100406 - informal

My notes from the Cecil Balmond reading:

Informal

The informal contains the unexpected or surprising.

Order is not necessarily hierarchical.

Answers begin at the local level, not the level of the generic whole.  Work proceeds outward toward a result.

Solutions stem from simple initial decisions.

Innovation, resisting the expected, requires risk.

Hybrid = one action overlapping another.

There is a difference between ambiguity and confusion.

The Chemnitz Solution

Solutions do not come from a picture of the outcome, but an analysis of the data, constraints or local conditions.

Solutions evolve and are calibrated by performance criteria.

Pose open questions rather than proposing closed answers.

A single design principle can be operative at multiple scales.

Rules that prescribe a simple set of operations can be calibrated to yield complex, unexpected results.

“Seemingly random but structured patterns strike a resonance within us, for our ‘internalisations’ may be built on similar ideas.” (p. 171)

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