Abstract
E DIT OR I A L 3 3 Andrzej Zarzycki, Issue Editor When Kurt Gödel proposed the Incompleteness Theorem in 1931, it did not catch the New Jersey Institute of Technolog y popular imagination to the same extent as Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The cur- vature of space, the time-space continuum, and the possibility of time travel unquestionably inspired the general public. However, Gödel’s ideas were as disruptive and paradigm chang- ing as Einstein’s. They...
E DIT OR I A L 3 3 Andrzej Zarzycki, Issue Editor When Kurt Gödel proposed the Incompleteness Theorem in 1931, it did not catch the New Jersey Institute of Technolog y popular imagination to the same extent as Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The cur- vature of space, the time-space continuum, and the possibility of time travel unquestionably inspired the general public. However, Gödel’s ideas were as disruptive and paradigm chang- ing as Einstein’s. They demonstrated that in any suf ficiently complex system there are true statements that cannot be proven, which meant that one would need to step outside that system to validate those statements. This, in turn, pointed to a larger interconnected nature of human knowledge, knowledge that escapes self-containment and self-referencing. My personal reading of the theorem—that limitations within a particular discipline or field can only be solved by engaging with and learning from other disciplines—necessi - tates a view of architecture as highly integrated with broader technological, scientific, and engineering practices. In this context, technology becomes a field condition that fosters viral interactions and knowledge transfers. It not only is transparent and omnipresent, as Mark Clayton reminds us in his position piece for this
Technology Architecture + Design – Taylor & Francis
Published: May 1, 2017
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