A quick presentation about applications of complexity thinking in creativity and collaboration for the December 2009 Research Club brunch. I cover the broad ideas of complex systems design, applications within projects, and the opportunity for collaboration. For more information on these ideas and the project PDX I Love You check out www.whichlight.com

1. Complexity & Creativity
Kawandeep Virdee

2. If we study the way
things interact,
we can design a
better world

3. Oxford CABDyN
Complexity Centre PSU Systems Science
Department
UMD Institute for
Systems Research
NE Center for
MIT Center for Complex Network
Collective Intelligence Research
Many people believe this
University of Michigan Center Santa Fe Institute
for the Study of Complex
Systems
Center for Complex
New England Complex Systems Research. Univ.
Illinois at Urbana-
Systems Institute Champaign

4. Ideas
Projects
Things we can do
together

5. complexity
?

6. complexity
adaptation
interaction
emergence

9. On a day to day basis, many of
our actions are the same

10. On a day to day basis, many of
our actions are the same
Word Preference
Where we go
We function in cycles and routine

11. On a day to day basis, many of
our actions are the same
Word Preference
Where we go
We function in cycles and routine
We are beings of pattern

12. how can we design
interaction
to have beneficial
emergence

13. Nature's Design Tips
abundant and
explorative (playful)
bottom-up (evolution)

14. Ideas
Projects
Things we can do
together

15. PDX I Love You
cover this city in hearts

16. We could put the hearts up
around the city ourselves

17. Or we could inspire people
and provide the materials

18. HEXAGON
Non-hierarchal collaborative
music performance

19. playing with emergence
Scripts: loose rules on what
or how to play
Emergence: resulting
performance following the
scripts and playing off each
other

20. Ideas
Projects
Things we can do
together

21. Share Ideas & Projects
Creation from “growing”
Designing for collaboration
Making and playing games
Creative Social Projects
Collaborate over the web
Play with these concepts

22. What I can offer
I will be researching at NECSI in
Boston – intellectual hub
Agent Modeling of Social Systems
Artistic, Musical, and Mathematical
expertise

23. Thanks
Looking forward to
connect
@kawantum
www.whichlight.com
whichlight@gmail.com