There is a new branch of science strikingly at variance with the idea of knowledge just ended and deterministic. The complexity we observe in nature makes us aware of the limits of traditional reductive investigative tools and requires new comprehensive approaches to reality. Looking at the non-equilibrium thermodynamics reported by Ilya Prigogine as the key point to understanding the behaviour of living systems, the research on design practices takes into account the lot of dynamics occurring in nature and seeks to imagine living shapes suiting living contexts. When Edgar Morin speaks about the necessity of a method of complexity, considering the evolutive features of living systems, he probably means that a comprehensive method should be based on deep observations and flexible ordering laws. Actually designers and planners are engaged in a research field concerning fascinating theories coming from science and whose playground is made of cities, landscapes and human settlements. So, the concept of a dissipative structure and the theory of space organized by networks provide a new point of view to observe the dynamic behaviours of systems, finally bringing their flowing patterns into the practices of design and architecture. However, while science discovers the fashion of living systems, the question asked is how to develop methods to configure open shapes according to the theory of evolutionary physics. Taking into account the aesthetics of a dynamic nature, is it possible to frame places according to their role in a complex living context? Finally, the issue of this research should be the investigation of those patterns able to improve the cohesions between anthropic and natural systems and to develop harmonious relationships between human settlements and the environment.

Pulselli, R.M., Magnoli, G., Marchettini, N., Tiezzi, E. (2004). Dissipative structures, complexity and strange attractors: keynotes for a new eco-aesthetics. In Design and Nature II - Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering (pp. 381-387). Southampton : Wit Press.

Dissipative structures, complexity and strange attractors: keynotes for a new eco-aesthetics

Marchettini, N.;Tiezzi, E.
2004-01-01

Abstract

There is a new branch of science strikingly at variance with the idea of knowledge just ended and deterministic. The complexity we observe in nature makes us aware of the limits of traditional reductive investigative tools and requires new comprehensive approaches to reality. Looking at the non-equilibrium thermodynamics reported by Ilya Prigogine as the key point to understanding the behaviour of living systems, the research on design practices takes into account the lot of dynamics occurring in nature and seeks to imagine living shapes suiting living contexts. When Edgar Morin speaks about the necessity of a method of complexity, considering the evolutive features of living systems, he probably means that a comprehensive method should be based on deep observations and flexible ordering laws. Actually designers and planners are engaged in a research field concerning fascinating theories coming from science and whose playground is made of cities, landscapes and human settlements. So, the concept of a dissipative structure and the theory of space organized by networks provide a new point of view to observe the dynamic behaviours of systems, finally bringing their flowing patterns into the practices of design and architecture. However, while science discovers the fashion of living systems, the question asked is how to develop methods to configure open shapes according to the theory of evolutionary physics. Taking into account the aesthetics of a dynamic nature, is it possible to frame places according to their role in a complex living context? Finally, the issue of this research should be the investigation of those patterns able to improve the cohesions between anthropic and natural systems and to develop harmonious relationships between human settlements and the environment.
2004
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Pulselli, R.M., Magnoli, G., Marchettini, N., Tiezzi, E. (2004). Dissipative structures, complexity and strange attractors: keynotes for a new eco-aesthetics. In Design and Nature II - Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering (pp. 381-387). Southampton : Wit Press.
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