Post on 09-Feb-2022
Design ScienceDesign Science
Finding ways to organize ourmatter-energy environment tobetter support life…
…By employing generalizedprinciples …
…To transform human life supportsystems in ways that…
…Support all humans and otherliving beings using less materialresources…
…and without underminingEarth’s ecological processes
Ocean Arks International’s
Living Machines.
Whole Systems ThinkingWhole Systems Thinking
Problem solving begins by first considering
Whole Systems
Proceed to examine the parts in relationship to
the whole system (macro-to-micro)
Analysis, the basis for most present day
planning and policy-making, separates out
parts from the whole for study
Analysis does not acknowledge the concept of
synergy
SynergySynergy
The behavior of whole systemsunpredicted by the behavior of theirparts taken separately
Synergy describes the “laws of wholesystems”
Sometimes referred to as “The Scienceof Cooperation”
Principle of Synergetic AdvantagePrinciple of Synergetic Advantage
Definition: “The principle of synergeticadvantage states that macro-to-micro does notequal micro-to-macro. Synergetic advantage isonly to be effected by macro-to-microprocedure. Synergetic advantage proceduresare irreversible. Micro-to-macro procedures areinherently frustrated.”
Buckminster Fuller Synergetics
Principle of SynergeticPrinciple of SynergeticAdvantageAdvantage
There is nothing in chemicalcompounds per se that predictsbiological protoplasm.
There is nothing in the biologicalprotoplasm per se that predictscamels and palm trees and theintercomplementary interexchangeof the waste gases given off by them
There is nothing in the exchange ofthese gases that predicts galaxiesand stars
Whole Systems Coordinate SystemWhole Systems Coordinate System
Whole Systems Framework
x
y
zCartesian Framework
SystemsSystems
““A system is the first subdivision ofA system is the first subdivision of
Universe into a conceivable entityUniverse into a conceivable entity
separating all that is nonsimultaneouslyseparating all that is nonsimultaneously
and geometrically outside the system,and geometrically outside the system,
ergo irrelevant, from all that isergo irrelevant, from all that is
nonsimultaneously and geometricallynonsimultaneously and geometrically
inside and irrelevant to the systeminside and irrelevant to the system””
Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller. SynergeticsSynergetics
PolyhedraPolyhedra
All systems are polyhedra
Polyhedra represent theinventory of Nature’sstructural/energypatterning options
Defined by WholeSystems Framework
Volvox- freshwater
colonial protozoanGeodesic Dome design
by Paul Sun
Polyhedral DesignPolyhedral Design
NatureNature’’s Tensegrity Design Strategys Tensegrity Design Strategy
Scientific American
January 1998
PrecessionPrecession
Precession is the effect ofany moving system uponany other moving system
Precessional effects arealways angular andalways something otherthan 180 degrees; theyare very likely to be 90degrees or 60 degrees
Pollination is aprecessionalphenomenon
It is aninadvertent,unconscious90-degree “by-product” ofthe honeybee’sinstinctualurge to collecthoney
PrecessionPrecession
TensegrityTensegrity
Tensional Integrity
Structures emphasizetension and de-emphasizecompression
A Tensegrity system is a setof discontinuouscompressive componentsinteracting with a set ofcontinuous tensilecomponents to define astable volume in space
EphemeralizationEphemeralization
In a finite worldwith limitedresources…
…the key tosustainability…
…isunderstandinghow to do MOREWITH LESS