1. From Problem-solving to Co-ontogenic Drift: How do Learning Narratives Self-Generate? The term co-ontogenic drift was coined from the language of the pioneering biologist Humberto Maturana and the work of cybernetician Francisco Varela
2. Inner responsiveness of an embodied and contextually situated self A Move Into an Active Learning Experience of Possibilities
5. Focus is on ‘logic‘ of relationships to develop a situated self through a felt awareness of a shared environment. The intra-action within the learner and the inter-action between the learner and the environment contribute to the field of embodiment. The environment ( the wave pattern) interacts with the system-in-progress, the designer (circle), which includes other systems/people. Social interactions occur in which they mutually influence each other in a consensual domain where new patterns are created.
6. For deep learning to take place structural changes come into play. In a living systems approach, a network of relationships develop that opposes a hierarchical command and allows for communication between people and between people and objects to develop.
7. ‘ When a living system reaches out to its environment, it is as if the system is drifting in the medium formed by its holistic environment, which, in human terms is all- inclusive.’ An organism selects behaviours according to what it knows at the time.
8. ‘ Evolution is a natural drift, a product of the conservation of autopoiesis [self-generation] and adaptation’ which sums up the relationship-of-discovery between operationally closed (autopoiesis) and structurally open. Co-ontogenic drift in our context of design happens when we enter into a network of co-creation.
9. We allow for structural changes and the co-emergence of new worlds of meaning and a constructed reality enacting a symbiotic collective.
10. Ontogenic drift is a biological and natural process of change in a system since it points to a continual selection of what is at hand and it leads to possibilities inherent in the idea of co-creation.
11. Caring for the Earth: Design moving from existing independently to an experience of co-existence.
12. The process was self-generating and lines and planes were allowed to develop into unexpected forms.
13. ‘ Co-drifting has a certain meaning for each of us which arises in our doing together.’ Our drift is not a reaction to representations, but a creation of the story of our movement through the world.
14. Knowledge is always created as a form of movement. In the creative process, the consciousness of the self is primarily involved in its cognitive state
15. ‘ Our lecturer has been our facilitator, merely acting as a constructive perturbing unit. She does not determine the exact direction of the drift or growth [and yet] as a consequence of her experience she could trigger drift in all areas of our development where it was most relevant and essential’.