Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is the author of international bestsellers, such as The Tau of Physics, The Turning Point, Uncommon Wisdom, and The Web of Life. Contents Introduction Emergence of systems thinking Characteristics of systems thinking Classical systems theories The [...] read more
Introduction Mathematics is traditionally done in obscurity and mathematicians go about their business with the realization that hardly any non-specialist is willing to invest the time to grasp the significance of the important ideas and theorems of mathematics. Recently, however, this situation changed when the new mathematical theory referred to as chaos burst on the [...] read more
BIOURBANISM FOR A HUMAN-CENTERED SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Artena (Rome, Italy) – July 21st/28th 2013 summerschool-artena.tumblr.com | summerschool@biourbanism.org After the success of the first interdisciplinary Summer School in Neuroergonomics and Urban Design which gathered fantastic people from 11 Countries into a deeply inspirational experience, this year we are going to focus on place. How can we transform [...] read more
by Antonio Caperna, PhD The aim of this lecture is to describe the basic items of Biourbanism. Keywords: Biourbanism, Complexity, Urban Environment Download or see the Lecture: Academia.edu | read more
Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Trying to measure the complexity of a system is not straightforward. The simplest measure of a system’s complexity reflects not so much its intrinsic complexity, or the complexity of the process that generated it, but the complexity of the system’s description. As such, this [...] read more
Complexity has turned out to be very difficult to define. The dozens of definitions that have been offered all fall short in one respect or another, classifying something as complex which we intuitively would see as simple, or denying an obviously complex phenomenon the label of complexity. Moreover, these definitions are either only applicable to a very restricted domain, such as computer algorithms or genomes, or so vague as to be almost meaningless. read more