Found within the post. A visual tool for organizing the strategy designer's thoughts and giving form to resilience-building strategy until it is picked up by a user and the use changes to organizing their thoughts and actions about implementation. www.gregoryvig.com/p/resilience1
The latest on the blog exploring paper-based tools for building community wildfire risk reduction in support of writing a paper. I wanted to put this out in the world long before any paper will make an appearance. Written and created with the best of intent to help
www.gregoryvig.com/p/resilience1
And we are back! Celebrating my 80th post with my most recent thoughts on time, drawing from Varela and Maturana, following my talk in November of last year on Maturana's time. Here, there is talk of questions, duration, and distinctions with a focus on duration.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/time-part-ii
Still thrilled with these Christmas gifts! Already plenty to read this year.
New peak wind gust at NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, 113 MPH about 20 minutes ago. Stronger than the peak 108 MPH gust two days ago. Like the strongest gust at this station in 10+ years (even stronger than Marshall Fire gusts). #COWX
A fun-to-write post on acting in disorder from the perspective of Morin and Morin and Kern. At the center of the post is poetry and prose, two ways of living, connected individually to order and disorder. It is a literary experiment in connecting two polarities.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/acting1
Interesting and valuable categorization by Fleming. Reading to understand his definition and discussion of resilience which has taken a different direction than I assumed. Its nice to have your assumptions broken. There is some great stuff in here.
I searched "design studies" on LinkedIn this morning and was encouraged by all of the students earning grad. degrees.
It was also an introduction to NC State Uni.'s Ph.D. in Design, which is interesting. Forever interested in @cmu.edu 's Design doctorate, may have to pick this up in the New Year.
Used finds at the bookstore. A gem from 1961. The physics section will be representative of the times and therefore limited, but I am looking forward to the discussion on causality.
Ontological design stems from a seemingly simple observation: that in designing tools (objects, structures, policies, expert systems, discourses, even narratives) we are creating ways of being. A key insight here is what Anne- Marie Willis (2006, 80) has called “the double movement of ontological designing,” namely, that we design our world, and our world designs us back—in short, design designs.
Complexity includes certain principles that help the autonomous spirit to achieve knowledge. Whereas a program destroys the autonomy of the seeker, complexity stimulates an autonomous, responsible strategy." - Edgar Morin
How is that book? It has been on my list for a long time.
When I'm conscious of my own observing, I attempt, but it's easily overwhelming.
To his point above, the section early on where he discusses distinctions and the move from the feeling of separation to connectedness toward the things we distinguish was similarly impactful for me.
"From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition" is an excellent read. I highly recommend it regardless of knowledge of Maturana's work. Pörksen and Maturana have this casual conversation that teaches the reader about some of Maturana's earliest work, onward to his focus on love.
S. Kauffman & A. Roli discuss the same in their latest paper "Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe?" ( arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514 ).
Surprisingly, the paper does not mention Maturana and Varela's circular *Autopoiesis* or Pattee's emergent *Hierarchy Theory*.🤔
autopoiesis for fun and profit
When you have storage space, you will store things you don't need.
Said goodbye to an old friend this weekend. The CamelBak Hotshot, (Possibly the original model?)
Bladder and hose long gone, I'm sure. I had not seen it in years, but it was still a moment to toss it.
Good times with this!
Weekend additions to the bookcase. I was never a fan of Hegel until I came across this book. Exactly what I need at this stage and nothing more. An easier task than trying to read "The Phenomenology of the Mind" to start. Excited for the "Complex World" as I had been interested in it for a while.
Excited that my latest talk at the Complexity Lounge is now on YouTube. Titled "Humberto Maturana’s Time: Living in the Present," this talk explores Maturana's 2 modalities of time. This was a great project with new insights gained into how Maturana understood time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHY...
Impressed by this view no matter how many times I climb this mountain. Of the peaks in town, this is my favorite.
Not pictured: The (partially) planned twilight descent. Fun was had by all.
At Green Mountain, in Boulder, Colorado.
The latest on the blog - Cassette Mixtapes and Complex Systems. Still in the vein of "How do we communicate complexity to others?" Also aligned with general exploration in complex systems concerned with variety and the possibilities it can actualize.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/mixtapes
Francisco Varela: “The only world we humans know is the one we can create together through the actions of our coexistence.”
Was able to borrow this through interlibrary loan, in exactly this shape, while preparing my talk for Maturana's time. A short read, but I do not think I captured it all. Maturana was taught Heidegger by Dreyfus and his writing started to reflect that, beginning in 1988. Worth exploring it seems.
#Audiophile listening room.
Great review, thank you! Looks like I need to read this soon!
Hello! This is on my list. How did you find it? I am really curious about it.
Edgar Morin's "Towards a Study of Humankind Volume 1: The Nature of Nature."
I believe this is the only English translation of Morin's 12 (?) total volumes, unfortunately (very much so).
But we have volume one which is, on the whole, focused on complexity and a great philosophical read.
Good morning, Saturday.
“You think that because you understand ‘One’ that you must therefore understand ‘Two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand ‘and.’
Donella Meadows
"Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation"
Humberto Maturana
Man Looking at Woman, by Adolph Gottlieb #Art