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UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning4Week Two: Utility Systems:One Hour Discussion and Presentation relating to major support systems necessary to supportneighborhoods. How is this basic “Infrastructure support network taxed or how could it be augmentedto support a better neighborhood. Examples, Energy, Water, Sanitation, Storm Water,Utilities EnergyTelecomPowerRenewable

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UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning6Potable WaterIrrigation WaterSanitation SewerStorm WaterOutcomes of Week Two, will be an understanding and documentation how these infrastructuresystems are managed and designed to be dependend ina realtime model. Each of these primary utilitysystems will become more regionalized in most areasand with that will be opportunities for innovationlooking at how these systems interconnect. Addressing basic utility infrastructure into the proposalwillshow opportunities with these types of innovation.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning7Week Three: Main Buildings Facility TypesDuring week three the main ideas of using a 3d modeling tool are covered. Using Sketchup and KMLfiles for geo location are explored. How to augmenta neighborhood using libraries, and build a collectivemodel with specific building types are explored.Hospital (Building Type)

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning8Box Store (Building Type)The instruction for using Sketchup will allow the “sharing of these building types. This will allow forgroup model building.Demonstration and Questions regarding building withsketchup will be covered. Further investigationregarding using kml files to locate specific buildings into Google Earth model will be demonstrated aswell as utility infrastructure alignments.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning9Sketchup Tutorials:Week Four Community Activity: Learning, Making, Purchasing, Visiting, Worshiping, Shopping,Repairing,,Studying, Working, Mentoring, Gardening,Documenting the IDEAL condition:a)Prepare a 10 image powerpoint presentation what arethe human qualities needed to conducteach of these community activities. Define the method to asses how a neighborhood cancapture these specific types of Assets.b)How is a figure ground relationship developed. Understand how the scale of the neighborhoodis experienced. Line of Site, Smell, Physical Experience.c)Several websites likewww.trulia.comare giving Walkability Maps showing how within a shortdistance “Activity types “ are available. What areother “Benefits to the community “ availablein this WEB virtual environment.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning10Week Five Natural SystemsThe intent of week Five investigation is to show the numerous natural systems that extendacross neighborhoods that should be “digitally “ documented. This system is underpinningconcept for Week Six System Dynamics. Through thisexploration qualities of neighborhoodsand their direct interconnection with natural systems will be identified.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning11Measure – Value-Design

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning12Week Six: System DynamicsOverviewSystem dynamics is a computer-aided approach to policy analysis and design. It applies todynamic problems arising in complex social, managerial, economic, or ecological systems --literally any dynamic systems characterized by interdependence, mutual interaction, informationfeedback, and circular causality.The field developed initially from the work of JayW. Forrester. His seminal book IndustrialDynamics (Forrester 1961) is still a significant statement of philosophy and methodology in thefield. Within ten years of its publication, the span of applications grew from corporate andindustrial problems to include the management of research and development, urban stagnationand decay, commodity cycles, and the dynamics of growth in a finite world. It is now applied ineconomics, public policy, environmental studies, defense, theory-building in social science, andother areas, as well as its home field, management.The name industrial dynamics no longerdoes justice to the breadth of the field, so it hasbecome generalized to system dynamics. Themodern name suggests links to other systems methodologies, but the links are weak andmisleading. System dynamics emerges out of servomechanisms engineering, not generalsystems theory or cybernetics (Richardson 1991).The system dynamics approach involves:•Defining problems dynamically, in terms of graphs over time.•Striving for an endogenous, behavioral view of thesignificant dynamics of a system, afocus inward on the characteristics of a system that themselves generate or exacerbate theperceived problem.•Thinking of all concepts in the real system as continuous quantities interconnected inloops of information feedback and circular causality.•Identifying independent stocks or accumulations (levels) in the system and their inflowsand outflows (rates).•Formulating a behavioral model capable of reproducing, by itself, the dynamic problemof concern. The model is usually a computer simulation model expressed in nonlinearequations, but is occasionally left unquantified asa diagram capturing the stock-and-flow/causal feedback structure of the system.•Deriving understandings and applicable policy insights from the resulting model.•Implementing changes resulting from model-based understandings and insights.http://www.systemdynamics.org/what_is_system_dynamics.html#structureGroup Model Building;A current direction within the field is the use ofmodel-based insights for organizational learning,represented most forcefully in Senge (1990) and Morecroft and Sterman (1994). The important neweffort to build models with relatively large groupsof experts and stakeholders, known as group modelbuilding, is described in Vennix (1996) and Richardson and Andersen (2010).

