The world today is so complex that it diminishes our understanding of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and supranational regulations that exist all around us and influence our everyday lives.

These are systems-sets of things interconnected in such a way that they produce their own patterns and behaviours over time. Systems Ultra explores how we experience these phenomena, how to understand them more clearly, and, perhaps, how to change them.

In a series of scenarios, Georgina Voss shows us how to parse our complex world, looking at it through five themes-scale, legacy, matter, deviance, and breakage-via contemporary industrial settings of ports, air traffic control, architecture and construction, payment systems in adult entertainment, and car crash testing.

In these human-made systems, what is designed and what emerges? What does it mean for a software-dependent car to break? What does the use of design software tell us about the workplace culture of architects, and therefore the limitations of architecture? What happens to port cities and workers if container ships keep getting bigger? Systems Ultra offers a toolbox for comprehending, and changing, the world.

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Format: Hardcover
Author: Voss, Georgina
ISBN: 9781839760556
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.25
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Year: 2024

Language: English

Systems Ultra: How Things, People, and Ideas Connect in a Complex World

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