Ways of Wholeness, Christopher Alexander, and Synergies of Place with David Seamon, Andrea Hiott

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The link to the paper Ways of Understanding Wholeness: Place, Christopher Alexander, and Synergistic Relationality is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02604027.2024.2330288

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Christopher Alexander! Sadly, RIP, but wow..i never expected to see him featured like this. Your curation is absolutely next level. Mad respect, AH. 🙏

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Can’t wait to dig into this.

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Vis a vis practical applications, especially around "wholeness", i wonder if Alexander talked much about its non-stationary aspect -- not just changing subjective views, but time & path dependent evolution as well -- and how Emergence, writ large, might be built into or protected or gestated by virtue of structure....?

[@waymaking23]

Thanks so much for these thoughts and comments. I discussed them with David and here is what he had to say (with his permission to share): "Alexander describes the design process in volume 2 of THE NATURE OF ORDER. Essentially, the method is deceivingly simple: making sure each step in the effort is the best. Of course, knowing what that "best" might be and making it happen is the hugely hard part for which ultimately there are no pat answers. Alexander does offer a good number of practical possibilities for proceeding-e.g., keeping the 15 geometric qualities in mind.​.. In LIFE TAKES PLACE, the process most directly related to emergence is place creation, and much of that discussion is modelled after Alexander's rendition, though I suggest that Hassan Fathy, Paul Krafel, Gordon Brittain also offer potential "models.""

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@@waymaking23 thanks for this AH. A key part of driving/creating emergent structures and processes is the idea of "constraint" (cf. Lichtenstein)... And this notion of "Place" you raise neatly addresses this.

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To skip intro go to 10:30

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11:09 let's start with sworlness?

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😂wholeness

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@@waymaking23 1:02:44 asymmetrical re:conciliation ¬⁊∔ belong anew∔