The proceedings of PURPLSOC 2017 are now available online. The volume gathers the work presented in Krems in October 2017 and offers a broad view of current pattern research and practice.
The contributions travel across education, media, software development, management, pedagogy, health care, politics, social innovation, integration, art, personal development, and design. Taken together, they represent more than twenty domains, from anthropology and automation to political science and systems science.
The book was edited by Richard Sickinger, Peter Baumgartner, and Tina Gruber Muecke, and published in 2018 by Edition Donau Universitaet Krems. Electronic editions can be read without charge, and printed copies can be ordered through the publisher.
The pattern language approach is often described as a common language for a fragmented world. The 2017 volume is the clearest single demonstration of that claim so far.