Dissipative Structures, Complexity And Strange Attractors: Keynotes For A New Eco-aesthetics
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
73
Pages
7
Published
2004
Size
598 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/DN040381
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
R. M. Pulselli, G.C. Magnoli, N. Marchettini & E. Tiezzi
Abstract
There is a new branch of science strikingly at variance with the idea of knowledge just ended and deterministic. The complexity we observe in nature makes us aware of the limits of traditional reductive investigative tools and requires new comprehensive approaches to reality. Looking at the non-equilibrium thermodynamics reported by Ilya Prigogine as the key point to understanding the behaviour of living systems, the research on design practices takes into account the lot of dynamics occurring in nature and seeks to imagine living shapes suiting living contexts. When Edgar Morin speaks abo
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