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Everything that maintains itself — a star, a cell, a company, a habit — does so by running two operations over and over. This article derives the complete framework from first principles. No prior knowledge required. Four parts, one chain of reasoning.
Consider how science works. A researcher observes something unexpected — a disturbance. She gathers data, reads prior work, forms a preliminary picture. Then she commits to a hypothesis. She builds an experiment, tests it, discards what fails, selects what survives. She publishes — the work encounters the world.
That sequence is the same sequence a star follows from gas cloud to main sequence. The same sequence a cell follows from signal to division. It is not a metaphor. It is one geometry, expressed in different materials.
Begin reading →All papers published on Zenodo with DOIs. The framework belongs to everyone who studies it.
Generative Geometry was developed by Raimo van der Klein over twenty-five years of observing change in teams, organisations, and systems. The pattern was discovered empirically, formalised structurally, and tested quantitatively across seven scientific domains.
Van der Klein is COO of Pacmed (AI-powered hospital capacity management) and co-founder of Layar (world's first mobile AR browser, 40M+ users). The book Riding Change presents the framework for a general audience.
This is an independent research programme. It is not affiliated with any university or institution. The work is published open-access and the tools are freely available. The geometry belongs to everyone who studies it.