See: Design Unbound. Designing for Emergence in a White Water World Vol 1 and 2.
- Design Unbound Designing for Emergence (Volume 1) Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian, JSB (2018)
- Design Unbound Ecologies of Change (Volume 2) Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian, JSB (2018)
Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the world today, which we characterize as a white water world – one that is rapidly changing, hyperconnected and radically contingent. The tools presented are not the tools of a coder or a carpenter but tools that are directly associated with a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science and architecture.
Complexity science gives us a new lens through which to view the world as one that is entangled and emerging. It gives us new concepts and tools.
Architecture is about designing contexts in which things happen. From a room, a house, a complex ensemble of buildings, cities, landscapes, and territorial systems of occupation, it takes only one more level of abstraction to imagine design, unbound from its material thingness and from its disciplinary boundaries, set free to work both in and on contexts from a complex systems perspective. Learn more >>