Parallel breakout by @helenefinidori@PUARLuo 2018 Conference.
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Helene Finidori is a Ph.D Candidate, University of Hull Centre for Systems Studies
More questions
- What do I mean by systemic?
At Purplsoc 2017, had questions at various scales
For PUARL scale, we’re at a great scale with Migrants and Refugees
What does systemic design look like, for wicked problems?
- Different in nature: social, environmental, psychological, technological
- No right solutions
- As soon as action is taken, context changes
Trying to take a systemic approach to pattern languages, focuses on forces
Beyond pattern catalog, could we create a pattern catalog?
- Learning to see things
- Awareness
- Working with systems literacy at International Society for the Systems Sciences
- We have a patterning instinct, how can we enhance these competences for recognizing, assembling patters
In 2015, proposed the notion of a 4th generation pattern language at Purplsoc, building on Takashi Iba’s 3-generation model
- More objects of design, systemic forms, structure, behaviours
- Active design
- Want to connect agency, directionality
- We haven’t gone far, had a workshop at PLoP
At the of 2017, created a systems sciences and pattern literacy group with the Bertalanffy Centre, conducted a survey
A synthesized pattern definition
- An arrangement
- of elements
- repeated or repeatable
- cognized or recognized
- as manifestation of reality (whatever philosophy) of a system of work
- inquiring, meaning-making and design
- crossing boundaries
- key in understanding and orientation of systems behavior and outcomes
Responses
Connecting inquiry, meaning-making and design
Patterns exist in the world, in our minds, as material forms, similtaneously (as captured by Christopher Alexander)
- Michael Mehaffy: partial symmetric relaitons and isomorphic correspondences
- Christian Kohl
How does this work?
- Work on Harvard on core human languages, pre-linguistic: Cary and Spelke — forms, quantity, objects, agents, places
How do we retain what we perceive?
How effective is the problem-solution associaton?
Things and generative processes
Ways forward:
- Acknowledge the semiotic nature of pattern
Can we use patterns as systemic research / boundary objects
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