L10 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Explain time and non-linearity
Time progresses linearly, but developments IN TIME can be non-linear.
We moved from Parmenides (nothing changes) to Heraclitus (continuous flow / world is changing). Explain this.
From looking at objects and understanding what they are, we now see a world where we see patterns. The more patterns we see (structure function align perfectly) we drift towards them. Patterns are stability. The more fuzzy things get the more we tend towards a stable setting. We work on making things stable.
Explain how Class IV system overrules the other three from a system theoretical perspective.
The three systems (closed, semi open and open) can all be seen as three snapshots in time. They assume developments in time progress linearly and don’t include time. It’s static. Class IV does include time.
Explain the constraining, enabling factors and bifurcations with slide 13
Constraining factors are factors that hinder a transition from happening. Enabling factors ‘enable’ and give circumstances in which the transition CAN happen. Bifurcation = the moment in time things can go various directions e.g. ‘Peat is done so it changed and enabled us in finding oil. constraining factor: no infrastructure for this type of energy yet.
Explain transitions/transformative change
A stable context completely changes/transforms into something else. This happens when structure and function align and completely change together. E.g. mobile phones: non-linearly this changed as a pattern in time.
Explain the Butterfly Effect. With the use of an example.
how small and insignificant change in a complex system in one place could result in large differences somewhere else or at a later stage, with results that are virtually impossible to predict.
In the movie she makes very small adjustments everytime, these each time lead to different outcomes.
What is adaptive planning?
Adaptive planning can be seen as the institutional and organizational response to autonomous and spontaneous change. It is about how to relate to these changes and how such changes can be influenced. Adaptive planning is therefore meant to enable adaptive behavior in the daily environment.
Explain adaptivity with a roundabout example
In a roundabout we all individually negotiate whether we should go or not. It’s a spectrum between Order and Chaos
Explain spectrum B about conditioning the possibility to change. Include an example in your answer.
the spectrum is between a rationali8ty of being able to let go and a rationality of self-responsibility. We are in control here (just like with the normal spectrum), but allow space to change.
Example: room for the river: redefining the dikes. Allowing river to go various ways. Ecology. Area is redefined. Change is allowed to take place it’s fine
Explain spectrum C about acting in response to change. Include an example in your answer.
Planning is reactive. It has to respond to change. Slow change. So anticipating rationality on one side and rationality of adaptive learning on the other side. Examples:
Anticipating rationality: anticipating heavy rains, climate change. Whole situation will not flood but water will be quickly removed.
Rationality of adaptive learning: school that wants to create public space within the school to control the climate. Reach agreement over what kind of climate is worth going for.
Explain spectrum D about the need for a capacity to change. Include an example in your answer.
This is adaptivity to fast change. Responsive rationality is about the capacity to respond. Keep on learning and evaluating after an earth quake for example.
Transformative rationality is about spontaneous, autonomous change that planners have overlooked. Unpleasant street numerous empty shops were claimed back by coffee bars. Fruit shops alternative things. Healthy / able to work there. This just happened. This was a transition we did not see coming. It asks us planners to respond in an adaptive way.
What is the difference between spectra A and B and C / D?
A/B: Planning is leading. Space adapts, Planning is adaptive
C/D: planning is reactive: planning has to adapt because of changes happening in space. Reality shows adaptive behaviour.
What do all the spectra have in common?
That there is a factual reality and an agreed reality
What is fast transformation according to complexity and planning and how does it lead to bifurcation?
The constant factors change, so that the development of a system could go in an unexpectedly different direction. Small deviations at beginning can then lead to far reaching consequences in the long term (bifurcation)
