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Design Everywhere: Natural Machines and the Success (and Failure) of Emergent Networks

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Tuesday, April 08, 2014
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Anthony Kosner
Duke Network Analysis Center weekly seminar

Design is a universal principle present in all things, animate and inanimate, as explained by Adrian Bejan's constructal law. At every scale of matter, time and organization there are design processes at work that recognize differences and exploit those differences to accomplish constructive work. These design processes are embodied as natural machines that do the work of intelligent construction at micro scales that become visible at macro scales as patterns, terrains and networks.

Contact: David Diehl