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Ingenious Principles of Nature Do We Reckon With Nature Or Nature Reckons With Us

By: EW Udo Küppers(Author)
511 pages
Publisher: Springer Nature
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About this book

This volume focuses on practical applications of the principles that can be transferred from nature to our design space. It is thereby supported by the regulation and control systems as described by the science of cybernetics.

Contents

- The inexhaustible wealth of evolutionary optimal solutions
- Principles of nature or survival in an open "cooking pot"
- Multidisciplinary developmental works
- Central operating principles of evolution
- Eight basic biocybernetic rules according to Frederic Vester
- Ways out of the trap of human short-sighted design routines
- Application of basic strategic principles of nature in the human design space
- Application of central operational principles of nature in the human design space
- Eight basic operational biocybernetic rules

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Biography

Dr.-Ing. E. W. Udo Küppers studied engineering in Dusseldorf and at the TU Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1983. After scientific activities in research institutions and participation in international R&D projects, he has been leading the independent working group Kuppers-Systemdenken since 2001.

Since 2013 as a lecturer – from 2016 as a director of studies – at AKAD University in Stuttgart, he has been in charge of various teaching modules. Central is the module Interdisciplinary Competence with currently nine technical economic topics, including Systemic Bionics, Cyberphysical Systems and Robotics, Neural Networks, Risk Strategies, Beyond Economics, New Work and Anthropocene.

He is interested in the border area between nature and technology, in particular in a fault-tolerant, highly attentive approach to complex organisational processes, as well as in systemic thinking and action, accompanied by impact network methods for efficient, sustainable practical solutions.

By: EW Udo Küppers(Author)
511 pages
Publisher: Springer Nature
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