38 Of Coordination Law and Dynamical Landscape

The term dynamical landscape is a picturesque name for the 'big picture' view of Coordination Dynamics (CD). It's intended to conjure up an image of how all the phenomena modeled by the Coordination Law form a flexible, evolving terrain—a dynamical landscape. In other words, the flow of coordination behavior captured by the Coordination Law has an underlying, cohesive, predictable shape. Such dynamical landscapes of self-organizing, flexible, adaptable synergetic systems are affected by factors such as the heterogeneity of the individual coordinating elements and the coupling between them. And such factors change in time. Yet remarkably, they change in a way that can be understood and predicted by the Coordination Law.