Systems Engineering Practices Exhibited in the Creation of a Film Original Score

Salado, Alejandro; Salado, Carlos

doi:10.1002/j.2334-5837.2015.00121.x

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“…Researchers are also exploring similarities in the way systems engineering projects and major artistic endeavors are organized and executed. For example, the production of a film original score has been described in systems engineering terms (Salado & Salado, ). The authors describe the organization of the composing and production teams (e.g., composer, arranger, and orchestra), identify the different stakeholders (e.g., film director, scriptwriter, and audience), and the process and activities to create the artistic piece (e.g., analysis of dramatic structure, development of cue sheets, and composition of main leads).…”

Section: Similarities In Artistic Creations and Systems Engineering Pmentioning

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“…Without such a structured and strategic approach to composition, the authors presented an anecdote in which traditional songwriting processes failed to yield a valid film original score (Salado & Salado, ). This is parallel to engineering, where the increase in size and complexity of the products to be developed were key factors that made systems engineering emerge as a new discipline (Honour, ).…”

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A perspective on systems thinking, architecting, and art

McDermott

Salado

2019

Syst Res Behav Sci

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Systems architecture has been considered as both an art and a science. The systems architect uses heuristics, stories, and models to communicate complex architectural concepts to stakeholders. Since the earliest times, master building architects have developed their skills broadly across the technical, business, and fine art domains. Why should engineering be different? Principles and practices of systems architecture are exhibited in the creation of film scores, fine arts, and building architecture. Why not teach art as a core skill of the systems architect? In this work, we explore a formal competency model linking art, systems thinking, and systems architecture. We associate competencies across these domains with the concept of elegant design. We explore formal education in the arts as a way to bridge the communication problems that technical architects have with their stakeholders. The goal is to improve the competencies of systems architects and systems thinkers by bringing the methods of the art studio class to systems education.

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A perspective on systems thinking, architecting, and art

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Salado

2019

Syst Res Behav Sci

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“…This is the third in a series of papers describing characteristics of that linkage. The first discussed how principles and practices of systems engineering are exhibited in the composition of a film original score, which focused on reducing complexity (Salado and Salado, 2015). The second discussed methods used by master painters to reduce effective complexity (Salado, Iandoli, and Zollo, 2016).…”

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Improving the Systems Thinking Skills of the Systems Architect via Aesthetic Interpretation of Art

McDermott

Salado

2017

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Systems engineering has been considered for a long time both an art and a science. In fact, previous work has shown that principles and practices of systems engineering are exhibited in the creation of a film original score, a major artistic endeavor, and that some of the concepts employed in artistic painting to convey beauty are also used by system architects to reduce complexity and achieve elegance. Reflecting on the authors' experience as practitioners and educators of systems thinking and systems architecting, this paper discusses a common linkage between art and systems engineering through a third discipline, systems thinking, which has a unique role in helping us understand the dynamic nature of complex systems. Then we elaborate a learning model that relates art, systems thinking, and systems architecture, which results in a number of propositions to improve the systems thinking skills of systems architects via learning aesthetic interpretation of art.

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“…In particular, system architecting, which enables structuring a problem into manageable pieces, is instrumental in identifying and using patterns that yield good, simple, elegant architectures [9][10][11]. Thus, both aesthetic experience and engineering systems architecture seem to have in common the objective of reducing complexity and recent work related to the application of systems engineering practices to artistic composition shows that these two perspectives can be successfully integrated [12].…”

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Elegance as Complexity Reduction in Systems Design

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Elegance is often invoked as a characteristic of good design, but it cannot be pursued as a design objective because of the absence of actionable definitions that can be translated into design strategies and metrics. In this work, we analyze elegance in the context of systems engineering using a perspective that integrates visual art, Gestalt psychology, neuroscience, and complexity theory. In particular, we measure elegance as effective complexity and theorize that it can be achieved by a process of complexity resolution based on the adoption of eight visual heuristics. We present an empirical study in which a sample of systems engineers were asked to assess alternative representations of a same system and show that effective complexity is strongly correlated to perceived elegance and systems effectiveness. Our results are consistent with independent findings obtained in other fields including design and psychology of perception showing that good design must embed an effective level of complexity achievable through a mix of familiarity and novelty.

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Systems Engineering Practices Exhibited in the Creation of a Film Original Score

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

A perspective on systems thinking, architecting, and art

A perspective on systems thinking, architecting, and art

Improving the Systems Thinking Skills of the Systems Architect via Aesthetic Interpretation of Art

Elegance as Complexity Reduction in Systems Design

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