Thursday, June 24, 2010

Maysam Ghaffari - Self-organization








Super model city offer an alternative approach to rethinking about cities, how they are formed and how they function. It is an integrated whole system which can exchange energy, matter and information. They are self organize and can evaluate themselves and learn from its experiences in order to develop a better conceptualization of organizational life.

In this context, city is defined as interwoven layers of communication and coordination between micro and macro level. Energy and information flow among the different elements and develop a number of dynamic processes which affect the cities’ organizational behavior. This system involves inputs, processing and outputs of energy and information which leads to the further development of self-organization.

Designing a city begins with investigation of certain question in individual relationship between components and data structure. This dynamic network structure deals with the production, distribution and consumption of data in a particular system. This interwoven data structure helps us to understand and analyze the city behavioral patterns both quantitatively and qualitatively for prediction of future behavior.

1 comment:

  1. hi,
    very very impressed these works,
    i'm preparing a master's thesis about self controlled city ideas and associative design, and i would like to give reference as a precedent work at urbanism,
    but couldn't find further information about the process, and couldn't find a contact info..
    i suppose that this is a blog for a project in gsapp, if anybody is taking comments as e-mail, i'd be so glad if you contact with me..
    thanks
    gizem

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