernetics in Ouro Preto, Brazil. cmminstitute.substack.com/p/on-convers... #cybernetics #Brazil

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On show until Friday, 21 August 2026, in #Perth, AU! Shelled and Feathered | A cartography of #more-than-human living / An installation by Monika Lukowska-Appel, Pia Interlandi and Claudia Westermann. DBE Gallery, Building 418, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, August 10 - 21, 2026.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We warmly invite you to participate in the RSDX–ASC Conversational Confluences Online Series, taking place August 24-27, 2026. It extends the themes of ASC 2026: Conversational Confluences and connects them with RSD15's theme, Designing within a Plural World. www.eventbrite.ca/e/rsd15-rsdx...

ASC2026 post-conference @RSD15 - banner announcing the event. White and yeallow text on largely black background

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The ASC 60 special issue of Cybernetics & Human Knowing is now available online and in select libraries. Includes an editorial introduction to my creative, often collaborative practice, plus images of related works throughout. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/... #cybernetics #creativepractice

Photo of three items side by side: the printed cover of 'Cybernetics & Human Knowing,' Volume 32, No. 3-4, 2025, ASC 60th Anniversary issue, featuring a teal-toned cover image of two ghostly figures; two open pages of the journal's Foreword by Carlos Vidales, introducing guest artist Claudia Westermann; and a black-and-white photograph of a sculptural installation made from wood, wire, and bicycle parts, captioned as 'Symphony of the Everyday – Sunset Sonata' (2024) by Dong, Feng, and Westermann.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Note: this opportunity is primarily for Australian citizens/permanent residents. We may support one international applicant for a related topic, but only with a substantial exhibition/publication record, competing against ~100 applicants for 2 positions. Questions? See the link for contact.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

PhD scholarship: "Tools for Living in More-than-Human Worlds," Ecologies of Imagination Micro Lab, Curtin University. Practice-based research. EoI due 31 July 2026. curtin.edu.au/research/hdr-r-projects/tools-for-living-in-more-than-human-worlds/ #PhD #RTP #scholarship

Promotional graphic for the Ecologies of Imagination Micro Lab. A circular photo of textured, fibrous bark-like material in cream and rust-red tones sits over a grey stone-textured background. Text reads: 'Ecologies of Imagination Micro Lab. PhD scholarship. Tools for Living in More-than-Human Worlds.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Come and join this online Speaker Series event by @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social. The registration is free. >>Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation<< with Chris Danta, ANU. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #cybernetics #AI #morethanhuman

Poster for the Speaker Series event of the American Society of Cybernetics on 30 or 31 May 2026, depending on location. Red, white, and rose coloured writing on a solid dark orange background. The text says: Hosted by the American Society for Cybernetics
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Nonhuman Perspective and
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Chris Danta, ANU
Saturday, May 30
10 PM New York
Sunday, May 31
10 AM Perth and China
12 PM Sydney
2 PM Wellington

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Implicit, not explicit, in Wiener, I think. I recommend this text: Glanville, Ranulph. 2014. “Cybernetics: Thinking Through the Technology.” In Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments. edited by Darrell Arnold, 45–77. London: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9780....

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

There is a need to revisit the relation of first and second order, as Wiener knew of second order already before the first order, which he is said to have invented: www.jstor.org/stable/184668

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The Role of the Observer on JSTOR

Norbert Wiener, The Role of the Observer, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul., 1936), pp. 307-319

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A combination of madness and evil.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Cover: Revivification (2025), Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts & Matt Gingold. Photo: Rebecca Mansell. Courtesy Art Gallery of Western Australia. 6/6

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Together, these articles map territories where determination meets indeterminacy, revealing how life exceeds the scripts that partially structure it. Full issue via Intellect Discover: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour... 5/6

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Volume 23, Issue 2 | Intellect

Intellect Discover is the platform where Intellect's content lives: Browse publications for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Lindsay Polly Crisp on Michael Landy's instruction manual — G. Douglas Barrett on cerebral organoids producing music — Vasia I. Hatzi on biomedical imaging art — Vasily Betin on 'Designed Emergence' — Joshua Wodak on David Rokeby — Sarah-Jane Field on AI aesthetics & Flusser 4/6

