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