SSC · School of Systems & Complexity

Interactive experiments

Complexity is easier to understand when you can break it yourself.

Change a parameter. Remove a node.Add a delay. Change a rule.

Watch the system do something you did not expect.

Not models of the world, but models for exploring it.

Start with something simple ↓

01

Start with something simple.

Simple rules do not necessarily produce predictable futures.

The Pendulum

How long before two almost-identical worlds become different?

Three-Body Problem

Can exact rules still produce an unpredictable future?

Attractors and Chaos

Can the future be unpredictable and still have structure?

When Societies Bifurcate

When does a small change create a different kind of behaviour?

02

But unpredictability is only the beginning.

What happens depends not only on who is there, but on how they are connected.

How Networks Work

What changes when the same people are connected differently?

Who Created This Pattern?

How can mild local preferences create a divided neighbourhood?

03

And nobody has to be in charge.

Collective patterns can emerge from local interaction.

Nobody Is in Charge

Can a group coordinate when nobody knows the plan?

The Commons

When does a shared resource remain healthy — and when does it collapse?

04

So we intervene.

And the intervention becomes part of the system.

The Delay Trap

Why can correcting harder make a system less stable?

Conflict System Dynamics

Why does the timing of an intervention change its effect?

Polarisation Dynamics

Can the same intervention help at one moment and harm at another?

05

You were never outside the system.

You Are in the System

A guided sequence of experiments about prediction, structure, intervention and participation.

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