WHAT IF SPACEISN’T NEUTRAL?As part of a workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute

June 27, 2016

Presented by Dan Klyn

dialog

in order to model and analyseconceptual problems

DESIGN FOR COMPLEX WEBSITES

IACONCEPTUAL PROBLEM FOR

IA <3 PI

METATECHNOLOGYA technology that operates on and regulates other technologies

LimitationRepair

Prevention

Compensation

DESIGN FORTHE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY

OF MEANINGACROSS CONTEXTS

IAJorge Arango

CONCEPTUAL PROBLEM FOR

Information Environments

Modelling

Systemic Properties

Lifecycles

The practical and theoretical resources that both fields can rely on to tackle [these questions] are very different.Patrick Allo

precision

findability

fitness

legibility

LoA

Informative-ness

Informational Actions:

1) alter the appearance of information

2) form an integral part of the design process we should focus on

Info-architectural

Actions:

Informational Actions:

1) alter the appearance of information

2) form an integral part of the design process we should focus on

1) alter the situatedness

of taxons

2) form an integral part of the

architectureprocess

we should focus on

taxonomyontology choreography

It is clearly bad for the sciences and the arts to be divided into ”two cultures.”

It is bad for both of these cultures to be operating strictly according to

“professional standards,” without local affection or community responsibility.

It is even worse that we are actually confronting, not just “two cultures,” but a

whole ragbag of disciplines and professions, each with its own jargon more or less unintelligible to the others, and all

saying of the rest of the world, “That is not my field.”

Wendell Barry

CONCEPTUAL PROBLEM FOR EVERYBODY

A solid, objective basis for the difference between good and bad

The Order Of Bits

Problem space can be decomposed by a divide and conquer approach

MEANING IS IRRELEVANT

There is a specific archetypal structure… an invariant structure, a “presence” that manifests itself in anything which lives.

Wholeness

Something within space and matter can be awoken by the presence of the proper configurations

Where every choice to situate material in space has been circumscribed by the sensethat even a small act of carelessness in the environment would be tantamount to a disaster.

A geometrical field of relationships that comes into focus under certain conditions; the single most powerful property of which is the way that all of the parts work together.

1. LEVELS OF SCALE2. STRONG CENTERS3. BOUNDARIES4. ALTERNATING REPETITION5. POSITIVE SPACE6. GOOD SHAPE7. LOCAL SYMMETRIES8. DEEP INTERLOCK AND AMBIGUITY9. CONTRAST10. GRADIENTS11. ROUGHNES12. ECHOES13. THE VOID14. SIMPLICITY AND INNER CALM15. NOT-SEPARATENESS

Space Is Space

The Ordinary Way

Wendell Barry

150X/DAY

40HRS/MO

What would it be liketo live in a mental worldwhere one’s reasons for making something functionallyand one’s reasons for making something a certain shape, or in a certain ornamental way are actually coming from precisely the same place in you

?

@undrstndng

http://understandinggroup.com

@danklyn

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