Designing with Evolving Systems

Author: Broadbent J.¹

Source: World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, Volume 59, Number 8, December 2003 , pp. 631-637(7)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article suggests that it may be timely to action the relationship between design and evolution. While this view is not particularly new, the form of its expression here may be. It is noted that the exponential (possibly double exponential) rate of technological change, and the merging of the technological evolutionary lineage with those of biology, cognition, and socioculture is causing greatly accelerated evolution in these latter lineages. So rapid are these change processes that the attendant evolutionary time frames are becoming consonant with those of human design activities. Implications of these developments are outlined.

Keywords: Design, conscious evolution, merged evolution, evo

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Technology, Sydney

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