\n“Guiding patterns of naturally occurring design”<\/strong><\/p>\n
1) For PURPLSOC 2015: on “Elements<\/a>” \u00a0(final for publication) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0______________________<\/p>\n To recognize<\/p>\n One way of \u00a0introducing the “what” and “how” comes from a\u00a0“pattern language approach” to the science of “naturally occurring systems”, presented in a paper for PURPLSOC:<\/p>\n that I presented at the July 3-5 PURPLSOC<\/strong> pattern language research meeting<\/span><\/a> in Krems Austria. \u00a0It was in a group of papers on pattern language as\u00a0a general science; with papers by\u00a0Helene Finidori<\/strong>, Helmut Leitner,<\/strong>\u00a0Takashi\u00a0Iba Et. All.<\/strong>;\u00a0Christian\u00a0Aspalter &\u00a0Reinhard Bauer<\/strong>. (links to follow)<\/p>\n As an approach to working with natural systems “Guiding Patterns of Naturally Occurring Design: Elements” seems unprecedented in using a fully scientific method for focusing on the “objects of nature”, using a pattern language approach to identify working complex relationships of natural designs, in their natural contexts, with nothing “held equal” or represented with models, a practical way to relate to the “things themselves”, as “known unknowns”.<\/p>\n The key is not<\/em> to avoid data and models. \u00a0It’s not to rely to heavily on them. \u00a0 It’s to just never use\u00a0them to represent<\/span> natural systems<\/em>, but only to help you\u00a0discover why naturally occurring systems and their complex designs are of real interest, and doing things quite different from theory<\/em>. \u00a0 It turns out that Christopher Alexander’s pattern language, as a structured language for discussing holistic solutions,\u00a0as designs for recurrent problems, has now evolved to let it jump from one profession to another. \u00a0 So, if the branches remain connected to the root… it seems to\u00a0make a good foundation for building a new language of science, one that doesn’t replace\u00a0nature with the abstractions of boundless theory.<\/p>\n The paper is a “sampler” of explorations of the topic, including an advanced “starter kit” of methods, terminology and examples, for\u00a0how to\u00a0use the patterns of natural design\u00a0to\u00a0guide efforts at intentional design and\u00a0integrate with our world of natural systems. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>It introduces a way of recognizing natural designs as\u00a0‘objects’\u00a0in nature, with their own\u00a0individual boundaries, allowing separate discussion about what goes on inside and outside, and using pattern language (not abstract models)\u00a0to\u00a0make verifiable sense of it. \u00a0Identifying a boundary is what permits considering what goes in and out, and open up the use a traditional use of terms of physics and economics, for understanding the\u00a0thermodynamics and the coupling between\u00a0energy budgets and financial budgets, etc. for natural systems. \u00a0 Based on that, it would appear to\u00a0make a true\u00a0“object oriented science”<\/em> a practical possibility.<\/p>\n The original paper introducing this from a traditional biophysical scientific point of view, as “Whole Systems Energy Assessment” (5). \u00a0 That paper can perhaps now be understood if interpreted\u00a0from a pattern language viewpoint, as showing that\u00a0shares of GDP measure shares of global impacts of delivering GDP… \u00a0The economic system does appear to work as a whole, and the effort to validate that seems to successfully result in a\u00a0far more accurate, and far more actionable, \u00a0measure the impacts of our choices than efforts to directly trace economic impacts can produce.<\/p>\n For the translation of these and related natural system principles to the language of Alexander’s “pattern language” for defining “object oriented” principles of holistic design see the\u00a02015 “Guiding patterns of naturally occurring design<\/span>” papers \u00a0for PURPLSOC (Pursuit of\u00a0Pattern Language for Societal Change) (Jul 5 2015) (1) and PLoP \u00a0(Pattern Language of Programming)(Oct 23 2015) (2) and related slides and supplementary materials (3). \u00a0 Also in the directory is a YouTube video link to\u00a0the first 15 minutes of the slide\u00a0narration,\u00a0for the July 5 presentation of ‘Elements’, salvaged from a cell phone recording (4).<\/p>\n “Guiding patterns of naturally occurring design”<\/p>\n 1) For PURPLSOC 2015: “Elements<\/a>” \u00a0(final for publication) ___________________<\/p>\n Need to update & add notes and discussion on both\u00a0conferences….<\/p>\n It was really<\/span> <\/em>exciting to be part of, and to watch this new way of thinking emerge, PL as a whole system language for “designs of services<\/span><\/em>” to balance and support JLH \u00a011\/5\/15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …. The distinct\u00a0possibility is that,\u00a0for the first time: Science might soon be able\u00a0to study all the objects of nature, in their innate form not just the models we make based on what data is available… ______________________ In-depth Pattern Language Research “Guiding patterns of naturally occurring design” 1) For PURPLSOC 2015: on “Elements” \u00a0(final for publication) … Continue reading at PURPLSOC, then at PLoP: Pattern Language for Object-Oriented Science<\/span>
\n2) For PLoP 2015: on “Mining living quality<\/a>” (meeting draft)<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Guiding Patterns of\u00a0Naturally Occurring Design: Elements<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n2) For PLoP 2015: “Mining living quality<\/a>” (final for publication)
\n3) Related materials: Resource directory\u00a0<\/a>
\n4) 20 min. YouTube video excerpt<\/a> of the July 5 talk –
\n5) “Whole Systems Energy Assessment (SEA)<\/a>…” part of the physical systems science being translated into PL\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthe traditional view of \u00a0science as a whole system language for “defined controls<\/span><\/em>“<\/p>\n