Metapattern
A metapattern is a pattern of patterns.
Definition
The concept of a metapattern was introduced by Gregory Bateson in the introduction to his 1979 book Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity.[1] "My central thesis can now be approached in words: The pattern which connects is a metapattern. It is a pattern of patterns. It is that metapattern which defines the vast generalization that, indeed, it is patterns which connect."[2]
Tyler Volk
As Volk explains in his prologue, "I was fortunate to have studied with Bateson while he was writing Mind and Nature. It was the autumn of 1977, and he was a scholar-in-residence at the Lindisfarne Association in New York City."[5] At that time, Volk was teaching "Visual Science" and "Patterns in Time" as science and humanities courses at the School of Visual Arts.
Volk describes ten metapatterns: Spheres, Sheets/Tubes, Borders, Binaries, Centers, Layers, Calendars, Arrows, Breaks, and Cycles. Education collaborator Jeff Bloom developed a metapatterns website[6] exploring these themes.
Pieter Wisse
The Dutch computer scientist Pieter Wisse proposed a method called Metapattern for
References
- ^ Bateson, Gregory (1979). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: Dutton
- ^ Bateson, Gregory (1979). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences).
- ISBN 9780231067515.
- ^ Volk, Tyler,(1995) Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, page viii-ix
- ^ Volk, Tyler,(1996) Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, page viii
- ^ "Welcome to Metapatterns: The Pattern Underground Wiki - Metapatterns".
- ^ Wisse, Pieter (2000), Metapattern: Context and Time in Information Models, Addison-Wesley; 1st edition
External links
- Metapatterns wikidot
- Pieter Wisse: Metapattern Primer