| No Central Control | Encourage informal social gatherings | Facilitate resident-led groups to maintain wellness in neighbourhood | Provide spaces for spontaneous interactions | Encourage citizens to self-organize and celebrate culture holidays |
| Non-Linearity | Observe influencers like memes that bind generations | Detect weak signals of density and land usage “going viral” | Be flexible to handle connections that grow exponentially | Cultivate positive tipping points through art, sensual exhibits |
| Feedback Loops | Offer easy access feedback tools like forums or kiosks | Monitor consequences like resistance to adapt constraints | Use distributed ethnography to collect experiences online and anecdote circles | Amplify cultural pride via local festivals, art work |
| Patterns | Incorporate natural patterns like walkability, ‘15 minute circle’ | Design mixed-use spaces to support self-organization and organic movement | Use SenseMaker® to discover hidden behaviour patterns | Visualize identity with aesthetics, semiotics |
| Emergence | Resolve conflict by enabling ‘3rd Alternative’ to emerge | Conduct safe-to-fail experiments to manage emerging consequences | Offer ‘coffee house’ space to enable new ideas to emerge (abductive thinking) | Hold mixed culture events to enable fusion to emerge |
| Irreducibility | Integrate physical and social spaces like ‘No car’ zone or day | Respect diverse, entangled perspectives as part of the community fabric | Link system conditions to external networks & other CAS in a Human Sensor Network | Weave tapestry of community history through generational storytelling exhibits |