A first draft of harvesting all admissions from the Design Challenge Energetic City 2050 describing the 20 change dynamics/ energy systems used.

1. PRINCIPLE #1
RHIZOME
GRASSROOTS
DYNAMIC
A rhizome is a stem of a plantt hat is usually found underground, often sending out
roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes may also be referred to as creeping
rootstalks or rootstocks. If a rhizome is separated into pieces, each piece may be able
to give rise to a new plant. This is a process known as vegetative reproduction and is
used by farmers and gardeners to propagate certain plants.
SOCIAL
As a model for culture, the rhizome resists the organizational structure of the root-
tree system which charts causality along chronological lines and looks for the
originary source of "things" and looks towards the pinnacle or conclusion of those
"things." A rhizome, on the other hand, is characterized by "ceaselessly established
connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances
relative to the arts, sciences, and social struggles." Rather than narrativize history and
culture, the rhizome presents history and culture as a map or wide array of
attractions and influences with no specific origin or genesis, for a "rhizome has no
beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo.”
SPATIAL
At the end of the day the rhizome is able to do what it can do because it is alive and is
self replicating and self repairing.

2. PRINCIPLE #2
MEMBRANE
FILM
DYNAMIC
The term membrane most commonly refers to a thin, film-like structure that
separates two fluids. It acts as a selective barrier, allowing some particles or
chemicals to pass through, but not others. In some cases, especially in anatomy,
membrane may refer to a thin film that is primarily a separating structure rather than
a selective barrier.
SOCIAL
The image of the biological cell has become one of the reigning metaphors as a
fundamental assumption about human identity: the idea that selfhood requires
boundaries showing where the individual ends and the rest of the world begins. It all
starts with the notion that impermeable personal and national borders are
increasingly dangerous; boundaries between science and the humanities are blurring
by proposing a notion of identity based on relations and connections.
SPATIAL
Translucent or transparent, flexible, strong, energy-efficient and dazzling, designs
including membrane materials have opened up new perspectives in architecture.
From small awnings to vast stadiums, membranes easily inspire new forms. Self-
supporting curved surfaces are a reality. Light is incorporated more thoroughly than
ever before. Strength and fire-resistance bring a functional yet striking style to a
diverse range of projects and functions.

3. PRINCIPLE #3
EXERGY
QUALITY
DYNAMIC
Exergy is the energy that is available to be used. After the system and surroundings
reach equilibrium, the exergy is zero. The destroyed exergy has been called anergy.
The cumulative exergy consumption of a good is a sum of the exergy decreases that
occurred in order to create it. The ratio of exergy to energy in a substance can be
considered a measure of energy quality.
SOCIAL
Exergy is the fuel for dissipative systems, i.e. systems that are sustained by converting
energy and matter, e.g. a living cell, an organism, an eco-system, the Earth's surface
with its material cycles, or a society. The exergy concept should, therefore, be used
systematically to describe such systems scientifically. Human settlements and
landscapes are part of the physical environment, which is governed by the Laws of
Thermodynamics.
SPATIAL
The key question is whether second-law thinking can advance the planning and
design of exergetic landscapes or, more specifically, whether spatial planning and
design can help reduce exergy destruction in the built environment. The assimilation
of renewable energies will claim space in the landscape, while the spatial
organisation of the physical environment will influence how much energy at which
quality is required to sustain humanity. That is why we believe that landscapes should
develop into highly structured and symbiotic life-support systems that
maximiseexergy dissipation and minimise entropy production.

