Complex Systems, Dynamics & Design

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Complex Systems, Dynamics Design
KEY NOTE

• Professor Jeffrey Johnson,
• Principal Investigator ECiD2 Research Cluster.
  

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Complexity, Dynamics Design

• designed systems can be complex

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Complexity, Dynamics Design

• designed systems can be complex
• design processes can be complex

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Complexity, Dynamics Design

• designed systems can be complex
• design processes can be complex
• design environment can be complex

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Complexity, Dynamics Design

• designed systems can be complex
• design processes can be complex
• design environment can be complex
• design - a complex cognitive social process

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Complexity, Dynamics Design

• Design involves assembles parts into wholes
• predicting the behaviour of the
  whole

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Complexity, Dynamics Design

• Design involves assembles parts into wholes
• predicting the behaviour of the
  whole
• ?dynamics

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience
• Halleys Comet

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience
• Halleys Comet
• Newtons Laws a triumph for science

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience
• Predictive science for engineering design

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience
• Some systems point prediction impossible

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience
• How can the dynamics be designed controlled?

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Complexity Dynamics

• Traditional Science Cassandra
• prediction prescience
• Dynamics and prediction in design ?
• Science versus pre-science just knowing
• How can the dynamics be designed controlled?

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Complexity Dynamics
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Complexity Dynamics

• Complex Systems Prediction
• Dynamics emerge from interactions of
• many heterogeneous parts at many levels
• Trial and error not an option
• Must understand transitions

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Complexity Dynamics

• Complex Systems Prediction

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Complexity Dynamics

• Complex Systems Prediction

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Complexity Dynamics

• Complex Systems Prediction

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Complexity Dynamics

• Design as the Lab of Complex Systems
• map
  out possible
• 
  futures from data
• 
  make a change ?
• 
  create artificial system
• 
  observe what happens
• Experiments not replicable

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Complexity Dynamics

• Designing Complex Systems
• only politicians have the mandate the money

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Complexity Dynamics

• Designing Complex Systems
• only politicians have the mandate the money
• Complex Systems Scientists need to work with
  policy makers

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Complexity Dynamics

• Designing Complex Systems
• only politicians have the mandate the money
• Complex Systems Scientists need to work with
  policy makers
• But they know nothing of design as process

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Complexity Dynamics

• Designing Complex Systems
• only politicians have the mandate the money
• Complex Systems Scientists need to work with
  policy makers
• CS Scientists need to know about design
• together we are designing the future