[P2P-F] alexander's pattern languages, great intro

[Michel Bauwens]

Poor Richard <poor.ricardo at gmail.com> Oct 05 04:41AM -0700
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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
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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]
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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-christopher-alexander
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