4. PRINCIPLE #4
PANARCHY
NESTING
DYNAMIC
Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of nature (e.g., forests)
and of humans (e.g., capitalism), as well as combined human-natural systems (e.g.,
institutions that govern natural resource use such as the Forest Service), are
interlinked in continual adaptive cycles of growth, accumulation, restructuring, and
renewal. The cross-scale, interdisciplinary, and dynamic nature of the theory has led
us to coin the term panarchy for it. Its essential focus is to rationalize the interplay
between change and persistence, between the predictable and unpredictable.”
SOCIAL
Panarchy, a term devised to describe evolving hierarchical systems with multiple
interrelated elements, offers an important new framework for understanding and
resolving this dilemma. Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of
nature and of humans, as well as combined human-natural systems, are interlinked in
continual adaptive cycles of growth, accumulation, restructuring, and renewal. These
transformational cycles take place at scales ranging from a drop of water to the
biosphere, over periods from days to geologic epochs
SPATIAL
Panarchitecture is a kind of hybrid thinking that combines insights and practices from
architectural thinking with those from ecological thinking—specifically the ecological
thinking known as panarchy.Panarchy (as a metaphor) seems to be useful in providing
alternative insights into neighbourhood dynamics.

5. PRINCIPLE #5
SYNERGY
SUM OF PARTS
DYNAMIC
Synergy is two or more things functioning together to produce a result not
independently obtainable, the ability of a group to outperform even its best
individual member. A third form of human synergy is when one person is able to
complete two separate tasks by doing one action.
SOCIAL
. Effective groups actively lood for the points in which they disagreed and in
consequence encouraged conflicts amongst the participants in the early stages of the
discussion. In contrast, the ineffective groups felt a need to establish a common view
quickly, used simple decision making methods such as averaging, and focused on
completing the task rather than on finding solutions they could agree on.] In a
technical context, its meaning is a construct or collection of different elements
working together to produce results not obtainable by any of the elements alone.
SPATIAL
The elements, or parts, can include people, hardware, software, facilities, policies,
documents: all things required to produce system-level results. The value added by
the system as a whole, beyond that contributed independently by the parts, is
created primarily by the relationship among the parts, that is, how they are
interconnected. In essence, a system constitutes a set of interrelated components
working together with a common objective: fulfilling some designated need

6. PRINCIPLE #6
INTEGRAL
OPTIMAL
DYNAMIC
Integration is an important concept in mathematics and, together with its inverse,
differentiation, is one of the two main operations in calculus.
SOCIAL
Integral society is best understood as Global Civil Society’s answer to the malady of
modernism. It is most easily seen via the “web” metamorphosis sweeping through
every facet of today’s increasingly global civilization. Thus, after 300 years of great
expectations leading to stark realities, western civilization is abandoning modern
culture’s machine story of life and sweeping into the Integral Era with a brand-new
web worldview. Already visible in concepts such as global economy, global village,
holistic health, One Planet, and the World Wide Web, every facet of our society—
from business, education and medicine to community building, politics and
spirituality — is being recast in kind.
SPATIAL
Urban design success should be measured by its capacity to support humanity.
Integral city or urbanism offers guideposts along that path toward a more sustainable
human habitat. To embrace convergence, clearing Blockages, Alignment, and across
the Fissures., Integral Urbanism must embody five qualities: Hybridity, Connectivity,
Porosity, Authenticity, and Vulnerability.

7. PRINCIPLE #7
EMPOWERMENT
DECENTRALIZED
DYNAMIC
Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender
or economic strength of individuals and communities. The process which enables
individuals/groups to fully access personal/collective power, authority and influence,
and to employ that strength when engaging with other people, institutions or society.
In other words, “Empowerment is not giving people power, people already have
plenty of power, in the wealth of their knowledge and motivation, to do their jobs
magnificently. We define empowerment as letting this power out: self-managing
groups, create autonomy through boundaries, share.
SOCIAL
Sociological empowerment often addresses members of groups that social
discrimination processes have excluded from decision-making processes. It
encourages people to gain the skills and knowledge that will allow them to overcome
obstacles in life or work environment and ultimately, help them develop within
themselves or in the society. Empowerment may also have a negative impact on
individuals, corporations and productivity depending on an individuals views and
goals. It can divide the genders or the races
SPATIAL
Case studies from across the world demonstrate that the architecture of
empowerment has already proved a successful and versatile solution to revitalising
historic cities, upgrading slums and creating new settlements.

