Plenary at Purplsoc, Takashi Iba @taka_iba, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
- See bio at http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~iba/
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At PURPLSOC (Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change) 2015, Danube University Krems, Austria
Day introduction by Richard Sickinger
- (Waiting 5 minutes for people who are from other timezones, to start)
Introduction
- Active in pattern community fo the last year
[Takashi Iba, slides posted at http://www.slideshare.net/takashiiba/pattern-language-30-and-fundamental-behavioral-properties-takashi-iba-purplsoc15-keynote-2015]
With students, over 10 years, have published 2500+ patterns
Frontiers of pattern language method: Social, communication ways in pattern language
- 1. New domains
- 2. New process
- 3. News ways
- 4. New tools
- 5. New theory
1. New domains for pattern language
- Was proposed in architecture
- Then used in software patterns, started by Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham
- Gang of Four Design Pattern language is a kind of pattern language, not like architectural pattern languages
- Many books in software patterns
- Many conferences
- Pedagogical patterns (Joseph Bergin) and fearless change patterns (Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising)
- 2014 Learning Papers, 40 patterns for designing one way of creative learning
Used pattern language originally to support curriculum development in 2008
- Pattern 1: Opportunity for Learning
- Pattern 2: Learning by Creating
- Pattern 3: Talking Thinker
- Pattern 28: Community of Learning
- 2011, Presentation Patterns
New genre of pattern languages, not in software (generation 2) or architecture (generation 1)
So, propose third generation pattern language on human action
Object of design
- PL1 Physical forms
- PL2 Non-physical forms
- PL3 Forms of human action
Since then, have created many pattern languages
Collaboration Patterns: A Pattern Language for Creative Collaborations
Change Making Patterns: A Pattern Language for Fostering Social Entrepreneurship, Sumire Nakamura, Eri Shimomukai
Survival Language: A Pattern Language for Surviving Earthquakes, Tomoki Furukawazono
Words for a Journey: The Art of Being With Dementia
- Expect 3 types of readers: people with dementia, families, network of companies or government
Strange application domain? Important. First in the welfare domain, close to Alexander’s motivation of creating quality
- Alexander 1985: the house is no longer an “object” which is manufactured, but a thing of love, which is nurtured, made, grown and personal
Book was published in Japan
- In bookstore, article in Asahi Shimbun, Kanagawa Times, Sankei Shimbun
Last year, started Pattern Language 3.0 Seminar Series for Industry
- About 30 companies, including Toyota, Fujitsu, BNP
Advising on Pattern Language 3.0 in Government Offices
- For Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Have Pattern Language 3.0 for Kids, based on presentation patterns, to improve classroom discussion
2. New Process of creating pattern language
- Alexander not interested in designing pattern language? Need to open the black box
Practices in the software patterns community
- Shepherding
- Writer’s workshop
Holistic pattern mining
- Early, need to mine patterns
- Brainstorming, discuss
- 1. Element mining
- 2. Visual clustering
- 3. Seed making
Video: Holistic Pattern Mining, the case of collaboration patterns (2012) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plpwld6dIms
- 360 elements created in 7 hours
- Clustering, 19 hours over 4 days
- Then revisions over 2 months
This is a way of developing a pattern language as a whole
- In software, have tended to do a small number of patterns added slowly over years, miss the vision of the whole
Mining interview and mining workshop
- Interviewed families of people with dementia
- Blue post-its are potential solutions, yellow as potential problems
Pattern illustrating
- Illustration complements text
- (Re-)drew 500 illustrations for 34 patterns
Last year, 3 girls created Pattern Illustrating Patterns
Another book, A Tale of Pattern Illustrating
Pattern Writing Sheet, for beginners, available on the web at http://creativeshift.jp/sheet/
Creating Own Pattern Language for Kids, in cooperation with Kazuo Tsukahara (teacher)
- Kids design own homework
3. New Process of creating pattern languages
- For piecemeal growth of knowledge
- How to learn patterns, and how to learn how to use pattern languages
Dialogue Workshop with Pattern Language
- Using patterns to trigger / discuss
- Worked with 6000 both in Japan, and outside
- Patterns that have experienced, and then look for others experiences
- Used with 900 freshmen at Keio U. every year
Pattern Language as a Vocabulary for Communication
Planning and reflection with a Pattern Language
Idea Generation with Pattern Language
4. New tools for Pattern Language
Learning Pattern Cards at http://www.amazon.com/CreativeShift-Learning-Pattern-Cards/dp/B00NBEGXPS
- Workshop for high school students
- Workshop for high school teachers
Collaboration Pattern Cards at http://www.amazon.com/CreativeShift-Collaboration-Pattern-Cards/dp/B00NBEFLGK
A web system to utilize pattern language: Beauty
Stickers of patterns
5. New Theory on Pattern Language (presentation tomorrow)
Alexander proposed 15 geometrical properties
Now studying 24 fundamental behavioral properties
Why difficult to apply?
- 1. Finding the mechanism behind the patters
- 2. Refined and revised the properties
- 3. Describing behavioral properties
Have Generative Films at http://generativefilms.org
Fundamental Behavioral Properties can be used when pattern mining
In brief. David Ing. 