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In this chapter we discuss how the use of Organizational Cybernetics (OC) helps to identify the variety of needs to be considered in a planning-related intervention in a university campus and to influence the project design in such a way that the variety of services responding to these needs will also be increased. After a short description of some OC concepts and of the systemic methodological framework that has been used in this work, we present examples of application of this framework in four urbanistic and architectonic interventions on the UDC campuses.
It is taken for granted that in actual design form should be used to reinforce meaning, and not to negate it (K. Lynch 1960, p. 46).
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This work has been supported in part by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Plan Nacional de I+D+i) of Spain. Ref.: CSO2010-15745. The authors also wish to thank Christian Walloth for his thoughtful and precise suggestions.
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Martínez Suárez, X.L., Ríos, J.P. (2014). An Organizational Cybernetics Approach to University Planning in an Urban Context: Four Intervention Experiences. In: Walloth, C., Gurr, J., Schmidt, J. (eds) Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Modeling. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02996-2_7
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