Media

Marks, recordings, and background for anyone writing about PURPLSOC.

Identity

The PURPLSOC mark.

The mark is a small lattice of interlocking rings: a reminder that a pattern language is built from parts that gain meaning through their relations. It is available as a scalable vector file.

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Please keep the mark intact and do not present it as an endorsement of unrelated work.

Watch and listen

Recordings from the series.

Video notes and introductions are collected in the blog. Each entry explains the context and the speaker.

Keynote: Beauty in Architecture

Max Jacobson on Christopher Alexander's search for beauty in the built environment.

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A Pattern Primer

Richard Sickinger gives a short introduction at the Newcomers Fair.

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A Look Back at 2017

The second world conference in numbers, themes, and reflections.

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Press notes

Quick background.

PURPLSOC stands for Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change.
The series began with a workshop in 2014 and a first world conference in 2015.
The second world conference took place in Krems, Austria, from October 19 to 21, 2017.
Seventy participants from thirteen countries attended, with fifty one abstracts in the programme.
Three open access volumes have been published.

Venue

The conferences are hosted by Danube University Krems in Austria.

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