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A u t o n o m y: Reflections on scale and complexity
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Nicholas Anastasopoulos, PhD Researcher, Lecturer, School of Architecture|National Technical University of Athens | nanastasopoulos@arch.ntua.gr
Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado, 1965 Telaithrion Project, Evia, Greece , 2013
Robert W. Marks. The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller (New York: Reinhold, 1960).
Occupy Wall Street, NYC 2011
A representation of the human body as a system
SOCIETIES AS VIABLE SYSTEMS: The VSM Model
Stafford BeerDiagnosing the System, 1985
SOCIETIES AS VIABLE SYSTEMS: The VSM Model
The VSM expresses a model for a viable system, which is an abstracted cybernetic (regulation theory) description that is applicable to any organisation that is a viable system and capable of autonomy.
O=The OperationM=The Meta-systemE=The environment
Yaneer Bar-YamNew England Complex Systems Institute
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Greece Ecuador
Surface 131,957 km2 283,560 km2
Population 10,955,000 16,144,000
Independence January 15 1822 from the Ottoman Empire
May 24 1822from Spain
Recognized as independent states February 3 1830 February 16 1840
Debt Audit Commission
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Chevron-TexacoOil drilling in the Amazon
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Chevron-TexacoOil drilling in the Amazon
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Olympic Games, 2004
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Chevron-TexacoOil drilling in the Amazon
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest fires
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013Debt Audit Commission(11/2008)
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest firesDeath of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Dec 6, 2008
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013Debt Audit Commission(11/2008)
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest firesDeath of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Dec 6, 2008Birth of Navarinou Park, Kafeneio in Ak. Platonos, etc
Alianza País splits. Alberto Acosta resigns and indigenous groups walk away
The New Constitutution recognizes legal rights to Nature and introduces the concept of Buen Vivir
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Alianza País elected, 2006
19901964
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013Debt Audit Commission(11/2008)
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest firesDeath of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Dec 6, 2008Birth of Navarinou Park, Kafeneio in Ak. Platonos, etcThe year of the “Squares”, Aganaktismenoi in Syntagma square, the Occupy movement
Alianza País splits. Alberto Acosta resigns and indigenous groups walk away
The New Constitutution recognizes legal rights to Nature and introduces the concept of Buen Vivir
GR
EC
19901964
2014
2006
2007
2008
2013
2011
2015
2004
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013Debt Audit Commission(11/2008)
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest firesDeath of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Dec 6, 2008Birth of Navarinou Park, Kafeneio in Ak. Platonos, etcThe year of the “Squares”, Aganaktismenoi in Syntagma square, the Occupy movement
Founding og Yachay, Ciudad de ConocimientoAlianza País splits. Alberto Acosta resigns and indigenous groups walk away
The New Constitutution recognizes legal rights to Nature and introduces the concept of Buen Vivir
The FLOK Society Research Project
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19901964
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013Debt Audit Commission(11/2008)
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest firesDeath of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Dec 6, 2008Birth of Navarinou Park, Kafeneio in Ak. Platonos, etcThe year of the “Squares”, Aganaktismenoi in Syntagma square, the Occupy movement
Founding og Yachay, Ciudad de ConocimientoAlianza País splits. Alberto Acosta resigns and indigenous groups walk away
The New Constitutution recognizes legal rights to Nature and introduces the concept of Buen Vivir
Syriza comes to power, 26 January 2015
The FLOK Society Research Project
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Alianza País elected, 2006The Yasuní-ITT Initiative 2007-2013Debt Audit Commission(11/2008)
19901964
2014
2006
2007
2008
2013
2011
2015
2004
2009
Olympic Games, 2004Massive forest firesDeath of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Dec 6, 2008Birth of Navarinou Park, Kafeneio in Ak. Platonos, etcThe year of the “Squares”, Aganaktismenoi in Syntagma square, the Occupy movement
Founding og Yachay, Ciudad de ConocimientoAlianza País splits. Alberto Acosta resigns and indigenous groups walk away
The New Constitutution recognizes legal rights to Nature and introduces the concept of Buen Vivir
Syriza comes to power, 26 January 2015
The FLOK Society Research Project
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Ecuador
Yachay, la Ciudad del Conocimiento (city of knowledge), is an ambitious project in the province of Imbabura which calls for the creation of a city around education, research and innovative production. It covers a huge area of 4.200 hectares. Its population at the time of maturity which is meant to be 2045 is expected to reach 120.000.
IKIAM is a university of bio-knowledge and advanced research in the areas of Life Sciences, Earth Sciences founded in the Amazon meant to research and exploit the genetic wealth of the ecosystem. Sciences.
FLOK (which stands for “Free/Libre Open Knowledge”) proposes a fundamental disruption of society. FLOK’s reason-to-be is to create a legal, economic and social framework for an entire country (Ecuador) that is consistent with principles that are the basic foundations of the Internet: peer-to-peer collaboration and shared knowledge.
The National Strategy Center for the Right to Territory (CENEDET) is an independent group based in Quito, Ecuador and founded in 2013 by its directors, the eminent geographer David Harvey and urban planner and architect Miguel Robles-Durán research..
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Casa comunál, Tola Chica, Tumbaco, Ecuador
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Casa comunál, Tola Chica, Tumbaco, Ecuador
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Casa comunál, Tola Chica, Tumbaco, Ecuador
Comunidad Tola ChicaBottom-up
Comunidad Atucucho Al Borde ArquitectosBottom-up
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Comunidad Atucucho Al Borde ArquitectosBottom-up
Al Borde ArquitectosDark resources/ Recursos OscurosBottom-up
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Navarinou Park, AthensBottom-up
Navarinou Park, AthensBottom-up
Spithari, MarathonBottom-up
Spithari, MarathonBottom-up
Spithari, MarathonBottom-up
Elpidohori [Hopeland], ArgolisBottom-up
commonsfest.infoBottom-up
unmonastery.org
A meeting place for the suspiciousA social clinic for the future.
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Yaneer Bar-YamNew England Complex Systems Institute
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