Self-organization and Design as a Complementary Pair

Book Chapter (2016)
Author(s)

J.A.S. Kelso (Florida Atlantic University)

Egbert Stolk (TU Delft - Environmental Technology and Design)

Y. Portugali (Tel Aviv University, TU Delft - Environmental Technology and Design)

Research Group
Environmental Technology and Design
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32653-5_3
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Publication Year
2016
Language
English
Research Group
Environmental Technology and Design
Pages (from-to)
43-53
ISBN (print)
978-3-319-32651-1
ISBN (electronic)
978-3-319-32653-5

Abstract

Self-organization implies that order and regularity can come into being (emerge) spontaneously as a purely bottom-up process. Design implies the exact opposite: that order and organization come into being by virtue of a designer in a top-down manner. In this paper we treat these apparent contraries as a complementary pair, and use the notion of SIRN to show how they may coexist.

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