Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World Volume 2

<b>Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected rapidly changing and radically contingent white water world.</b><p><i>Design Unbound</i> presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century in what the authors characterize as a white water world&#151;rapidly changing hyperconnected and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging and architecture which is about designing contexts. In such a practice design unbound from its material thingness is set free to design contexts as complex systems.</p><p>In a world where causality is systemic entangled in flux and often elusive we cannot design for absolute outcomes. Instead we need to design for emergence. <i>Design Unbound</i> not only makes this case through theory but also presents a set of tools to do so. With case studies that range from a new kind of university to organizational and even societal transformation <i>Design Unbound</i> draws from a vast array of domains: architecture science and technology philosophy cinema music literature and poetry even the military. It is presented in five books bound as two volumes. Different books within the larger system of books will resonate with different reading audiences from architects to people reconceiving higher education to the public policy or defense and intelligence communities. The authors provide different entry points allowing readers to navigate their own pathways through the system of books.</p>