What is Data and how can we Locate Synergies in Systems that Share it?

• In seeking a better alternative to ecological design the m21 mission is to explore the idea of synergy.
• By designing for synergy we hope to create metadesign tools for use by designers and others.
• This would need its own design discourse and a new type of metadesign

This workshop on Data-Sharing Synergies took place on 23rd March

see General outcomes from Data-sharing synergies workshop

• We hope this investigation will inform later practical outcomes.
• We will try to define data, and look for synergy in systems that share data.

What are Data-Sharing Synergies?

• It is likely that data-sharing synergies are auspicious effects that emerge without human intervention.
• For practical reasons we are working with four SynergyOrders that reflect different levels of complexity
• We then hope to re-combine these different synergies into a synergy of synergies (Fuller, 1975)
• Data-Sharing is the first - and perhaps the least complex - of our four synergies.
• The word data is the plural of the latin word datum
• Data can be referred to as "something given" - a reference point.
• Information is the result of processing data, or in other words - is the context in which data is taken.
• (See a Data-Sharing Synergies lecture on this topic by Prof. Phil Jones).

Eight Research Consultants

• We have invited 8 guest consultants to bring their own interpretations of data-sharing synergies.
• We hope that each will be able to help us to deepen our understanding of what data means.
• Each will be invited to cite practical examples of synergies that emerge from the way data combine.

Please see Agenda for the day

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