Day 16: Another Distillation
On Day 5 and Day 8, you worked on pages of a systems zine, and as you might have guessed, there's more to do.
Today, we will return to the idea of creating a page (or two) of a zine. Look back at your overview page (from Day 5) and pick a topic, but if you'd like a suggestion:
- if you haven't done a page on Relationships and Interactions, this is a good opportunity to gather up and distill ideas from the last several days.
- otherwise I'll suggest a focus on Constraints.
"Constraints sculpt a rugged and multidimensional landscape, the possibility and probability space of what can happen at all, what will most likely happen, and, when it cannot, can or must happen."
— Alicia Juarrero, Context Changes Everything, 2023
"Context-sensitive constraints [..] synchronize and correlate previously independent parts into a systemic whole" — Alicia Juarrero, Dynamics in Action, 2000
"Complexity formation therefore requires more than just a gradient; to evolve more complex dynamics, matter and energy must be coordinated and organized into coherent patterns [..] Coordination harnesses gradients by capturing energy and converting it into persistent structure and order [..] Collier’s 3rd prerequisite, interactions, can also be subsumed under the general idea of constraint [..] Constrained interactions leave a mark. They transform disparate manys into coherent interdependent Ones"
— Alicia Juarrero, Context Changes Everything, 2023