Complex Systems Summer School 2011-TShirts

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A first idea

Hi! An idea for a T-shirt, just to start the creative process flowing, I guess.

What I noticed about former years (very cool) T-shirst, was that they were all focusing on one common theme. They had a network, or this chaos-picture in it. So they were focussed on representing Santa Fe or a complex System in some way - and off course this is what binds us all together.

My idea is, that maybe it would be cool if we would take a slightly different approach: instead of emphasizing what we all have in common, emphasizing how diverse our backgrounds are (and still we find each other in this complex system theme).

One way of doing that, is that we would use a network of logo's which would represent us.

Everyone would have at least one logo he/she can link to, but preferably more. For instance, we can have a logo representing geography, or maps, or people, or (difficult one) policy, or transport. So it could be either about the field, the method, or the application. We could even act leisure activities like hiking, or sports, or... the possibilities are endless.

Then, everyone would chose however many logo's he/she feels linked to. Based on the number of links, this logo would get a more prominent place on the T-shirt (e.g. bigger picture), and the network in between would give the connections between the specialties - we could even change the pointsize of the line to correspond to the number of people having this link - e.g. between 'geography' and 'graph theory'.

The T-shirt would then represent all the things we together cover and study with complex systems. I think it could be pretty cool!

To succes, it would need some help from all/most of you, in coming up with the logo's but most importantly linking yourself to the chosen set of logo's (that would be approx 2 min, but still).

So, think about it, and if you have any other ideas, post them below!

-- That's a pretty neat idea. [whoever got this idea] for president! -AA