8. PRINCIPLE #8
LEARNING
DOUBLE LOOP/
DYNAMIC PRAGMATISM
Learning from experience is one of the most fundamental forms of learning but it has
tended to be less valued within formal education until recently. Within professional
education our interest is not so much in learning from a single experience, or learning
in the short term; but more in a long term, developmental process that enables
learners to develop well grounded professional knowledge and skills. The term
reflective, refers to the idea that learners construct knowledge for themselves
SOCIAL
Reflective thinking and the perception of relationships arise only in problematical
situations. As long as our interaction with our environment is a fairly smooth affair
we may think of nothing or merely daydream, but when this untroubled state of
affairs is disrupted we have a problem which must be solved before the untroubled
state can be restored.
SPATIAL
Human intelligence is the basic bio-cultural good of his democratic method of social
reconstruction, which begins with the kind of naturalistic biological understanding
that is crucial to environmental practice. It is a mistake to conceive of the human
mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate, upon which any notions whatsoever can be
imprinted, is that all genuinely educative experience arises from “the native structure
of our body, organs, and their functional activities and their direct interaction with
the environment.” In short, the relationship between the body’s natural needs and its
given historically and geographically contingent environment furnishes “the initiating
and limiting forces in all education.”

9. PRINCIPLE #9
METABOLIC
CELL
DYNAMIC
Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that happen in the cells of living
organisms to sustain life. The metabolism of an organism determines which
substances it will find nutritious and which it will find poisonous.. Metabolism is
usually divided into two categories. Catabolism breaks down organic matter, for
example to harvest energy in cellular respiration. Anabolism uses energy to construct
components of cells such as proteins and nucleic acids
SOCIAL
One central concept in Marx’s thought on this topic is that of the “social metabolism”
between the mankind and nature. Marx came to this concept thanks to the works of
the agro-chemist Liebig, who had produced evidence that urbanization had broken
up the nutrient cycle: mineral matter incorporated in food, clothes, etc. was exported
to cities and eventually polluted the rivers and the sea, instead of going back into the
soil as it had in pre-capitalist societies.
SPATIAL
Urban Metabolism is a model to facilitate the description and analysis of the flows of
the materials and energy within cities. The use of the Urban Metabolism model offers
benefits to studies of the sustainability of cities by providing a unified or holistic
viewpoint to encompass all of the activities of a city in a single model: “the sum total
of the technical and socio-economic processes that occur in cities, resulting in
growth, production of energy, and elimination of waste.

10. PRINCIPLE #10
EMERGENCE
SWARM/ MESH
DYNAMIC
Every resultant is either a sum or a difference of the co-operant forces; their sum,
when their directions are the same -- their difference, when their directions are
contrary. Further, every resultant is clearly traceable in its components, because
these are homogeneous and commensurable. It is otherwise with emergents, when,
instead of adding measurable motion to measurable motion, or things of one kind to
other individuals of their kind, there is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds. The
emergent is unlike its components insofar as these are incommensurable, and it
cannot be reduced to their sum or their difference.
SOCIAL
Swarming is a well-known behaviour in many animal species from marching locusts
to schooling fish to flocking birds. Emergent structures are a common strategy found
in many animal groups: colonies of ants, mounds built by termites, swarms of bees,
shoals/schools of fish, flocks of birds, and herds/packs of mammals.
SPATIAL
Emergent structures are patterns (fractals) that cannot result from a small set of rules
or events. The common characteristics are: (1) radical novelty (features not
previously observed in systems); (2) coherence or correlation (meaning integrated
wholes that maintain themselves over some period of time); (3) A global or macro
"level" (i.e. there is some property of "wholeness"); (4) it is the product of a
dynamical process (it evolves); and (5) it is "ostensive" (it can be perceived).

