Reframing
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means
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Daniel Christian Wahl • Emergence and Design
The designers of complex adaptive systems are not strictly designing systems themselves. They are hinting those systems towards anticipated outcomes, from an array of existing interrelated systems. These are designers that do not understand themselves to be in the center of the system. Rather, they understand themselves to be participants, shaping
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Kevin Slavin • Design as Participation
this idea of participation
(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists.
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idea of relationality
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
Network Leadership Principle: Hold dynamic tensions.
Dynamic tensions: "dynamic because they are always in flux, tensions to signify a relationship between ideas or qualities with seemingly conflicting demands or implications.” 62-71. David Erlichman Impact Networks 2021
usually the way I say it is Simplicity complexity and then clarity so in other words if we think about just the way things happen you take simple things and simple things over time evolve into complex things and you end up with these arms races that look like they're going to go on forever because what is an end of an... See more