Research
Kilim is body language
by Hikmet Şırlak How do you calculate the time t, needed to consume one glass of tea, provided the diameter d=4 cm, the height h=8 cm and a parabolic form where f(x)=x² ? Not a maths person? Then set your timer and just drink it. If you think you lack the knowledge to tell the quality […] read more
Conflicts in disqualified urban peripheries, and the lack of a complex vision
by Laura Cipollini I’d like to share my thoughts on some issues that I consider to be fundamental to effectively intervene on topics that can no longer be postponed. About 10 years ago, following my research in Sarajevo, the “Jerusalem of the Balkans”, I decided to use the reflections that emerged from that experience in […] read more
How to save the world according to Edward O. Wilson
by Menno Cramer The rise of Biodiversity Edward O Wilson is an architect according to Rohan Silva, Co-Founder of Secondhome. The Secondhome building who hosted a lecture from the distinguished biologist Edward O. Wilson last 4th November in London is full of fractal geometry, nature, round lines and circular shapes. There are no square […] read more
Urban acupuncture in Brno. P.A.R.K.!
by Jaroslav Biolek We are a community of people, working together under the name of PARK (Pozitivní Akce Re-Kultivace – Positive Action of Re-Cultivation), who are interested in the quality of public space and its use. Our general goal is to support and to develop civic participation which form the public space and may improve the […] read more
Education
Scaling: The surprising mathematics of life and civilization
In late 1995 Mike Simmons, then-SFI vice president, introduced me to Jim Brown. At that time I was overseeing the high energy physics program at Los Alamos National Laboratory while Brown, who had recently moved to the University of New Mexico’s biology department, was developing an ecology program at SFI. Serendipitously we had both been […] read more
Emergence: A unifying theme for 21st century science
When electrons or atoms or individuals or societies interact with one another or their environment, the collective behavior of the whole is different from that of its parts. We call this resulting behavior emergent. Emergence thus refers to collective phenomena or behaviors in complex adaptive systems that are not present in their individual parts. Examples […] read more
David Pines
