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

You can’t force people to follow directions they deem arbitrary.

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A desire line is a path developed by erosion caused by animal and/or human footfall. The path usually represents the shortest and/or most easilly navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and amount of erosion of the line represents the amount of [...]

Tags: Complex Systems, Design, Flows, Locality, Self-Organization, Swarm / Flock / Crowd

People Make Places

People Make Places, Melissa Mean, Charlie Tims, Demos, London (2005), (pdf file, in english)

Based on in-depth studies of three British towns and cities Cardiff, Preston and Swindon, People Make Places explores how the best public spaces are created by people and communities themselves. The book sets out the forms of governance, design principles [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, City, City Planning, Co-Creation, Community, Emergence, Institutions, Local Services, Locality, Participation, Self-Organization, UK

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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