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method:question-and-answer-unfolding-sequenceQuestion-and-answer unfolding sequence
A general technique of using ordered questions to guide the design unfolding, ensuring a coherent whole emerges from the client's own visions.
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Concepts (2)
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- Living processimplementsA generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
- UnfoldingimplementsThe step-by-step process through which coherent geometric order emerges from a whole, preserving structure at each step; the fundamental dynamic of all living processes
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 12 of A Vision of a Living World, presenting examples and principles showing how living processes create unique, personal environments.
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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.
- The continuous chain of steps, each preserving and extending the whole, which defines nature and living process.
- Process-based explanation: if parts are designed too early they become modular; correct timing yields uniqueness.
- The process by which patterns are used sequentially in design, combining and recombining to generate living centers
- Claim that design decisions within a living process are not arbitrary but can be objectively correct.
- The step-by-step method of making in which each act is consistent with and extends the existing wholeness; the core mechanism that generates living structure, described in Book 2.
- The gradual, incremental application of transformations that characterizes living process.
- The process by which new centers emerge naturally from existing ones without forcing; the essence of morphogenetic sequences.
- Step-by-step method where each decision preserves the existing structure and deepens harmony.