engineering · technical
Organized design and construction that make structured products.
Examples
- The International Space Station's modular design allowed assembly in orbit over 1998–2011 by 16 nations. engineering
- The Hoover Dam, completed in 1936, channels Colorado River flow to generate 4.2 billion kWh annually. infrastructure
- Linux kernel development began in 1991 as a collaborative codebase for open-source operating systems. computing
Emergence
through: Design and construction work together through the formation of persistent structural arrangements to produce goods.
- persistent structural order
- functional integration
- artifact purpose
Chain to foundations
as tree
- engineeringL10
- designL9
- structureL2
- goalL6
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- patternL0 (shown above)
- needL5
- workL3
- orderL8
- partL1 (shown above)
- constructionL5
- makeL4 (shown above)
- organizedL3
- productsL3
- structureL2 (shown above)
- designL9
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | process.general | is-a |