center-making process

A process whose steps create and intensify centers, as seen in traditional building and natural growth.

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Center-Making Action
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The continuous process of creating and strengthening living centers as the most essential aspect of unfolding.
Structure-Preserving Transformations
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Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
Centers
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Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
Fundamental process
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The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process

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Chapter 3: Structure-Preserving Transformations In Traditional Society
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The current paper, arguing that life in buildings arises from structure-preserving transformations, as exemplified in traditional societies.
Always Making Centers
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Chapter 10 of The Nature of Order, Vol 2, describing the process of creating living centers through differentiation and the fundamental process.

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Centers are made of centers.claim0.810
The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
Pattern as Rule for Making Centersconcept0.791
The precise reformulation: each pattern is a rule describing a type of strong center needed on a recurring basis and the relations among neighboring centers
To be making centers, our simplest path is to be making symmetries; we always try to get the maximum feeling from the thing as we design it.claim0.786
Centers are the fundamental entities of which the world is made.claim0.786
Ontological claim that centers, not particles or parts, are the building blocks of all phenomena.
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.780
Focus on anything else yields something else.
What exactly is a center?question0.777
The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition.
Parking lot making processmethod0.774
Sequence for creating modest, hidden, and workable parking lots; called by the meadow-making process.
the center is not made from parts. Rather, it would be more true to say that most of the parts are created by the wholeness.quote0.773
Key reversal of the Cartesian parts-to-whole assumption: the whole generates the parts.