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Living Systems: repair, reconnect, grow
A way of connecting architectural, civic and development questions without forcing them into one project.
Working framework
- Date / period
- 2026
- Place
- Independent inquiry
- Contribution
- Adam Scott
Repair asks what is damaged or neglected. Reconnect asks which relationships have been separated. Grow asks what new capacity would help a place remain useful over time. Repeating the cycle makes room for correction.
Place, people, systems and intelligence are lenses for inquiry. A building, a neighborhood and the structures of stewardship operate at different scales; no single drawing resolves them all.
The thesis tests architectural possibilities. Living Ground tests a possible implementation role. Coursework should first be understood on its own terms, then used to ask better questions elsewhere.
This is a personal working framework, newly summarized for the website. It is not an empirical theory or a previously published essay.
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The working framework
An excerpt from the original document makes the recurring questions and lenses visible.
Excerpt from the original Living Systems working document: Repeat and the four lenses of Place, People, Systems and Intelligence. A personal inquiry framework, not a tested empirical model.
Adam Scott.