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning13ReferencesFord, A. 2009. Modeling the Environment. Washington, DC: Island Press.Forrester, J.W. 1961. Industrial Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Reprinted byPegasusCommunications, Waltham, MA.Forrester, J.W. 1969. Urban Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Reprinted by PegasusCommunications,Waltham, MA.Maani, K. E. and R. Y. Cavana. 2007. Systems Thinking, System Dynamics: UnderstandingChange and Complexity.Aukland: Printice Hall.Morecroft, J. D. W. 2007. Strategic Modeling and Business Dynamics: a Feedback SystemsApproach. Chichester:Wiley.Morecroft, J. D. W. and J. D. Sterman, Eds. 1994. Modeling for Learning Organizations. SystemDynamics Series.Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications.Richardson, G.P. 1991/1999. Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory.Philadelphia: University ofPennsylvania Press; reprinted by Pegasus Communications, Waltham, MA.Richardson, G.P., Ed. 1996. Modelling for Management: Simulation in Support of SystemsThinking. InternationalLibrary of Management. Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth Publishing Company.Richardson, G.P. and D. F. Andersen. 2010. SystemsThinking, Mapping, and Modeling forGroup Decision andNegotiation, Handbook for Group Decision and Negotiation, C Eden and DN Kilgour, eds.Dordrecht:Springer, 2010, pp. 313-324.Richardson, G.P. and A.L. Pugh III. 1981. Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling withDYNAMO. Cambridge,MA: The MIT Press. Reprinted by Pegasus Communications, Waltham, MA.Roberts, E.B. 1978, ed. Managerial Applications ofSystem Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: TheMIT Press. Reprintedby Pegasus Communications, Waltham, MA.Senge, P.M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. NewYork:Doubleday/Currency.Sterman, J.D. 2000. Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a ComplexWorld. Boston: IrwinMcGraw-Hill.System Dynamics Review. 1985-present. Chichester,U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, Ltd.Vennix, J. A. M. 1996. Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using SystemDynamics. Chichester:Wiley.Wolstenholme, E.F. 1990. System Enquiry: a SystemDynamics Approach. Chichester, U.K.:John Wiley & Sons,Ltd.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning14The purpose of all architecture, writes ChristopherAlexander, is to encourage and support life-givingactivity, dreams, and playfulness. But in recent decades, while our buildings are technically better--moresturdy, more waterproof, more energy efficient-- they have also became progressively more sterile,rarely providing the kind of environment in which people are emotionally nourished, genuinely happy,and deeply contented.Using the example of his building of the Eishin Campus in Japan, Christopher Alexander and hiscollaborators reveal an ongoing dispute between twofundamentally different ways of shaping ourworld. One system places emphasis on subtleties, onfinesse, on the structure of adaptation that makeseach tiny part fit into the larger context. The other system is concerned with efficiency, with money,power and control, stressing the more gross aspectsof size, speed, and profit. This second, "business-as-usual" system, Alexander argues, isincapableof creating the kind of environment that is able togenuinely support the emotional, whole-making sideof human life. To confront this sterile system, thebook presents a new architecture that we--both as aworld-wide civilization, and as individual peopleand cultures--can create, using new processes thatallow us to build places of human energy and beauty.The book outlines nineways of working, each one fully dedicated to wholeness, and able to supportday-to-day activities that will make planning, design and construction possible in an entirely new way,and in more humane ways.During week Three investigation was made regardingbuilding types, during week Fourinvestigation was made with Community Activities.Alignment between these two requirementsis necessary to see the extent of Diversity and Useof these types of requirements for healthycommunity activity.Outcome of Week 6 is how Change or Event Driven Modeling requires a type of Dependencydiagram. Students will understand causation modelsaffecting the Balance inside of complexstructures. This helps the students’ position their proposal reflecting on this dependency model.

UCLA Extension Program; World Peace One Virtual Community Action Planning15Each student will present a motion graphic predicated on the dependency model they havedeveloped during week 6. This motion graphic willhelp students look at weighted relationshipswith their proposal. Example Phenakistoscope, Thaumatrope, Stroboscope, Zoetrope, Flip Book.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4B3FHHt_k8Week Seven BLOG TechnologyPulling the presentation together will require understanding how to use BLOG technology. Theidea of Archiving and Disseminating a Community Action Proposal will be used. Providing theArchive of investigation and showing the integratedsystem.The intent of Week 7 is to prepare the presentationpulling together the investigation conductedduring the 6 previous weeks. There are several tools that can be implemented to prepare thepresentation. Intent of the presentation is to show how Existing Data, Constructed Data, aremerged together. This is often titled Mashups. These Mashups will document community basedobservations regarding specific Community Action Propsals.https://blogs.ethz.ch/plastic-river/about/Week Eight Final Presentation;During Week Eight each student will have completedtheir BLOG for Community Action Proposal. ThisBlog will be launch point for a Process to Activatethe actual World Peace One project. Through A seriesof Conversations the Blog will identify a collective larger community project and how“The keys to the success of group modelingbuilding efforts appear to be engaging stakeholders, sharing mental models formally,assembling and managing complexity, using simulation to test scenarios and support orrefute hypotheses, working toward alignment, and empowering people to haveconfidence in the strategies that emerge