🌿🧭🌳 OD95: Special edition - A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander 🗺
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As we count down towards the end of 2022, we wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your continued readership.
We want to celebrate this moment with a special edition, one that is more subtly linked to the Strategy & Organization topics that we’re usually covering.
For all the current and future fans of Christopher Alexander, here is the map of all the 253 patterns covered in the “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction” book.
One useful lens is to look at patterns as mental interlocking bricks that practitioners in various fields can use to practice their craft better.
For architects and practitioners in adjacent fields, Christopher Alexander et al. have identified 253 such patterns and the language that connects them. There are similar endeavours in fields like Strategy (see “Patterns of Strategy” by Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh), or Enterprise Design (see “Enterprise Design Patterns” by Wolfgang Goebl et al.).
We hope you enjoy exploring the map and connecting the dots through analogies between designing and developing towns, networks, communities, path networks, buildings, gardens, rooms, walls and ornaments and designing and developing strategies, business ecosystems, organizations, teams and individuals.
See you in 2023 and have a New Year filled with inspiration and peace,
Raluca & Bülent
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