1. Alex (Jun) Zhu , User Experience Manager, SAP

3. Multidisciplinary Landscape of Design: Design Business Technology Architecture Urban Planning Economics Linguistics Art System Dynamics Literature Philosophy Psychology Sociology Anthropology Biography Ethics Politics

11. Environment/Context External Force External Force Tie between substructures Entity with attributes Substructure Boundary Tie between substructures

31. Mistério e melancolia de uma rua (Giorgio de Chirico, 1914) Kashgar , 2005 Delhi, 2007 Trastevere, Rome, 2004

32. ” Lewis Mumford The Culture of Cities, 1937 The essential physical means of a city's existence are the fixed site, the durable shelter, the permanent facilities for assembly, interchange, and storage; the essential social means are the social division of labor, which serves not merely the economic life but the cultural process. The city in its complete sense, then, is a geographic plexus, an economic organization, an institutional process, a theater of social action, and an esthetic symbol of collective unity. … The city creates the theater and is the theater . It is in the city, the city as theater, that man’s more purposive activities are formulated and worked out, through conflicting and cooperating personalities , events , groups , into more significant culminations “

33. ” Italo Calvino Chapter 1, Invisible Cities In vain, great-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades' curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing . The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past : the height of a lamppost and the distance from the ground of a hanged usurper's swaying feet; the line strung from the lamppost to the railing opposite and the festoons that decorate the course of the queen's nuptial procession; the height of that railing and the leap of the adulterer who climbed over it at dawn; the tilt of a guttering and a cat's progress along it as he slips into the same window; the firing range of a gunboat which has suddenly appeared beyond the cape and the bomb that destroys the guttering; the rips in the fish net and the three old men seated on the dock mending nets and telling each other for the hundredth time the story of the gunboat of the usurper, who some say was the queen's illegitimate son, abandoned in his swaddling clothes there on the dock. “

34. ” Italo Calvino Chapter 1, Invisible Cities 宽宏大量的忽必烈汗啊，无论我怎样描述采拉这个有许多巍峨碉堡的城，都是徒劳无功的。 我可以告诉你，像楼梯一样升高的街道有多少级，拱廊的弯度多大，屋顶 上铺着怎样的锌片； 可是我已经知道，那等于什么都没有告诉你 。组成这城市的并不是这些东西而是它的 空间面积 与 历史事件 之间的 关系 ：灯柱的高度、被吊死的篡朝者摆荡的脚与地面的距离；系在灯柱与对面铁栏之间的绳索、女皇大婚巡行时沿路张结的彩带；栅栏有多高、偷情的男子如何在黎明时分跃起爬过它；檐槽的斜度、他闪进窗子时一头猫怎样沿着檐槽走过；突然在海峡外出现的炮艇的火器射程有多远、炮弹怎样轰掉檐槽；鱼网的裂口、坐在码头上的三个老人怎样一面补网一 面交换已经讲过一百次的炮艇和篡朝者的故事 —— 有人说他是在襁褓时就给遗弃在这码头上的、女皇的私生子。 “

42. The “Hard” Part and The “Soft” Part in Cosmos: Three Nebulae in Narrow Band (Source: NASA Website)

47. The problem, like all those with which we are concerned, is one of balance. Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos . “ ” Bertrand Russell

54. Linked “Hole”: Duet™ - Seamless integrates Microsoft® Office and SAP Backend

57. Fallingwater ( Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936)

59. Environmental Fitness: Environment/Context External Force External Force

61. Example: Ross Lovegrove’s Organic Design “ Go” Chair ( Ross Lovegrove ) Ty Nant Water Bottle ( Ross Lovegrove )

63. There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served . “ ” Jane Jacobs Urban Thinker

77. René Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt. The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible , and as might be necessary for its adequate solution. The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know , I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence. And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted. “ ”

80. Non-human animals could be reductively explained as automata (De Homines 1622) Paul Cézanne believed that all objects can be abstracted as cylinders, spheres, and cones.

85. ” Su Dongpo Handwriting on The Wall of Xilin Looks like a ridge from one perspective, Looks like a peak from another, Knowing not the true face of Lushan Mountain, For I am in its midst . “

103. Internal Fitness: Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York ( Frank Lloyd Wright, 19 59 )

107. Internal Fitness: External Force Internal Force External Force Internal Force

118. Plants in The Nature (Alex) Prosperity in A Market (Bab)

130. Man-made Creature by Theo Jansen by using Genetic Algorithm

131. Wikipedia: A self-organized encyclopedia that grows everyday

132. Tagging: an emerging structure with no up-front planning or central control Tags , Semi-structured , Collective Intelligence , Evolve , Flexibility , Democracy , Organic , Discoverability , Information Visualization , Decentralized

133. Amazon’s Recommendation Engine: Intelligence based on simple algorithms

134. Social Network: Another example of growing structure

143. Open Source Example: Firefox’s Extensions

144. Yahoo Widget

147. EBay: Order Achieved by Reputation Mechanism (self-interest)

148. Market-driven Approach to Relieve Global Warming: Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading

149. Second Life: self-created and self-organized society

150. Google: A Market Place for Websites to Attract Customers

151. Mash-up: Google Map as a service + Smugmug as photo sharing service

179. Plurality should not be posited without necessity. “ ” Occam's razor William of Ockham