A complexity culture, especially in the design field, has to pass through the dissemination of an aesthetic of complexity too.
Therefore, projects that derive from concepts of complexity, even if just superficially (and so are not complex nor systemic projects) are important for their ability to spread in society an aesthetics of complexity.
Such a project can [...]

Tags: Aesthetics, City, Complexity, Design, Fractals, Spain

Back from Toshare.it, where I saw some interesting projects and met very interesting persons…
From there, I’d like to suggest you a project that shows how design could get inspiration from complexity. This is maybe the first step a designer could take confronting complexity, and therefore projects like this are not only fascinating but also promising [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Complexity, Design, Emergence, Interaction Design, Italy, Movie Design, Realtime, Self-Organization, Swarm / Flock / Crowd

Here is the presentation for the lesson I gave yesterday at Politecnico di Milano, Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale Paesaggi in Corsa (P1 – I1).

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design, Locality, Participation, University

Next week, on 24th October 2007, I’m going to give a lesson at the Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà del Design, where I am a project expert (or assistant professor, if you prefere) in the Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale P1 course.
Right now I’m working on the presentation, and I think it’s going to be a [...]

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design, Locality, University

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Unlike a traditional, linear, design process, Open Peer-to-Peer Design is non-linear and characterized by multiple parallell processes because of the large number of agents and their interactions. An Open Peer-to-Peer design process thus provides the basis for developing more [...]

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Open P2P Communities, Participation, Platform, Self-Organization, Service Design, Social Network Analysis

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Once we define the platform, it is possible to comprehend what, effectively, a designer can design for an Open Peer-to-Peer community. It still remains to define how this project plan can be carried out holding account of the complexity of the [...]

Tags: Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Institutions, Linux, Open P2P Communities

In these days I’m finishing the translation of the second part of the Web 2.0 Business/Services notes; meanwhile, I would like to suggest you the reading of an Italian theoretical text (not a guide but the platform over which one can build a guide) for the design of social network services. I am talking about [...]

Tags: Complexity, Design Methodology, Social Network, Sociology