9 Conversations for Understanding:
Structural Coupling
Virtual Reality
This subsection builds on the background presented in Section 3 on Visualization
and Simulation.
Control in real-time: simulation with visualization, computed
and presented for an experience of the system as if it were real
1st-order coupling: physical/kinesthetic attachment to parameters of the
simulation for the experience of real control
Direct connect to system's "hows": understanding of the system
emerges from experience and experimentation with 1st order coupling
Virtual Reality Applied
Systems view of citizen and producer as interaction of living systems each
with needs/goals/constraints:
Structural coupling as a model of the relationship between provider and
consumer, conceived as non-paternalistic, non-judgemental, non-controlling
and symmetric
Domain of interaction is domain of possible distinctions
Language as determinant of possibilities/distinctions
Language as (possible) emergent property of structural coupling
Allowing possibilities to emerge in conversation is the third dimension
of Conversations for Design
Negotiation for expression of each participant's wants/needs/constraints/possibilities
Mutual dance for mutual fulfillment
"Reality" of participants arises in structural coupling
