[Stoves] How to thnk about complex engineering solutions

Richard Stanley rstanley at legacyfound.org
Thu Mar 10 18:23:49 CST 2011


As our dear firend and expert trainer Mary Oloo in Miumbuni Kenya would say, 
 
 ....yes

Really, where are you going with this approach ? 

Richard Stanley


On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:

> Dear Friends
> 
> Stoves are technically complex and interact with complex social needs and wants. There is a way of thinking about the endless complexity that might interest you.
> 
> http://www.necsi.edu/projects/yaneer/ESOA04.pdf
> 
> About Engineering Complex Systems: Multiscale Analysis and Evolutionary Engineering
> Yaneer Bar-Yam
> New England Complex Systems Institute,
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> 
> Abstract. We describe an analytic approach, multiscale analysis, that can demonstrate the fundamental limitations of decomposition based engineering for the development of highly complex systems. The planning based process is limited by the interdependence of components and communication between design teams. Thus, the construction of many highly complex systems should be pursued by strategies modeled after biological evolution, or market economies, where extensive planning is forsaken and multiple parallel design efforts compete for adoption through testing in actual use.
> +++++
> 
> You may be interesting to think about how this approach applies to stove programmes.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Crispin in Ulaanbaatar doing exactly that
> 
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