Designing Complexity

Author : Birger Sevaldson
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781863352628

Get Book

Designing Complexity: The Methodology and Practice of Systems Oriented Design by Birger Sevaldson Pdf

This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: How can we design for, with, and in service of the complex world we live in? How can we be useful as designers in a rapidly changing world due to technological, political, and social processes, as well as climate change and nature destruction? Designers have some beneficial skills for planning with complex systems in mind, yet some old habits need to be overcome. Design's traditional purpose and role has been to solve problems, find order, organize, and simplify. Yet, the concept of designing complexity goes against these established beliefs because complexity cannot be designed away. So, instead, we present ways to live with, influence, and benefit from complex systems. There is no one "right" way presented in this book. Instead, many experiences, approaches, and perspectives are collected and presented. The process this book offers is a methodology called Systems Oriented Design (SOD). SOD is a design methodology and practice primarily geared toward understanding and working with complex systems. Several systems theories influence it, yet it remains true to its origin, the core of designing. SOD is a living and adaptable methodology. Though it is based on design thinking and design methodology, it is easily adapted and applied by anybody working with complex change processes.

Author : Birger Sevaldson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Complexity (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0949313610

Get Book

Designing Complexity by Birger Sevaldson Pdf

This book is a complete description of the background, theories, practice and methodology of Systems oriented Design (SOD). Since 2006 the author has been in the forefront of developing a new generation of systems thinking in design. He took initiative to the RSD conferences and the SDA network and the definition of the pluralistic emerging field of systemic design. SOD is one of the major directions in the field of systemic design. The book is the result of 15 years with design research and development for a growing community and increasing attention to systemic design. Systemic design is today the most comprehensive and powerful approach to help making design become better at coping with the increasingly complex challenges that we face in our society. The book is essential in helping designers to make the change to become more useful and able in the future.

Author : Darjan Hil,Nicole Lachenmeier
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035625066

Get Book

Visualizing Complexity by Darjan Hil,Nicole Lachenmeier Pdf

How can you turn dry statistics into attractive and informative graphs? How can you present complex data sets in an easily understandable way? How can you create narrative diagrams from unstructured data? This handbook of information design answers these questions. Nicole Lachenmeier and Darjan Hil condense their extensive professional experience into an illustrated guide that offers a modular design system comprised of 80 elements. Their systematic design methodology makes it possible for anyone to visualize complex data attractively and using different perspectives. At the intersection of design, journalism, communication and data science, Visualizing Complexity opens up new ways of working with abstract data and invites readers to try their hands at information design.

Author : Katerina Alexiou,Jeffrey Johnson,Theodore Zamenopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135228781

Get Book

Embracing Complexity in Design by Katerina Alexiou,Jeffrey Johnson,Theodore Zamenopoulos Pdf

Collating state-of-the-art developments in the area of complexity and design into a unique and authoritative resource for both the design and complex systems communities, this book is essential reading for those studying complexity or design, as it touches on different themes and domains such as architecture, engineering, environmental design, art, fashion and management.

Author : Satu Miettinen,Melanie Sarantou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429663345

Get Book

Managing Complexity and Creating Innovation through Design by Satu Miettinen,Melanie Sarantou Pdf

Coping with complexities is an everyday reality for private, public and third sectors that face intricate, overlapping, obscuring and ever-changing challenges. Developments in technology and systems of value creation are driving a new need to understand, facilitate and manage complexity. The book proposes design and design research as a solution to respond to the complexities associated with the intensifying and rapid changes in societies, technological fields and environments. A four-step design process for managing complexities is introduced in the four parts of this book, spanning from design research in the field to practice-based contexts. This publication collates high-level research and the latest scholarship on this topic, while many of the case studies described herein draw on rich experiences and applications in practice. The ways designers work to overcome complexities through design, and the methods and frameworks presented in the chapters, provide critical insights and form an important scholarly contribution in this subject area.

Author : Peter Jones,Kristel van Ael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9063696345

Get Book

Design Journeys Through Complex Systems by Peter Jones,Kristel van Ael Pdf

Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in collaborative design to address complex societal systems. Systemic design uses systems thinking and service design to address large-scale societal contexts and complex socio-technical systems. These are contexts characterized by social and technological complexity, high uncertainty, and often problematic outcomes. Using a tour guide metaphor, the book trains people's mindsets and provides tools for dealing with hyper complexity, to enable understanding of systemic problems, and to build capacity to collaborate in teams to produce action proposals.

Author : Tom Inns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781351964722

Get Book

Designing for the 21st Century by Tom Inns Pdf

As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often global in nature. Customers, users and stakeholders are no longer passive recipients of design, expectations are higher, and increased participation is often essential. This book explores these issues through the work of 21 research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets of future design activity as part of the UK's research council supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each of these 21 contributions describes the context of enquiry, the journey taken by the research team and key insights generated through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns, provides an introductory chapter that suggests ways that the reader might navigate these different viewpoints.