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The editorial traces how informational metaphors transformed understandings of life from mathematical patterns to readable, executable programmes. Contributions examine this tension across domains. 3/6

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Issue 23.2 explores the relationship between scripts and life through six articles examining instruction manuals, genetic codes, algorithmic systems, and AI-generated imagery. 2/6

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Happy to announce the publication of Technoetic Arts 23.2 @technoeticarts.bsky.social ! My editorial "Reflections on scripts and life" is open access: doi.org/10.1386/tear.... Issue overview: ta.pubpub.org/pub/issue-23... #TechnoeticArts #BioArt #AI #CriticalAI #Art 1/5 | @dlila.bsky.social

Cover of Technoetic Arts journal, Volume 23 Number 2, published by Intellect Journals (ISSN 1477-965X). The cover image shows an installation view of 'Revivification' (2025) by Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts, and Matt Gingold, photographed by Rebecca Mansell, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The work fills a darkened gallery space with rows of illuminated golden circular forms mounted on black walls receding into the distance, with a geometric textile or printed element placed on the floor in the foreground.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Happy to report that the submissions period has been extended to 16 March 2026!

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ray Ison has been developing courses for the Open University: profiles.open.ac.uk/ray-ison. See the links in the first paragraph of his bio.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

You can access all articles of this issue and others (three per day) with a free registration. With a voluntary subscription to Constructivist Foundations, you can download the entire issue as a PDF. constructivist.info/21/1 4/4

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Constructivist Foundations 21(1)

An international peer-reviewed e-journal focussing on the multidisciplinary study of the philosophical and scientific foundations and applications of constructivist appraoches

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I have written a commentary for the latter article on the topic of uncertainty. My text is entitled "Maturana's Non-Dualist Philosophy of Living." 3/4

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The issue also includes commentaries from members of the @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics. Pille Bunnell has written a commentary for the first article, and Cristina Magro, Mateus van Stralen & José Cabral Filho have co-authored another. 2/4

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The latest issue of Constructivist Foundations constructivist.info/21/1 features two articles on Humberto Maturana. One is a previously unpublished conversation with Ignacio Muñoz-Cristi on anthroporobotics. The other, co-authored by Andrey S. Druzhinin & Diego A. Ramírez, is on uncertainty. 1/4

Cover of Constructivist Foundations journal, Volume 21 Number 1, November 2025 (ISSN 1782-348X). The cover features an abstract, textured artwork with layered geometric shapes in vibrant colors including turquoise, red, yellow, green, orange, and white. The composition suggests weathered urban surfaces or collaged architectural fragments, with visible paint textures, linear elements, and a prominent yellow leaf-like shape in the upper left quadrant. The journal title "CONSTRUCTIVIST FOUNDATIONS" appears in bold red and black letters across the top third of the image, with the subtitle "An interdisciplinary journal" and website "www.constructivist.info" beneath. The artwork's fragmented, palimpsest-like quality evokes themes of construction, layering, and emergent pattern—resonating with constructivist epistemology's emphasis on knowledge as actively constructed rather than passively received.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Call for Participation for the ASC 2026 Conference: Conversational Confluences, to be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, from August 3 to 7, 2026. Submission: December 22, 2025, to February 23, 2026 More information: events.asc-cybernetics.org/2026/ #cybernetics #art #design #Beer100 #vsm

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A special thanks also to Richard Brook for the 'capitalism ate everything' closing remarks.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

... for creating the frames and structures for the conference and for inviting me to deliver the opening keynote; to Martin Winchester for keeping things running. Thanks to all the speakers and track chairs who made the conference such an insightful event.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This year's conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), "Conceptualising Environments" (www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/), has concluded. Thanks to AHRA (Nick Beech), the organising team, Christina Malathouni, Yat Shun (Juliana) Kei, and Ranald Lawrence...

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

An excellent article. It will be included in the next issue. If you are a subscriber to Technoetic Arts, you can read it now.

