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Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos

Follow along with the course eBook: https://systemsinnovation.io/books/ Take the full course: https://systemsinnovation.io/courses/ Twitter: http://bit.ly/2JuNmXX LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2YCP2U6 For many centuries the idea prevailed that if a system was governed by simple rules that were deterministic then with sufficient information and computation power we would be able to fully describe and predict its future trajectory, the revolution of chaos theory in the latter half of the 20th century put an end to this assumption showing how simple rules could, in fact, lead to complex behavior.

Giant Ant Hill Excavated

From: Ants! Natures Secret Power A giant ant colony is pumped full of concrete, then excavated to reveal the complexity of its inner structure.

Waddington I

In this short animation we take the original idea of the 'epigenetic landscape' by CH Waddington and put it into motion, as he probably conceived it in his mind. Waddington saw cells as pebbles rolling down a mountain with hills and valleys. The bottom of the valleys represents cell or differentiation states.

The Pattern in Nature's Networks

Science shows it's a small world after all-and nature's networks follow a similar pattern. NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/novapbs Follow Mark Zastrow on Twitter: @MarkZastrow PRODUCTION CREDITS Writer, Producer, and Narrator Mark Zastrow Music by Mark Zastrow Editorial Help from Anna Rothschild Original Footage © WGBH Educational Foundation 2014 MEDIA CREDITS Mississippi River watershed National Park Service Diffusion tensor images Human Connectome Project, NIH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Meredith Reid (University of Alabama--Birmingham) Neurons, In Vitro Color!

The Logic of Life: Racial segregation

The Logic of Life: Racial segregation and Thomas Schelling's chessboard model. Explained by Tim Harford

reaction diffusion labyrinth 2

Pattern formation in a Gray Scott reaction-diffusion system. Java-applet : http://www.joakimlinde.se/java/ReactionDiffusion/index.php

Jacqueline Tellinga : On Politics, Building and Almere

International New Town Institute conference New Towns & Politics Friday 12 november 2010, Library Almere With the fourth INTI conference, New Towns & Politics, we wish to explore thoughts, analyses, projects, designs and political actions pertaining to the political dimension of New Towns, old and new. http://www.newtowninstitute.org

John Bonner's slime mold movies

Biology Professor Emeritus John Bonner's microscope films show the curiously collective nature of slime molds. Read more: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/40/89S11/?section=featured

Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/inside-the-ant-colony-deborah-m-gordon Ants have one of the most complex social organizations in the animal kingdom; they live in structured colonies that contain different types of members who perform specific roles. Sound familiar? Deborah M. Gordon explains the way these incredible creatures mate, communicate and source food, shedding light on how their actions can mimic and inform our own behavior.

Slime Mould outperforming Humans

Remarkable experiment showing the capability of slime moulds to form networks more effectively than us humans From the documentary - the science of decay

Sugarscape

From "Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up," by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell, The Brookings Institution Press/MIT Press, 1996.

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of all knowledge

Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

Game Of Life - John Conway

Also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton. Software from: http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/

Stephen Hawkings The Meaning of Life (John Conway's Game of Life segment)

Watch the video to see a demonstration of simple rules generating complex, emergent patterns!

Jacqueline Tellinga : On Politics, Building and Almere

International New Town Institute conference New Towns & Politics Friday 12 november 2010, Library Almere With the fourth INTI conference, New Towns & Politics, we wish to explore thoughts, analyses, projects, designs and political actions pertaining to the political dimension of New Towns, old and new. http://www.newtowninstitute.org

Reinventing Society in the Digital Age - Dirk Helbing

This talk took place on May 9, 2017 as part of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna workshop series "RE-INVENTING SOCIETY IN THE DIGITAL AGE". The program for the event can be found at https://goo.gl/cloqsb.

MVRDV: Freeland

Freeland, developed by MVRDV and The Why Factory for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 'Common Ground', explores the prospects of complete liberation of urban planning. (Animation by SYNPLE). While not making a specific connection to Complexity thinking, it is a good example of the potential power of bottom-up self-organizing cities.

Benard Rolls

This video shows the emergence of Benard Convection rolls: a classic example of an emergent phenomena that also is subject to a system bifurcation. The direction of the rolls move is subject to a bifurcation point in the system - with an equal probability that the rolls move in one vs the opposite direction. The actual direction the rolls move cannot be predicted and is part of the non-linearity of the system.

MVRDV - Almere Oosterwold

DIY - Urbanism: A development strategy for Almere Oosterwold, titled 'Estate for Initiatives' is a revolution in Dutch urban planning as it steps away from governmental dictate and invites organic urban growth in which initiatives are stimulated and inhabitants can create their own neighbourhoods including public green, urban agriculture and roads."

Masters of Networks 3: online communities

Network scientists and online community managers come together to investigate the secrets of online collaboration

The complexity of the ant world

This amazing video shows how the ants are able to build a complex structure in the absence of top-down control. The manner in which this can occur is part of what is studied in Complex Adaptive Systems Theory