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Just as Christopher Alexander’s ultimate goal is to enlighten architects and improve their products for society’s sake, incorporating the wholeness theory into systems development can have similar benefits to society’s information systems. The following discussion explores an approach informed by the theory of wholeness and life.
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Waguespack, L.J. (2010). Building Life into Information Systems. In: Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-302-2_5
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