Emerging Sustainability

可持续性是现代社会制度面临的关键挑战。该项目将探索可持续性，将其作为人、社会、技术以及建筑和自然环境之间相互作用的一种新属性。我们将调查允许或阻碍在卫生、有机农业和城市供水系统等领域实现可持续性的条件和因素。更重要的是，该项目将试验开放源码知识空间，以此作为促进关于复杂系统的新知识出现的一种方法。我们假设，复杂性理论和方法论的发展与特定领域的专家和实践者知识之间的开放源码交互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.