Tips for Sparking Emergent ConversationEmergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise

out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.

Food for Thought: • What are examples of emergence

can you think of? • What are some things in common

with all these examples of emergence?

• Where are some of the spaces you see emergence happening in your life?

• Why is it that sometimes-beautiful things are created from chaos and other times nothing forms?

• What inspires an emergent environment?

• What empowers people to build and create?

Inspiration and resources: • TED Talk Child-Driven Education:

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education

• Radiolab on Emergence: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/

• The Fractals at the Heart of African Design: http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals

• PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/emergence.html

• TED Talk The Emergent Genius of Ant Colonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukS4UjCauUs

Ex….Snowflakes, cities, whirlpools, rock formations, education, crowdsourcing, jazz……….