Saturday 11 August 2012

Act 3 - Scene 1 - Tutorial - Sustainability Patterns

PATTERNS



The lecture highlighted the application of patterns to a multitude of areas, in keeping with the theories of Christopher Alexanders A Pattern Language.  This is a guide book that I like to flick through when brainstorming about design strategies, it is almost like a thesaurus for designers.  Our tutorial groups really struggled with the concept of creating our own sustainability patterns.  I feel these are quite difficult to come up with specifically without empirical knowledge of the area, and we tended to generalise.



(Own image - Exploration of Sustainable Patterns)
 

Need to be more specific, Christopher Alexander does it better: see below extracts from A Pattern Language

 
 

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