NATURE CENTERED INFORMATION SYSTEMS: HOW PHILOSOPHY AND POETRY HELPS IN DESIGNING TECHNICAL SYSTEMS

摘要

Human Centered Design suffers from the same ignominy of Machine Centered Design that it promised to eradicate in the first place. This observation provided to us the grist for the mill in exploring the idea of Nature Centered Design. This design philosophy emphasizes the production of nature-like objects that conflate into the natural ecological system with an acceptable disorder in its entropy. This is only possible if thaumaturgy of Nature is used to cope with awe as a driving impulse to the awareness and consciousness of the designer. He can then explore the laws of Nature and apply them in the design of technological systems that are natural to interact with. In this paper we do a per-vestigation of the natural ecological system with a sentient contemplation to articulate the architecture of an information system based on the ecological relationships of natural objects in Nature.