Thanks to the Crisis Response Journal for the invitation to write another article. Making the water visible explains the methodology I used when researching / writing Catastrophe and Systemic Change. It could be used as a framework for exploring any complex domain.

Making the Water Visible: A methodology for exploring complex domains

Below is a PDF version of the article.

Systemic Change in complex Times

And here is a link to the previous article Systemic Change in complex times. The two articles compelment one another.

The penguin pool

And finally some resources about the penguin pool which was a source of inspiration.

The London Zoo Penguin Pool is regarded as a landmark project, both in terms of architectural design and engineering. Arthitect Berthold Lubetkin and structural engineer Ove Arup pioneerd the use of casting concrete slabs in situ in complex, load-bearing forms.

The pool has been empty for 15 years. The reasons are not as simple as first appears.

FeinFinch, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Background on wiki architectura…

Penguin pool at the London zoo

Dezeen article about the call by the artchitects daughter to ‘blow the pool to smithereens.’

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/01/08/penguin-pool-london-zoo-berthold-lubetkin-debate-uk-architecture-news/

And John Allan (an architect who worked on refurbising the pool) response to the issue in The Standard.

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/letters/the-reader-penguin-pool-surely-has-not-had-its-day-a4032146.html

Further background and some you tube clips.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/circling-the-drain-what-to-do-with-london-zoos-deserted-penguin-pool/

Thanks for reading!