The Metaverse as Lab to Experiment with Problems of Organized Complexity

• Published in: Complexity and Planning pp. 369 - 384
• Main Author: Devisch, Oswald
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2012
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Complex Systems Theory; Rank Size Distributions; Global Positioning System Trackers; Electronic Computing; Gps Tracker; Port Authorities; Vice Versa; ABM; Virtual Experimentation Labs; Urban Sensing; Urban Heat Islands; Individual Pedestrians; UG; Casa; Large Scale Urban Models; Google Earth; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Public Administration; Electronic Computation; Cellular Automata; Mirror Worlds; AR; Real World Social Networks; Complex Physical Environments; Space Time Geographic Information Systems
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315573199-20
• ISBN: 1138109584; 9781409403470; 1409403475; 9781138109582

In 1948 Warren Weaver, later accredited with being one of the founding fathers of complexity theory, introduced the notion 'Problems of Organized Complexity', referring to complex problems displaying essential features of organization, and proclaimed simulations as the tool to tackle these problems. Since Weaver's proclamation, (computer) simulations have indeed been explored, also within the field of planning, to operate in - in the case of planning - complex physical settings. Such explorations typically start off as theoretical experiments, but seldom make it to the planning practice.