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Technoetic Arts @technoeticarts.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We are happy to report that Technoetic Arts 23.1 is on the way! The special issue collects articles from TTT2023 Malta, the 5th international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science". Edited by Dalila Honorato @dlila.bsky.social. Preview at: ta.pubpub.org/pub/ttt-malt....

Cover of Technoetic Arts 23.1 showing back and front. The front shows an image in red with a drawn fragment of an embryo. The back lists the authors and articles: DALILA HONORATO Editorial: On the Importance of Transgression in Academic Outcomes | HEGE TAPIO How Does One Synthetically Produce Love? | JORDAN KOKOT Overcoming Life: Neuralink, Cyborgs and the (An)Aesthetics of Cure | CLAUDIO DE MELO FILHO Decentralizing Hegemonic Knowledge in Art Practices | LYN HAGAN Containment | GREGORIO TENTI Art and Mutation on a Postnatural Planet | YOSAKU MATSUTANI Art as Decomposition: Soichiro Mihara’s Making Soil | EBRU YETISKIN Political Ecology Imaginaries and Possible Futures in Turkey.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

My weekend reading recommendation. Open access.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Happy to report this achievement. 1001 thanks to our authors, reviewers and readers!

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Robin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

From organiser Georgi Gardiner on FB: "Next week people will gather online to celebrate the philosophical artworks of Helen De Cruz. (@helendecruz.net) Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 11am - 12.20pm Central US Time (i.e. 5pm BST) on Zoom All welcome! No background knowledge required."

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Georgi Gardiner - Helen

Helen De Cruz is a trailblazer for creative, avant-garde approaches to thinking in community with others. This event celebrates her work. On Zoom: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/6185944474 Tues June 24t...

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Experience a small courtyard inhabited by four families in Haiyan village, Kunming, China and the objects and materials that make a village household’s everyday tangible in its aesthetic dimension. @systemic-design.bsky.social rsdsymposium.org/symphony-of-... #publicart #revitalization #design

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The recording of "Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design: A conversation on the role of human subjectivity in understanding more-than-human lifeworlds." is on YouTube: youtu.be/yqZEcifvkgg?... @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social with Annan Zuo, Frederick Steier and Claudia Westermann

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Pluriversal Ecologies: Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and More-than-Human Design

YouTube video by American Society for Cybernetics - ASC

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...

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STANDING OVATION!!! | Cecilia Culver, The George Washington University 2025 Commencement Speech

YouTube video by EverydayPal

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is in a few hours on Sunday - online - and the registration is free. Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera. Join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I am happy to announce that the open access proceedings volume with selected contributions to the 2024 Architecture Across Boundaries conference has been published. Links to each chapter are provided on the book's Contents page: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #systemicdesign #architecture

The image shows a table of contents from a book or journal titled "Systemic Approaches to Architectural Design." It lists multiple chapters with their authors, page numbers, and download options. Each chapter entry includes:

The chapter title (e.g., "Undisciplined: The Afterlife of Speculative Drawings")
Author names
Page ranges (e.g., "Pages 283-291")
"Open Access" label for freely available chapters
"Download chapter PDF" links with download icons

The table includes approximately 10 chapters covering diverse architectural topics such as:

Speculative drawings
Micro-landscapes and materiality
Digital processes in built environments
Porosity in architecture
Case studies of specific architectural projects
Theory appropriation in architecture
Design methodologies
Chinese socialist architectural design strategies

The layout is clean with alternating light background separators between entries, creating a well-organized academic publication index.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Merve Sahin in conversation with Dulmini Perera: join us in exploring Gordon Pask’s CASTE implementation in the design of Edwin Schlossberg’s Learning Environment at The Brooklyn Children's Museum.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Limited print edition offer extended to April 23! The ASC60 special issue includes a selected contributions to the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the @asc-cybernetics.bsky.social American Society for Cybernetics. Head to the journal's website constructivist.info/20/2 at the latest on April 23.

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Claudia Westermann @litradesign.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My Earth Day text. Written in 2021 but more valid today. The manuscript is available for download here: philpapers.org/archive/WESO...

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