Fractal Design, Nesting Patterns

Fractal Design, Nesting Patterns

The Pattern:
Fractal design is seen in the tree of trees, or the vein structure of a leaf, or your circulatory system that moves from first order arteries all the way down to the smallest capillaries. Fractals can be described as patterns varying size yet similar form. These patterns can be seen as both nesting and or sequential in their form. It's the stream, the creeks and rivers. It's the ridges and the valleys. One very significant reason for this pattern is for the purpose of creating the maximum amount of edge habitat possible in the least amount of space. For this reason, we find very few, if any, straight lines in natural systems. The reason being that, the edge habitat between one environment and another is what hosts the maximum amount of life in the landscape.

The Principle:

• The most effective way to interface two environments is through fractal design. 
• Fractal design creates maximum amount of edge habitat in the smallest amount of space and the edge habitat hosts the maximum amount of diversified life forms. 
• It is the most effective, efficient and resilient way for the Kingdom of heaven to interface with the Earth. For producing the highest quality and most reliable outcome. 
• Fractal patterns offer a solution for both the micro-climate and the macro-climate through recursion (making it scalable). 
• Fractal design is the most appropriate framework for discipleship and offers natural accountability as a result of local long term relationships. Knowledge is highly transferable through fractal design and the process of recursion. 
• Fractal design is both sequential and cascading and compounding in effect. And it offers meaning and purpose for the individual as its currency. A sense of ownership is given to those who participate with fractal design or nesting patterns. 
• Fractal design deals in hope and mercy by extending purpose and meaning to the smallest and seemingly insignificant parts of life.
• It fosters a natural boldness in the decision making processes of life and human to human interactions or the relationships between living things when we participate with fractal design.

The Practice:

• Through fractals we design with a purpose of creating more and more edges or points of contact, within our landscapes and human to human interactions. 
• When developing a solution for a problem we want to find the smallest form of the same problem and develop a solution for that. Then we can scale up through recursion to the larger forms of the same problem. 
• We do not inconvenience ourselves with the big problem without wrestling with the same problem in its smaller form.