Poor Richard <[email protected]> Oct 05 04:41AM -0700 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#132d42dea6c91bdf_digest_top> This material relates to designing or modelling elements of the next net ecosystem (including organizations) on nature (bio-mimicry): The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander - Metropolis Magazine < http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20110906/the-radical-technology-of-christopher-alexander> [image: The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander - Metropolis Magazine | The Integral Landscape Café | Scoop.it] < http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20110906/the-radical-technology-of-christopher-alexander> Chances are, you have heard of Christopher Alexander because of his most famous book on architecture, A Pattern Language. Alexander, the mathematician, was always concerned with the processes by which parts transform into wholes. He wants to know how we are implementing this part-whole synthesis; how nature does it; and especially, where we, in our own human version, might be getting it wrong. This is the key to an important realization about natural systems and how they generate form — one that, as Alexander has long noted, is distinct from how we humans typically generate form. And this is not a mere philosophical matter of humans being different from nature, or “having culture.” It’s a question of how we humans can also have a technology that is actually more complex, resilient, and sustainable — quite literally, more life-like. Full article< http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20110906/the-radical-technology-of-christop...

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