Self-organization and Design as a Complementary Pair

Book chapter (2016)

Authors

J.A.S. Kelso Florida Atlantic University

E.H. Stolk Environmental Technology and Design - Architecture and the Built Environment

Y. Portugali Environmental Technology and Design - Architecture and the Built Environment , Tel Aviv University

Research Group

Environmental Technology and Design (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)

Urbanism Complexity Urban Geography/Urbanism Regional/Spatial Science

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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Environmental Technology and Design

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.