Victor Martinez

Instructor & Researcher, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Vancouver, BC, Canada

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  • "Thank you for this interesting article. I'm not a physicist either but I have been working with systems thinking in design for 8 years now. I just wonder if what the author is describing as unexpected behaviour in quantum states is not actually just another systems phenomenon. In my experience our interpretation of systems operating in seemingly counter-intuitive or counter-factual ways could be just a problem of scale in the sense that is necessary to move to a higher scale to understand those behaviours (and interconnections); or is part of some more direct system characteristics like the information flow, the rules, or the goals of the system. Thinking too that there are systems within systems and they can have different goals, unexpected or counter-intuitive behaviours could emerge; because at the end "reality" is a process that involves consciousness and each stakeholder's experience is different. From quantum physics there are other topics that I found also interesting as analogy or inspiration for design, such as superposition, where all states are present at once, but is until the observer defines a measuring (or interpretation) method that limits it to a single possibility. I see some relation from the latter to the author's mesodesign: a scaffold where all possibilities could be present (intelligent design) and is the network that defines the states according to their "reality" becoming a "living" process. Applying this to single objects gives great potential to an aesthetics exploration where all the functions or purposes of an object are present at once, and is the user that according to the "measuring" method defines its state. Extraordinary and very exciting themes, glad to see this type of content at Core77."
    on: How Quantum Physics Might Help Us Design More Elegant and Scalable Solutions 
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