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** Reminder Today, Wed, Feb 22 **
SPEAKER: Jane Quillien
TITLE: The Nature of Order
LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
TIME: Wed Feb 22, 12:30p
Lunch will be available for purchase
ABSTRACT
In the four volumes of The Nature of Order, Christopher Alexander pursues
nothing less than the nature of life itself. Life, Alexander holds (quite
literally) is an attribute of space and to speak about space is to speak
about geometry. In this Friam talk, the objectives will be limited to
two. The first objective is to provide a helicopter view of the geometric
properties of space according to Alexander. There are 15 - so even a three
minute introduction of each one will take up most of our time. The second
objective is to pose a question for discussion. These 15 properties are
introduced in Volume One where the point of view is static - a given space
at a give moment. Volume two grapples with the unfolding of space over
time. Alexander does not have any sort of general theory for just how these
15 properties might interact in the unfolding. Interestingly, he has never
asked programmers if simulations were a way to explore hunches. So, I'm
asking the Friam Group.
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