11. PRINCIPLE #11
SYMBIOSIS
INTERDEPENDENT
DYNAMIC
Symbiosis or Mutualism is any relationship between individuals of different species
where both individuals derive a benefit. In general, only lifelong interactions involving
close physical and biochemical contact can properly be considered symbiotic. The
modern meaning of the term symbiosis is broad and ranges from mutualistic
symbiosis with maximal cooperation (via bilateral exploitation) to non-cooperative
parasitism (with unilateral exploitation).
SOCIAL
This evolutionary theory of cooperation or social symbiosis is also commonly referred
to as “kinship theory” or “kin-selection” theory, because it is through kinship with
breeders that helpers realize copies of their own genes in the next generation even if
they do not reproduce themselves. Recent evolutionary theory recognizes the
parallels between understanding conflict and cooperation at the individual level and
the species level and models of symbiosis work in approximately the same way as
kin-selection models.
SPATIAL
Symbiotic relationships include those associations in which one organism lives on
another, or where one partner lives inside the other. Symbiosis played a major role in
the co-evolution of flowering plants and the animals that pollinate them. Many
plants that are pollinated by insects, bats, or birds have highly specialized flowers
modified to promote pollination by a specific pollinator that is also correspondingly
adapted.

12. PRINCIPLE #12
CYCLICAL
SEASONS
DYNAMIC
A process that returns to its beginning and repeats itself in the same sequence. Such
processes are seen in many fields, such as physics, mathematics, biology, astronomy,
economics, audio frequency, etc.
SOCIAL
Life cycle is a period involving all different generations of a species succeeding each
other through means of reproduction, whether through asexual reproduction or
sexual reproduction (a period from one generation of organisms to the same
identical).
SPATIAL
There are 3 types of cycles: haplonticlife cyclediplontic life cyclediplobiontic life cycle
(also referred to as diplohaplontic, haplodiplontic, or dibiontic life cycle).
Life Cycle in urban planning or architecture is the dynamic, iterative process of
changing the landscape over time by incorporating new planning processes, new
technology, and new capabilities, as well as maintenance, disposition and disposal of
existing elements of the city.

13. PRINCIPLE #13
NETWORKED
NODES, & SPOKES
DYNAMIC
Most social, biological, and technological networks display substantial non-trivial
topological features, with patterns of connection between their elements that are
neither purely regular nor purely random. Such features include a heavy tail in the
degree distribution, a high clustering coefficient, assortativity or disassortativity
among vertices, community structure, and hierarchical structure.
SOCIAL
A network is called a small-world network by analogy with the small-world
phenomenon (popularly known as six degrees of separation). The small world
hypothesis, is the idea that two arbitrary people are connected by only six degrees of
separation, i.e. the diameter of the corresponding graph of social connections is not
much larger than six.
SPATIAL
In the context of network theory, a complex network is a graph (network) with non-
trivial topological features—features that do not occur in simple networks such as
lattices or random graphs but often occur in real graphs. A network is named scale-
free if its degree distribution, follows a particular mathematical function called a
power law. The power law implies that the degree distribution of these networks has
no characteristic scale.

14. PRINCIPLE #14
FLOW
PRESENCE
DYNAMIC
For the most part (except for basic bodily feelings like hunger and pain, which are
innate), people are able to decide what they want to focus their attention on.
However, when one is in the flow state, he or she is completely engrossed with the
one task at hand and, without making the conscious decision to do so, loses
awareness of all other things: time, people, distractions, and even basic bodily needs.
This occurs because all of the attention of the person in the flow state is on the task
at hand; there is no more attention to be allocated.
SOCIAL
Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully
immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process
of the activity.
SPATIAL
In graph theory, a flow network (also known as a transportation network) is a
directed graph where each edge has a capacity and each edge receives a flow. The
amount of flow on an edge cannot exceed the capacity of the edge. Often in
Operations Research, a directed graph is called a network, the vertices are called
nodes and the edges are called arcs. A flow must satisfy the restriction that the
amount of flow into a node equals the amount of flow out of it, except when it is a
source, which has more outgoing flow, or sink, which has more incoming flow. A
network can be used to model traffic in a road system, fluids in pipes, currents in an
electrical circuit, or anything similar in which something travels through a network of
nodes.

