Complex Adaptive Systems characteristics
Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Adaptive System characteristics (CAS) are:
- No central control
- Agents are not aware of the whole
- Open network with no boundaries
- Agents self-organize naturally
- Non-linearity
- Small changes can lead to large effects
- Tipping point
- Going viral
- Feedback in the system
- Effect of any activity can feed back onto itself positively or negatively
- Social media Lke buttons are fast feedback loops with limited verification
- Patterns
- An inherent underlying structure within the system
- Hidden order in the system
- Fish swarm, birds flock
- Constraints are systemic conditions that influence behaviour
- An inherent underlying structure within the system
- Emergence
- Is an outcome of the system
- What Systems Thinking does not address
- Properties and behaviours emerge from the interactions of the agents
- Safety is an emergent property of a CAS
- Is an outcome of the system
- Non-reducible holism
- Reductionism doesn't apply in a CAS
- Agents are entangled and cannot be separated out
- Think Mayonnaise, not Lego bricks
Write an article that examines CPTED Second Generation principles through the lens of CAS to gain insights into how environmental design can dynamically influence behavior and contribute to safer communities.
Create a 6x4 table with CAS characteristics as rows and Second Generation CPTED as columns. In each cell enter 2 or 3 bullets how environmental design can influence behaviour and contribute to safer communities.