Abstract
The edge of chaos has been constantly viewed as a metaphor for the current state our world: a constant coexistence of order and disorder. [...] Several authors working within education and organizational environments have highlighted that creators must perform at the ‘edge of chaos’ in order to produce creative and adaptive solutions. [...] This paper aims to discuss the dichotomy between order and disorder in the creative environment (socio- physics aspects) of architecture students from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Particularly, this paper focuses on students who are working on their Final Graduation Work (FGW), because, unlike other tasks, this activity is completed away from the classroom, in a space 'in-between' – in-betweenwork and home spaces, in-between the collective and the individual, in-between order and chaos.
Highlights
The dichotomy between order and chaos has fascinated researchers from many different areas of study for a long time, especially in disciplines that
Several authors working within education and organizational environments have highlighted that creators must perform at the ‘edge of chaos’ in order to produce creative and adaptive solutions (Schwartz, 2014; 1 Cellular automata (CA) are a system of many ‘cell’ objects that have varying states over time, obeying their own physics (Langton, 1990)
This paper focuses on students who are working on their Final Graduation Work (FGW), because, unlike other tasks, this activity is completed away from the classroom, in a space 'in-between' in-between work and home spaces, in-between the collective and the individual, in-between order and chaos
Summary
The dichotomy between order and chaos has fascinated researchers from many different areas of study for a long time, especially in disciplines that. Christopher Langton (1990), who used the concept for computer experiments with cellular automata, associated ‘the edge of chaos’ to the transition between the solid and fluid states of matter He observed that both molecules and cellular automata, when getting near this transition, presented the greatest potential for remaining in an aperiodic non-random behaviour. Several authors working within education and organizational environments have highlighted that creators must perform at the ‘edge of chaos’ in order to produce creative and adaptive solutions (Schwartz, 2014; Day, 2017) This pattern goes against rigid and traditional systems of production, it allows for the existence of more freedom to explore, encouraging diversity and motivating risk-taking procedures (Philip ,2015)
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