15. PRINCIPLE #15
BACTERIA
COLONIES
DYNAMIC
There are approximately ten times as many bacterial cells in the human flora as there
are human cells in the body. Many important biochemical reactions, such as energy
generation, occur by concentration gradients across membranes, a potential
difference also found in a battery.
SOCIAL
Bacteria, long perceived as simple creatures, are now recognised to be smart beasts
that can conduct intricate social life while using sophisticated chemical language, one
we have only recently begun to decode. The bacterial power of cooperation is
manifested by their ability to develop large colonies of astonishing complexity. While
the number of bacteria in a colony can be more than 100 times the number of people
on Earth, bacteria are twittering (“ bacterial twittering” or “chemical tweeting”) to
make sure they all know what they all doing (by exchanging “chemical tweets”).
Bacteria are the most prolific organisms on Earth. Many of them are fierce killers, but
many more are indispensible to our survival.
SPATIAL
Bacteria display many cell morphologies and arrangements. Bacteria often attach to
surfaces and form dense aggregations called biofilms or bacterial mats. ria living in
biofilms display a complex arrangement of cells and extracellular components,
forming secondary structures such as microcolonies, through which there are
networks of channels to enable better diffusion of nutrients.

16. PRINCIPLE #16
INTELLIGENT
COLLECTIVE INFORMATION
DYNAMIC
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways, including the abilities, but not
limited to, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication,
reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem
solving.
SOCIAL
Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but has also been observed in animals
and plants. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines or the simulation of
intelligence in machines.
The theory of multiple intelligences as a model of intelligence claims that
differentiates intelligence into various specific (primarily sensory) modalities
[disambiguation needed], rather than seeing it as dominated by a single general
ability.
SPATIAL
Principles of Intelligent Urbanism (PIU) is a theory of urban planning composed of a
set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs.
They are intended to reconcile and integrate diverse urban planning and
management concerns. These axioms include environmental sustainability, heritage
conservation, appropriate technology, infrastructure efficiency, placemaking, "Social
Access," transit oriented development, regional integration, human scale, and
institutional integrity.

17. PRINCIPLE #17
PERMACULTURE
NATURAL PATTERNS
DYNAMIC
Permaculture is a philosophy of ecological design which attempts to develop
sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems modeled from natural
ecosystems. The word "permaculture" originally referred to "permanent agriculture"
but was expanded to stand also for "permanent culture," as it was seen that social
aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system.
SOCIAL
Don’t tell people how to garden, or how to build a house. Your function as a designer
is to place things in the environment, and place them in such a way that you use their
multiple functions, that you create low energy inputs for high yield and stability.At
the same time, your role is that of a creative observer. You must learn to observe
nature, to recognize how to develop potential uses so that humans may benefit.
SPATIAL
The patterns of the natural world play a prominent part in the design practice of
Permaculture. Too often though natural patterns and shapes (spirals, curves, waves,
branches etc.) are used as if they were magical — as if “naturalness” was a sufficient
condition for their use in design. There are two aspects to patterning: the perception
of the pattern that already exists and how these function, and the imposition of
pattern on sites in order to achieve some specific ends. Also be provoked to think of
what forces and conditions influenced the particular organisms to possess these
shapes?

18. PRINCIPLE #18
ECOSYSTEM
I=input
A=assimilation
R=respiration
NU=not utilized
P=production
B=biomass
WASTE IS FOOD
DYNAMIC
Key processes in ecosystems include the capture of light energy and carbon through
photosynthesis, the transfer of carbon and energy through food webs, and the
release of nutrients and carbon through decomposition. Biodiversity affects
ecosystem functioning, as do the processes of disturbance and succession.
SOCIAL
Ecosystems are dynamic entities—invariably, they are subject to periodic
disturbances and are in the process of recovering from some past disturbance. When
an ecosystem is subject to some sort of perturbation, it responds by moving away
from its initial state. The tendency of a system to remain close to its equilibrium
state, despite that disturbance, is termed its resistance. On the other hand, the speed
with which it returns to its initial state after disturbance is called its resilience.
SPATIAL
Left: The frog represents a node in an extended food web. The energy ingested is
utilized for metabolic processes and transformed into biomass. The energy flow
continues on its path if the frog is ingested by predators, parasites, or as a decaying
carcass in soil.
Right: An expanded three link energy food chain (1. plants, 2. herbivores, 3.
carnivores) illustrating the relationship between food flow diagrams and energy
transformity. The transformity of energy becomes degraded, dispersed, and
diminished from higher quality to lesser quantity as the energy within a food chain
flows from one trophic species into another.

