Emergence = Much coming from Little (Holland)

“Something is happening in crying, for example, that goes beyond any strategic
‘work’ that the person may be ‘doing’ and that is not captured by discriminating
the interaction ‘practices’ the person’s behaviour demonstrates. Some sort of
feeling arises. Between oneself and the world there is a new term, a holistically
sensed, new texture in the social moment, and one relates to others in and
through that emergent and transforming body for experience. A kind of
metamorphosis occurs in which the self goes into a new container or takes on
a temporary flesh for the passage to an altered state of social being.”

in  Katz (1999), p343 cited in The Aesthetics of Emergence: processual architecture and an ethico-aesthetics of composition (p.24)  Pia Ednie-Brown

"..the problem of emergence itself. Simply put, this problem lies in a diffi cultly reconciling two apparently disjunct, but intrinsically connected and equally real occurrences: the
nature of the whole and the action of the parts".
in The Aesthetics of Emergence: processual architecture and an ethico-aesthetics of composition (p.41)  Pia Ednie-Brown

"Emergent phenomena are properties that seem to exist at a different
level to the interactions that generate them. They are properties of a
whole that seem magically disconnected from the properties of its parts.

For creative practices such as art and architecture, emergence generally appears
as an issue in relation to works that involve digital computation and interactivity.
Inquiries are commonly concerned with the invention of generative
and/or interactive systems (or designing a design system rather than
a design product)". (p.59)

aesthetically inclined notion of emergence as an elastic, dynamic model pertaining to
a mode of engagement, a way of relating, a perceptual orientation and a
mode of composition. (p.68)

"As a companion to the aesthetic and the ethical, emergence is a way of appearing, making, acting, doing; a mode of composition or an organising principle that always involves drawing forms of coherence out of a texture of collectively transformational patternings."
from The Aesthetics of Emergence: processual architecture and an ethico-aesthetics of composition (p.98)  Pia Ednie-Brown

Holland, J,. (1998), Emergence. From Chaos to Order. p.231