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Dear Ken Thanks a lot for pointing to us this excellent publication. I have just finished reading it and it is indeed recommendable to those designers more involved in 'structuring' artifacts, both material and immaterial. I was particuarly pleased with the authors' mention that designing those naturally complex entities, that meant first to 'understand the relative costs and benefits of their respective architectures' (p. 29). And if allowed, I would add that even prior to such necessary accountancy of costs and benefits leading to right and full "characterisation" (pp. 22, 28, 29) of systems to be designed, one ought to make sure first that those envisaged systems, their components, and their architectures are and will be totally safe to all users, safe to each individual's own systemic architecture, both physically and mentally. Very good "food for thought" and worth to integrate into one's practice mode, at least for those oriented to this subfield of design. And my earnest wish is that some higher level design institutions start training also students to design such complex systems, those artifacts used in our daily life. Prior to rushing to designing mudules of base+bulb+shade, and lamps, at a prime level often skipped, I wish students would instead start learning to conceive systems 'emerging' from necessity to illuminate specific darkened spaces. Once more many thanks for sharing! Francois Kigali On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Dr Chih-Chun Chen and Dr Nathan Crilly of the Cambridge University > Engineering Design Centre Design Practice Group have released a free, > downloadable book, _A Primer on the Design and Science of Complex Systems_. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------