Emerging Sustainability

可持续性是现代社会制度的一个关键挑战。该项目将探讨可持续性作为人、社会、技术以及建筑和自然环境之间相互作用的一种新兴特性。我们将研究允许或阻碍可持续性在健康，有机农业和城市供水系统等领域出现的条件和因素。更重要的是，该项目将试验开源知识空间，作为促进有关复杂系统的新知识出现的方法。我们假设，开放源代码的复杂性理论的理论和方法的发展和专家和从业者在特定领域的知识之间的相互作用，将导致这两个领域的快速和意想不到的进步。

Sustainability is a key challenge for modern social systems. This project will explore sustainability as an emergent property of the interactions between and among people, societies, technologies and the built and natural environments. We will investigate the conditions and factors which allow or hinder the emergence of sustainability in domains including health, organic agriculture and urban water systems. More significantly, the project will experiment with open source knowledge space as a method of facilitating the emergence of new knowledge about complex systems. We hypothesise that open source interaction between theoretical and methodological developments in complexity theory and expert and practitioner knowledge in specific domains will lead to rapid and unanticipated advances in both fields.