Infrastructure · Dynamics
Formelt
A structure loses its organising boundaries while its components remain
Definition
Mechanism
Divisions, roles or relationships that gave components a stable arrangement become less definite or less effective while the components persist, so the prior form loosens, which can lead to dissolution, confusion or a new arrangement. The loosening is in an organising relation or boundary, not only in the components; a direct change from one well-defined arrangement to another need not include it.
Invariants
- The components of a structure persist.
- The boundaries or relations that organised them become less definite or less effective.
Risks
Failure modes
Loosening read as destruction
loss of the previous form is equated with loss of all capacity.
Change read as decay
every rearrangement is called a decline.
Old form preferred
the previous boundaries are treated as better by default.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference