IlliGAL Blogging

I'm blogging live from Stephen Lu's ECN Workshop (Engineering as Collaborative Negotiation) in Shanghai. Stephen has also discovered postmodern thinking (see here) & Searle (see DEG 2004 paper here and Searle post here) and its relevancy to a new kind of systems engineering. Stephen's view is that to put people appropriately in the loop that we need to think of engineering activities as a kind of negotiated process among various stakeholders. I endorse the point of view, and although negotiation may be a bit limiting as a term, the intent is spot on. The schedule is an interesting one and the discussion has been quite interesting to this point. Hod Lipson's discussion of negotiation as co-evolution was particularly stimulating. Keep an eye on ECN and Lu's work.