Author : Maik Maurer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783662534489

Get Book

Complexity Management in Engineering Design – a Primer by Maik Maurer Pdf

The treatise supports understanding the phenomena of complexity in engineering, distinguishes complexity from other challenges and presents an overview of definitions and applied approaches.The historical background of complexity management is explained by highlighting the important epochs, their key actors and their discoveries, findings and developments. Knowing about the appearance of early system awareness in ancient Greece, the creation of mechanical philosophy in the 17th century and the discovery of classic physics enables the reader to better comprehend modern system sciences and management approaches.A classification of complexity management approaches by research fields indicates current focus areas and starting points for future discussions. In a comprehensive map, the classification points out mutual overlaps between engineering disciplines in terms of similar complexity management approaches.Finally, the treatise introduces a generic complexity management framework, which is based on structural management approaches.

Author : John Ousterhout
Publisher : Yaknyam Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732102201

Get Book

A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout Pdf

Author : Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0123859158

Get Book

Systems Thinking by Jamshid Gharajedaghi Pdf

In a global market economy, a viable business cannot be locked into a single form or function anymore. Rather, success is contingent upon a self-renewing capacity to spontaneously create structures, functions, and processes responsive to a fluctuating business landscape. Now in its third edition, Systems Thinking synthesizes systems theory and interactive design, providing an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. The current edition has been updated to include all new chapters on self-organizing systems, Holistic, Operational, and Design thinking. Gharajedaghi covers recent crises in financial systems and job markets, the housing bubble, and environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking. A companion website to accompany the book is available at www.interactdesign.com. Four NEW chapters on self-organizing systems, holistic thinking, operational thinking, and design thinking Covers the recent crises in financial systems and job markets globally, the housing bubble, and the environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking Companion website to accompany the book is available at interactdesign.com

Author : Michael J. Albers,Mary Beth Mazur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135637514

Get Book

Content and Complexity by Michael J. Albers,Mary Beth Mazur Pdf

This volume explores the issue of content in the design and presentation of information in technical communication contexts. It is intended for technical commmunication & info design scholars, students, and practitioners.

Author : Octavian Iordache
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642106545

Get Book

Polystochastic Models for Complexity by Octavian Iordache Pdf

Complexity understanding and management will be a main source of efficiency and prosperity for the next decades and thus is of highest industrial and scientific interest. This book on the latest in polystochastic models for complexity includes case studies.

Author : Victor Galaz
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788115421

Get Book

Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity by Victor Galaz Pdf

There is an increased interest in integrating insights from the complexity sciences to studies of governance and policy. While the issue has been debated, and the term of ‘complexity’ has multiple and sometimes contested interpretations, it is also clear the field has spurred a number of interesting theoretical and empirical efforts. The book includes key thinkers in the field, elaborates on different analytical approaches in studying governance, institutions and policy in the face of complexity, and showcases empirical applications and insights.

Author : G. Rzevski,P. Skobelev
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781845649364

Get Book

Managing Complexity by G. Rzevski,P. Skobelev Pdf

Managing Complexity is the first book that clearly defines the concept of Complexity, explains how Complexity can be measured and tuned, and describes the seven key features of Complex Systems: ConnectivityAutonomyEmergencyNonequilibriumNon-linearitySelf-organisationCo-evolution The thesis of the book is that complexity of the environment in which we work and live offers new opportunities and that the best strategy for surviving and prospering under conditions of complexity is to develop adaptability to perpetually changing conditions. An effective method for designing adaptability into business processes using multi-agent technology is presented and illustrated by several extensive examples, including adaptive, real-time scheduling of taxis, see-going tankers, road transport, supply chains, railway trains, production processes and swarms of small space satellites. Additional case studies include adaptive servicing of the International Space Station; adaptive processing of design changes of large structures such as wings of the largest airliner in the world; dynamic data mining, knowledge discovery and distributed semantic processing. Finally, the book provides a foretaste of the next generation of complex issues, notably, The Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Digital Enterprises and Smart Logistics.

Author : Espinosa Angela,Walker Jon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786342058

Get Book

Complexity Approach To Sustainability, A: Theory And Application (Second Edition) by Espinosa Angela,Walker Jon Pdf

Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great importance in modern-day socio-economic study. Despite this, the impact of recent contributions from systems and complexity sciences in addressing these issues has not yet filtered down into effective practice. This book argues that there is a need for urgency in the application of analytical tools which embody the principles of complexity management in sustainability research, in particular in the context of the global climate change. The approach presented is based on the concept of clusters of whole systems coming together through collaboration, in order to create larger wholes capable of dealing with the issues facing our socio-economic environmental systems. In this updated second edition, the authors further clarify the viability and sustainability (V&S) approach, and the criteria and framework needed for sustainable governance. It includes a more detailed perspective on the implications of the V&S approach to businesses and networks towards changes in structure, strategy and processes, inspired by specific case studies. Key additions include a criteria for designing more viable and sustainable self-governed organizations, the methodologies and tools to design and implement self-transformations towards sustainability, and how these tools support sustainability management individually and globally, for businesses and society.