Holistic engineering and a renewed science of holism for a thriving world
What does it mean to be alive and create as a 21st-century technologist?
May 2021
In this paper, I take a critical perspective on the de-humanizing and reductionist tendencies of scientific work and the engineering discipline, which has arisen from science intertwined with militarism and imperialism. I offer the lens of complex systems thinking and the practice of participatory action research as alternatives that are more commensurate with life.
This paper is my first deep exploration of these topics. It has deeply changed my coming into being as a regenerative, de-colonial, life-affirmative engineer.
You can find the full paper over here. Feel free to comment on the PDF!
Abstract
Marbles that are part of this thesis
- My attempt to draw a 🔮 Framework for a science of holism.
- Phenomena of complex systems 🔮 MMSPhenomenaOfComplexSystems
- A critique of the violent tendencies of the scientific method and how it is linked to 🔮 academic imperialism.
- Social Darwinism: 🔮 It’s not survival of the fittest but survival of the nurtured
- A concept called 🔮 Autopoiesis: The ability to reproduce and maintain social system
Arisen from this thesis
- A timeline and visualization of the epistemological pieces that influenced the scientific method: 🔮 MMSHistOfSci-A.
Santen, L. (2021). Holistic engineering and a renewed science of holism for a thriving world (Undergraduate thesis).
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