European Conference on Complex Systems Satellite
Workshop:
Embracing Complexity in Design,
About the workshop
This workshop is organized as part of the
activities of a
The aim of the workshop is to link
together the design community and the complexity community and report the state
of the art in research which exploits and encourages this cross-fertilization.
Members of the design community are increasingly coming to understand the
importance of complexity theory, while members of the complexity community are
increasingly coming to understand that the challenges facing design researchers
offer rich opportunities to both apply and advance complexity science.
The hypothesis of the cluster is that complexity
exists across every aspect of design, including:
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many
designed products and systems are
inherently complex, e.g. aeroplanes, buildings,
cities, microchips, information systems, manufacturers, organisations.
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the
social and economic context of design
is complex, embracing market economics, legal regulation, social trends, mass
culture, fashion, diffusion of innovation and much more.
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the process of designing can involve complex
social dynamics, with many people processing and exchanging complex
heterogeneous information over complex human and communication networks, in the
context of many changing constraints
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designers need to understand the often complex dynamic processes used to
fabricate and manufacture products and systems: design, products and processes co-evolve.
The workshop invites papers that report
research on a variety of complexity-design dependencies in both directions: the
design of complex systems or
the complexity of design.
The following is an indicative list of
themes:
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Complexity-theoretic
abstractions for modelling design processes, artifacts and environments.
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Complexity
measurements of design artifacts, processes, environments
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The
complexity paradigm in design theories and methods
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Complexity
methods and computational tools for design professionals and teams
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Complexity
problems in design
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Designing
complexity, designing complex adaptive systems, design for emergence etc
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Designing
in complex environments
Programme
2:00-3:00 Introduction and Plenary Session chair Theodore Zamenopoulos
Introduction by Jeffrey Johnson
Measuring complexity in a design
environment
A. Thomson, B. Kumar, S. Chase and A. Duffy
Systematic measurement of perceptual
design qualities
M. Bittermann and O. Ciftcioglu
Multidimensional multilevel networks
in the science of the design of complex systems
J. Johnson
3:00 3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Plenary Session - chair Katerina Alexiou
Designing in the real world is
complex anyway - so what? Systemic and evolutionary process models in design
W. Jonas
Developing an integrated model
of designing to aid understanding of the complexity paradigm in design practice
R. Young
Design - Complex definitions
N. Teymur
4:30-5:15 Break and poster viewing
5:15-6:35 Plenary Session - chair Jeffrey Johnson
Assessing the impact of product
complexity on organizational design in open source software: findings and
future work
M. den Besten and J-M. Dalle
The representation of common ground
and its role in P2P-supported design team processes
M. Cumming and E. Akar
Unpleasant surprises in the design
of complex products: why do changes propagate?
O. O. Ariyo, C. M. Eckert and P. J. Clarkson
Linking design and complexity:
a review
T. Zamenopoulos and K. Alexiou
Participation to the workshop is free for those registered
in the conference, for information visit http://complexsystems.lri.fr/.
For any questions email a.alexiou@ucl.ac.uk.
Important
dates
18 September deadline for submission of long
abstract
26 September deadline for acceptance decisions
30 September
deadline for registration at the Conference at special discount price
17 October deadline for paper submission
31 October
deadline for registration at the Conference
Co-chairs
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Jeffrey Johnson Professor of Complexity
Science and Design The Open University MK17 8QH Email: j.h.johnson@open.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1908 652627 |
Katerina Alexiou UCL Email: a.alexiou@ucl.ac.uk Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7679 5901 |
Theodore Zamenopoulos UCL Email: t.zamenopoulos@ucl.ac.uk Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7679 5901 |
Programme committee
Michael Batty, Centre for
Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
Scott Chase,
Chris Earl, The Open University
Claudia Eckert,
Hilary Johnson,
Bimal Kumar,
Janet McDonnell,
Eve Mitleton-Kelly,
LSE
Shengfeng Qin,
George Rzevski,
Phil Steadman, UCL
Avril Thomson,