Tensegrity

A structural relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviours of the system, and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviours. It provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder. The integrity of the whole structure is invested in the finitely closed, tensional-embracement network, within which the compressions are local islands. Tension is omnidirectionally coherent and tensegrity is an inherently nonredundant confluence of optimum structural-effort effectiveness factors. All structures (from the solar system to the atom) are tensegrity structures, when properly understood. Of human societal structures that must correspond to the concept of tensegrity, theoretical communism is closest. Of non human societal structures corresponding, the termite nest or ant hill, are analagous. The desired omnidirectional, comprehensively continuous distribution of tensional energy in tensegrity social engineering is akin to the omnidirectional distribution of energy in a disorganized or chaotic system whose homeostatic dynamics and self-differentiation have been overcome by entropy.