Tensegrity is seen as an applied mechanical concept of
synergetics, and the inspiration for it, by those who use the
term synergetics or apply tensegrity beyond the physical. See
also biotensegrity for the body oriented view of the phenomena.
Synergetics seeks to explain formation and self-organization of
patterns and structures in open systems far from thermodynamic
equilibrium. Any self-organizing system has a 'macroscopic'
system of many nonlinearly interacting subsystems. Depending on
the external control parameters (environment, energy-fluxes)
self-organization takes place.  Order-parameter concept
Ginzburg-Landau theory or order-parameter concepts describe
phase-transitions in thermodynamics. It was generalized in two
different ways. First, by Haken to the enslaving principle
saying that the dynamics of fast-relaxing (stable) modes is
completely determined by the 'slow' dynamics of (as a rule) only
a few 'order-parameters' (unstable modes). The order parameters
can be interpreted as the amplitudes of th