Pattern language is not for wicked problems, said Max Jacobson, coauthor with Christopher Alexander of the 1977 A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction. In addition, the conventional definition of an Alexandrian pattern as “a solution to a problem in context” when applied to social change might better use the term “intervention”, rather than “solution”.
These are two of the major ideas that emerged at Purplsoc 2017 conference last October. A 90-minute workshop was run in parallel with other breakouts.
For about the first hour, vocal participants included Max Jacobson (who had given a plenary talk on “A Building is not a Turkish Carpet“), Christian Kohls (who gave a plenary talk on “Patterns for Creative Space“) and Peter Baumgarnter (one of the Purlpsoc chairs).
As an impetus to discussion, we stepped through slides that had been posted on the Coevolving Commons.
For people who would like the next-best experience to being there, the slides have now been matched up with the digital audio recording, for viewing as a web video.
For devices decoupled from the Internet, downloadable video files are portable.
| Video | H.264 MP4 | WebM |
| Digital video (1h22m51s) |
[20171021_Purplsoc_Ing_Exploring HD_578kpbs m4v] (HD 578Kbps 342MB) [on the Internet Archive] [20171021_Purplsoc_Ing_Exploring nHD_477kpbs m4v] (nHD 495Kkps 283MB) |
[20171021_Purplsoc_Ing_Exploring HD_416kpbs webm] (HD 416Kbps 246MB) [20171021_Purplsoc_Ing_Exploring nHD_191kpbs webm] (nHD 191Kbps 114MB) |
The length of the conversation may encourage listeners to download an audio recording.
| Audio | |||
| Digital audio (1h22m51s) |
[20171021_0930_Purplsoc_Ing ExploringTheContext mp3] (76MB) | ||
In producing the multimedia, a digest of timecodes highlights some interesting conversation points.… Read more (in a new tab)
