The world today is so complex that it diminishes our understanding
of it. It can be difficult to comprehend the flows of power which
run through the networked technologies, global supply chains, and
supranational regulations that exist all around us and influence
our everyday lives. These are systems - sets of things
interconnected in such a way that they produce their own patterns
and behaviours over time. Systems Ultra explores how we experience
these phenomena, how to understand them more clearly, and, perhaps,
how to change them. In a series of scenarios, Georgina Voss shows
us how to parse our complex world, looking at it through five
themes - scale, legacy, matter, deviance, and breakage - via
contemporary industrial settings of ports, air traffic control,
architecture and construction, payment systems in adult
entertainment, and car crash testing. In these human-made systems,
what is designed and what emerges? What does it mean for a
software-dependent car to break? What does the use of design
software tell us about the workplace culture of architects, and
therefore the limitations of architecture? What happens to port
cities and workers if container ships keep getting bigger? Systems
Ultra offers a toolbox for comprehending, and changing, the world.
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