19. PRINCIPLE #19
MARKETS
CONVERSATIONS
DYNAMIC
A market is one of many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations
and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange.
SOCIAL
Markets allow any tradable item to be evaluated and priced. A market emerges more
or less spontaneously or is constructed deliberately by human interaction in order to
enable the exchange of rights (cf. ownership) of services and goods. A market can be
organized as an auction, as a private electronic market, as a commodity wholesale
market, as a shopping center, as a complex institution such as a stock market, and as
an informal discussion between two individuals. Markets of varying types can
spontaneously arise whenever a party has interest in a good or service that some
other party can provide.
SPATIAL
The literal meaning of the word is "Gathering place" or "Assembly". The agora was
the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city. Later, the Agora
also served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods.
From this twin function of the Agora as a political and commercial space came the
two Greek verbs ἀγοράζω, agorázō, "I shop", and ἀγορεύω, agoreúō, "I speak in
public". Markets are therefor often defined as conversations.

20. PRINCIPLE #20
QUANTUM
DYNAMIC FIELDS & WAVES
In a quest to find equilibrium, fields of quantum energy respond by resisting forces
that appear to have originated outside the parameters and constraints of their own
field of awareness. In essence, a relationship is created born of an intention that
originates from a position of unity, the degree of which can be felt and at times
measurably understood. The momentum created in response to this projection is
typically greater than the original force, a counter projection intended to restore
balance within the contextual constraints of its own field. The process of bringing
harmony between energy fields also creates a new “tipping point” between them.
SOCIAL
Consciousness can be expanded solely upon a change of energy, i.e. frequency, within
the parametric field in which it has its position. Similar to a tuning fork, fields of “like
kind” will resonate and be attracted to each other.
SPATIAL
In a three dimensional universe these “individual” forces create the micro fields, i.e.
dualities, required for both an expansion and contraction within the context of both
meaning and purpose. These impressions are received through quantum receptors
linked to the virtual fields of both the brain and the heart in addition to other organs
and systems that together give form to the physical body. Impulses in the form of
quantum energy are linked to virtual fields we describe as our mind and our
emotions. The effect supports the concept we describe as experience. These
experiences appear symbolically before our consciousness in the form of a hologram

21. PRINCIPLE #21
BOUNDARIES
DYNAMIC REFLECTION/ ABSORPTION
A system boundary is a two-dimensional closed surface that encloses or demarcates
the volume or region that a thermodynamic system occupies, across which quantities
such as heat, mass, or work can flow.In short, a thermodynamic boundary is a
geometrical division between a system and its surroundings.
SOCIAL
Social boundaries separate us fromthem. Explaining the formation, transformation,
activation, and suppression of social boundaries presents knotty problems. It helps to
distinguish two sets of mechanisms: (1) those that precipitate boundary change and
(2) those that constitute boundary change. Precipitants of boundary change include
encounter, imposition, borrowing, conversation, and incentive shift. Constitutive
mechanisms include inscription–erasure, activation–deactivation, site transfer, and
relocation. Effects of boundary change include attack–defense sequences.
SPATIAL
Topologically, it is usually considered to be nearly or piecewise smoothly
homeomorphic with a two-sphere, because a system is usually considered to be
simply connected. For theoretical purposes, a boundary may be declared to be
adiabatic, isothermal, diathermal, insulating, permeable, or semipermeable. The
system is the part of the universe being studied, while the surroundings is the
remainder of the universe that lies outside the boundaries of the system. It is also
known as the environment, and the reservoir. Depending on the type of system, it
may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy (including heat and work),
momentum, electric charge, or other conserved properties