Systems view of life đ
âWhen a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.â
âIlya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
âWhen a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher orderâ
â Ilya Prigogine
â Ilya Prigogine
Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
Balance being on the Balcony (seeing the system out there) and the Dancefloor (being the system)
Complex systems are inherently dynamic and unpredictable, their properties are emergent. An organic way to deal with emergence is the art to trust in having the right tools and techniques to adaptively cope with sudden surprises and challenges, if accepted as such.
-Systemic Design
... See more"Key to the ETH DRRS learning system is the notion of organic
Panarchy of Adaptive Cycles, adapted and expanded from Gunderson & Holling (2001)