"Defines the systems builder's medium as the configuration of relationships between things, designed to evoke emotional states of clarity, relief, and peace."
Systems as Art
The perspective that building operational architectures and configuring relationships between entities is a creative artistic medium designed to produce clarity, order, and peace.
Where This Idea Comes From
Defined in "Systems as Art: The Architecture of Order and the Myth of the Blank Canvas" — the argument that configuring the relationships between entities in a business is itself a creative medium, not just an operational necessity.