Glossary

Distributed Network:

• The distributed network has no central hub, “each entity in the distributed network is an autonomous agent.” (Alexander Galloway, 2006).
• Like the rhizome, each node in a distributed network may establish direct communication with another node. (Galloway)

Mesh:

• a woven, knit, or knotted material of open texture with evenly spaced holes
• an arrangement of interlocking links
• to become entangled
• to fit or work together properly
• see also: What is a MESH Network by Rosemary Heather

Network:

• …​​cross at regular intervals and are knotted or secured
• a system of lines or channels 
• an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system
• a system…
• informally interconnected group or association
• to distribute
• to join

Stolon:

• an extension of the body wall that develops buds giving rise to new zooids which usually remain united by the stolon
• a horizontal branch from the base of a plant that produces new plants from buds at its tip or nodes
• Also: a runner

Seed

• a propagative plant structure
• the fertilized ripened ovule of a flowering plant containing an embryo and capable normally of germination to produce a new plant
• a developmental form
• the condition or stage of bearing seed
• a source of development or growth

Prototype

• an original model on which something is patterned

Web

• a network
• a tissue or membrane
• an intricate pattern or structure suggestive of something woven (network)