ABSTRACT
Herbert Simon's work helped shape institutional analysis, which played an essential role in mainstreaming resilience approaches. This chapter seeks to design that lies at the heart of resilience. Because many readers may be unfamiliar with Herbert Simon's work, it begins by reviewing two of his major theoretical contributions: his theory of bounded rationality and his understanding of complexity's hierarchical structure. The chapter explores these concepts' formative influence on resilience proponents' understandings of panarchy and adaptive management. It discusses Simon's work within the broader context of cybernetics and the aesthetic regime of modern design. Simon's arguments on the "sciences of the artificial" are particularly important, for they explicitly link his theories of hierarchy and bounded rationality with a modernist design aesthetic. The chapter concludes by examining how this aesthetic introduces a new relation between truth and control in both Simon's thought and ecological resilience theory.
