visual epistemologyfor design in complex systems

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who am I?

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYITALIAN ASSOCIATION

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The claim should be written on bottom of the logo in Futura Medium.

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making sense of complex systems.

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simple.complicated.complex.

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simple. sim(without)+plicum(fold)

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complicated.cum(with)+plicum(fold)

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complex.cum(with)+plexus(tied up with)

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characteristics.

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Complexity and design.

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we visually organize the world in order to understand it

pattern recognitionand sense making.

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we visually organize the world in order to understand it

visualizations are created to make sense of what we see

pattern recognitionand sense making.

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we visually organize the world in order to understand it

visualizations are created to make sense of what we see so we can take action

pattern recognitionand sense making.

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the metaphor of the cartographer.

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the metaphor of the cartographer.

We designers are like the ancient cartographers, we produce representations of the world, as we know it

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We designers are like the ancient cartographers, we produce representations of the world, as we know it

we explore our world and we represent it, we use our representations to explore the world and to understand it

the metaphor of the cartographer.

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some stories.

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Cristopher Columbus.

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the image of the world.

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arbore scienti.

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the power of visualization and the concept of diagram

"It is one of the most significant developments in the process of design in the late 20th and early 21st centuries" (Mark Garcia)

why does this happen?

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διαγραμμα DIÀ (through) + GRÀMMA (sign) The diagram is both the structure of a system and the visual representation of that structure

Diagram.

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Diagrams.

the grid is a diagram of a graphic layoutthe table of content is a diagram of a book

The diagram is both the structure of a system and the visual representation of that structure

Diagrams.

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the diagram is often a set of rules

Diagrams.

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Diagrams.

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Diagrams.

Diagrams as generative tools

Operating devices able to reveal the weak links and the driving forces that can facilitate (or hinder) design

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fireflies by Kristian Cvecek.

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paint attack.

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britain from above.

The field of Complex Systems is interested in relationshipsTranslating the strengths and the tensions among agents

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Diagrams.mark lombardi.

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synchronousobjects.

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different diagrams, same systemThe political nature and the principle of responsibility

each representation of reality are intentionally structured and thus arbitrary, anexact and incomplete

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a political act.

medium for communication (or persuasion, or engagement…)

tool for understanding (or problem solving, planning, orienting…)

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visualization has a double function.

a visual rhetoric made of objects, relations among those objects and tools for managing the relation between objects and environment

a visual epistemology describing how we interpret the world with visualizations

visualization has a double function.

visual epistemology

visual rhetoric

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Rhetoric is the art of using language to communicate effectively and persuasively.

Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse.

visual rhetoric:visualization as a medium

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How visualizations change the way we interpret, perceive and understand the world we live in

Epistemology (eπιστήμη episteme, + λόγος, logos) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge. It addresses the questions: What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? How do we know what we know?

visual epistemology:visualization as a tool

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cpf:visualization as a tool

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citymurmur:visualization as a tool

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we will be here:visualization as a tool

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Representing does not only mean to make a more or less accurate replica of the visible, representing does also mean showing the invisible.

ANCESCHI G., 1981. Monogrammi e figure. Firenze: La casa Usher.

Showing the invisible, in turn, does not only signify to merely illustrate the real existence, but it does means to imagine visual models of the possible, probable, and hypothetical069.