4/15 Last Athenaeum at 1pm - Elements and Natural Processes: Designing a Sustainable Path for Large, Complex Systems by Marilyn Klinkner

Join us Wednesday April 15, 2009 at 1:00pm for a presentation by Marilyn Klinkner titled "Elements and Natural Processes: Designing a Sustainable Path for Large, Complex Systems."

"Fixing problems” at the level of detail in complex systems, is an almost certain way of solving one problem by inventing another.” - Karl Henri Robert

Reductionism and Compartmentalization demolish on-going essential processes in art, poetry and nature. This talk will present a powerpoint on sustainable development, where analysis and competence are more essential than values, because the development is success and action-based, back-casted from a vision of the future.

The more rigorously “sustainability” is defined, the easier it is for levels of planning to be built upon. All involved need a shared mental picture of what we want to correct, no matter what their discipline.

“Nobody can look into the future”, Einstein said, “but we can invent it. “ The goal of the talk is to present a model of arriving at a holistic campus initiative dynamically oriented toward planned economical and sustainable action. The audience will see a developed and tested intellectual and institutional structure for inventing and integrating processes to achieve goals in communities.