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concept:generative-processgenerative process
A process where the whole creates the conditions for the part, following a vital rhythm in which large precedes small.
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Thinkers (1)
thinker
- Christopher Alexanderintroduces
Methods (1)
method
- Colombian House Design SequenceimplementsA structured design process developed with Santa Rosa families allowing each family to lay out their own unique house.
Concepts (1)
concept
- Fundamental processextendsThe core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process
Events (1)
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- Moshav Shorashim, Galilee ProjectimplementsA community of Israeli immigrants built in the Galilee mountains starting around 1982 using an early generative process.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- A set of instructions for making something (contrasted with a descriptive blueprint), as in embryonic development.
- A process that aligns with innate human instincts and wisdom, often enhanced by incorporating the living process principles to become more deeply life-creating.
- Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
- An ordering of patterns and transformations that, when followed, can conjure up a whole geometric world
- Agent's internal probabilistic model of environment; enables belief inference about hidden states given outcomes.
- A system of sequences/rules that can generate well-adapted living plans, potentially implemented on computers to empower ordinary people.
- The idea that social process must become truly architectural—i.e., morphogenetic, form-creating—to generate a living world.
- The principle underlying Linda where processes generate data objects (tuples) that drift into tuple space for other processes to discover and access.