Design as Participation · Journal of Design and Science

This started with a drivetime conversation about contemporary design with Joi Ito. We were stuck in traffic, and in our conversation, a question emerged about designers: This new generation of designers that work with complex adaptive systems. Why are they so much more humble 1 Boris Anthony than their predecessors who designed, you know, stuff? 2 Andrea Botero, Alexander Laskaris The answer is another question, a hypothesis. The hypothesis is that most designers that are deliberately working with complex adaptive systems cannot help but be humbled by them 1 Victor Zambrano . Maybe those who really design systems-interacting-with-systems approach their relationships to said systems with the daunting complexity of influence, rather than the hubris of definition or control 1 joshua kauffman . The designers of complex adaptive systems are not strictly designing systems themselves. They are hinting 1 Jeremy Dean those systems towards anticipated outcomes, from an array of existing interr

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