Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World

Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world―rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging, and architecture, which is about designing contexts. In such a practice, design, unbound from its material thingness, is set free to design contexts as complex systems.