Mini Symposium 2024 Sep 28 - Jessie Henshaw
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General Systems View of Systems In-Context GST/n And Discovering the Genome of Language
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Short Bio
Jessie Lydia Henshaw Today, Jessie is an empirical systems scientist and consultant. She uses her physics to help illuminate the designs of nature in context, opening a viable path for science to begin studying self-animating systems of nature as physical subjects in context, i.e., "natural systems." Early on, she noticed that theory and data might get it all wrong, but that contrast could also illuminate the world of natural system designs too. After all, it is reading nature’s signals of design and change that we rely on to get along today, too, as humans did throughout our long evolution.
Jessie did her schooling in the Public school in the small town of Hamilton, New York; Studying physics, math, Russian, sports, art, and theater at St Lawrence University; three years based in Brooklyn with post-college friends connected with a farm in Tennessee, group travel and experiments, and redeveloping the 1892 Earlville Opera house as rural arts and culture center, while trying out new academic and employment options. For grad school, she put physics aside, looking for something creative, and found an inspirational three years at the University of Pennsylvania Architecture and Landscape Design School, where one of the first genius voices of modern architecture, Louis I. Kahn, led the school. After graduating in a recession, she decided to travel, visiting friends and running out of money in Denver, taking work as a carpenter, then contracting some. Sharing a house gave her resources and time to do the microclimate field work that changed her life. In the '80s, she started her architectural career, paying dues for years and advancing to work on prestige jobs with fine firms: Beyer Blinder Belle, Gwathmey Siegel, Rockwell, KPF, H3., continuing new systems science at nights and weekends when the architecture wasn't taking nights and weekends.