Theoretical Background

The pages listed here develop the theoretical background for metapatterns and other transdisciplinary patterns. Some of these pages may contain pertinent video presentations.

Pages and/or Articles:

• Metapatterns Overview: A survey in words and images by Jeff Bloom

• Tyler Volk's Video Series on Metapatterns

• Symmetry and Pattern by William Bateson — an excerpt from his Study of Variation… (1894)

• Paper: "The Use of Metapatterns for Research into Complex Systems of Teaching, Learning, and Schooling. Part 1: Metapatterns in Nature and Culture", Tyler Volk and Jeff Bloom, Complicity, 4, 25-43, 2007.

• References