Metapattern is a term coined by several authors for several concepts.

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...

 coined the term Metapattern described by environmental scientist Tyler Volk

Tyler Volk

Tyler Volk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at New York University. Volk is an active proponent of the Gaia hypothesis. A 1989 study, co-authored by Volk, published in the journal Nature asserts that without the cooling effects of living things, Earth would be 80 degrees...

 in Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind. Metapatterns are, loosely, patterns of patterns. In other words, a pattern so wide-flung that it appears throughout the spectrum of reality: in clouds, rivers, and planets; in cells, organisms, and ecosystems; in art and architecture, and politics. They are functional universals for forms in space, processes in time, and concepts in mind. Volk describes ten such patterns: Spheres, Sheets/Tubes, Borders, Binaries, Centers, Layers, Calendars, Arrows, Breaks, and Cycles.

Pieter Wisse

The Dutch computer scientist Pieter Wisse proposed a method called Metapattern for conceptual modeling: with Metapattern you should be able to include context and time. The method is described in his book Metapattern context and time in information models and other papers.

External links

• Pieter Wisse: Metapattern Primer