An ecotone is a region where two ecological systems overlap. In that overlap, there is a tension. The word is derived from ecology, in English and _tonos_, meaning tension, in Greek.
Think of a river flowing in the ocean. An entire ecology based on fresh water meeting another, based on salt water. One that is in flux with the tides. A tension that unsettles and creates the conditions for change.
Ecotones are not just areas of tension, but of potential. In the stress and of these overlapping areas, there is the possibility of new creation.
Where ideas of the imagination co-mingle with tension in an Emergent Whitespace.
Places where new patterns of understanding mysteriously manifest in an evolving Semantic Network.
Where we, as makers, are vitalized by us as creators, giving our work meaning, making us whole – the precondition for emergent Autopoietic Systems.
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