Dear All,
 
In some correspondence with Claude St Arroman (who works in 'metadesign' with Prof John Wood, at Goldsmiths College, University of London), I found myself writing in response to a wonderful chapter she has written on 'space, boundaries and architecture', the following:
 
"Following up a bit further, I think there may be a need to bring out a little more the shift from 'fixed boundary logic' (the logic of complete definition) to 'fluid boundary logic' (the logic of dynamic distinction'). As in the following passage from my Australia Keynote paper.
 

"Rather, natural inclusion embraces, deepens and transforms the partial truth of selective models within the context of what I think is a more comprehensive and coherent understanding of evolutionary processes (Rayner 2004). This new understanding is founded in the post-dialectic fluid boundary logic of ‘natural inclusionality’ and  fluid transfigural logic of ‘mathematical transfigurality’, which recognise all natural form as flow-form, an energetic configuration of space in figure and figure in space (Shakunle and Rayner, 2009). Correspondingly, this logic moves on from opposing ‘one’ against ‘other’ or ‘many’ through their mutual exclusion of space to including each in the reciprocal dynamic influence of the other through their mutual inclusion in and of space (Whitehead and Rayner, 2009). It arises not from the addition of some new connective construct to currently predominant modes of thought in order to integrate everything into a continuous ‘whole’, but through the revelation of what is, always has been and always will be present, by way of receptive and transfigural space. The treatment of this vital and truly continuous presence as a physical absence or 'void nothingness' is at the root of the paradoxical inconsistencies of abstract rationality that have dogged our understanding of evolutionary processes."

 

Hence in natural inclusionality, boundaries are not just variably permeable thresholds between one and other, but variably fluid interfacings that dynamically include each within the other's mutual influence."

 

On reflection, I feel this is one of my clearest expositions, so thought I'd bring your attention to it.

 

 

Warmest

 

Alan