Recent discussion and research in systems engineering have highlighted the need for a
principled approach to attaining elegance in engineered systems, in order to enhance …

Despite elegance being universally recognized as a goal for system design, there is little
guidance in the related research and literature that is relevant to the design, development, or …

The meaning and relevance of elegance in system architecture and design is considered.
After establishing its desirability, elegance is defined by two criteria common to complex …

This paper proposes that beauty is a useful guiding principle for systems engineering.
Integral Theory, a school of philosophy founded by Ken Wilber, suggests that systems …

Publisher Summary Aesthetic values are difficult to define and to identify in engineering
activities for several reasons. One reason is that the professional aesthetics discourse is …

Despite the rising interest in developing elegant systems an integral definition of elegance in
system architecture and design is lacking. Current attempts have only been able to describe …

Elegance is often invoked as a characteristic of good design, but it cannot be pursued as a
design objective because of the absence of actionable definitions that can be translated into …

The current dominant mode of design for addressing the environmental and social crisis
rests on an approach of prevention, which is predominantly based on the logic of efficiency …

The contributions to this handbook show that technology is not value neutral, as is often
thought. In this chapter, we argue that the inherent value-ladenness of technology evokes …

In this paper I speak directly to the subject matter of this conference: to its theme of
flourishing, and to the subject areas of systems thinking and design that this conference …