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| <title>The Turbine Experiment</title> |
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| <section name="The Turbine Experiment"> |
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| <p> |
| |
| The following principles have been excerpted from |
| <em>The Oregon Experiment</em>. <em>The Oregon Experiment</em> |
| is the third volume in a series of books written by |
| Christopher Alexander describing methodologies and patterns |
| for designing healthy architechural structures that |
| satisfy human needs and contribute postively overall |
| to the surrounding ecology. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| Many people in OO design have drawn from the works of |
| Christopher Alexander and I thought it would be a fun |
| (and hopefully beneficial) experiment to systematically |
| apply Christopher Alexander's ideas to the development |
| of Turbine. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| <em>1. The principle of organic order.</em> |
| <br/> |
| Planning and construction will be guided by a |
| process which allows the whole to emerge |
| gradually from local acts. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| <em>2. The principle of participation.</em> |
| <br/> |
| All decisions about what to build, and how to |
| build it, will be in the hands of the users. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| <em>3. The principle of piecemeal growth.</em> |
| <br/> |
| The construction undertaken in each budgetary |
| period will be weighed overwhelmingly toward |
| small projects. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| <em>4. The principle of patterns.</em> |
| <br/> |
| All design and construction will be guided by |
| a collection of communally adopted planning |
| principles called patterns. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| <em>5. The principle of diagnosis.</em> |
| <br/> |
| The well being of the whole will be protected |
| by an annual diagnosis which explains, in detail, |
| which spaces are alive and which ones dead, at |
| any given moment in the history of the community. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| <em>6. The principle of coordination.</em> |
| <br/> |
| Finally, the slow emergence of organic order in |
| the whole will be assured by a funding process |
| which regulates the stream of individual projects |
| put forward by users. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <a href="mailto:dl@cs.oswego.edu">Doug Lea</a> has written an |
| excellent article on the writings of Christoper Alexander and how |
| they relate to the practice of OO software development: |
| <a href="http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/ca/ca/ca.html"> |
| Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers |
| </a> |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section name="References"> |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| 1. Alexander, C., M. Silverstein, S. Angel, S. Ishikawa, and D. Abrams, <em>The |
| Oregon Experiment</em>, Oxford University Press, 1975. ISBN: 0195018249. |
| |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| Alexander, C., <em>Notes on the Synthesis of Form</em>, Harvard University Press, |
| 1964. ISBN: 0674627512. |
| </p> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
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| </body> |
| </document> |
