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The Otaniemi Campus Development and Ecological Sustainability: Perceiving the Environment of a Complex Adaptive System

The Otaniemi Campus Development and Ecological Sustainability: Perceiving the Environment of a Complex Adaptive System

Katri-Liisa Pulkkinen, Aija Staffans
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 12
ISSN: 2327-3984|EISSN: 2327-3992|EISBN13: 9781466656796|DOI: 10.4018/ijss.2014070103
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Pulkkinen, Katri-Liisa, and Aija Staffans. "The Otaniemi Campus Development and Ecological Sustainability: Perceiving the Environment of a Complex Adaptive System." IJSS vol.1, no.2 2014: pp.39-50. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijss.2014070103

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Pulkkinen, K. & Staffans, A. (2014). The Otaniemi Campus Development and Ecological Sustainability: Perceiving the Environment of a Complex Adaptive System. International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS), 1(2), 39-50. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijss.2014070103

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Pulkkinen, Katri-Liisa, and Aija Staffans. "The Otaniemi Campus Development and Ecological Sustainability: Perceiving the Environment of a Complex Adaptive System," International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 1, no.2: 39-50. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijss.2014070103

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Abstract

No building or neighbourhood is an island but a constantly changing complex adaptive system produced by many contemporaneous, mostly interconnected and parallel but sometimes also conflicting processes. By using the development of Aalto University Campus, Finland, as an example of such a complex adaptive system in the course of change processes, the article demonstrates the challenge of transforming the production of our urban environment to truly meet the goals of sustainable development. Ecological sustainability is here understood as the need for regeneration, which is proposed as necessary in the current state of the planet. The article uses the concept of the perceived systemic environment and argues for its paradigmatic role in this context. Perceptions of the systemic environment affect and steer the actual goal setting of the stakeholders/actors in the system and can either enhance or even override the transition towards sustainability. The article suggests a way to steer the change towards a more regenerative perception of the systemic environment.

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