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Complexity Maps
No full textNegli ultimi vent’anni le tecniche legate all’Information
Visualisation e all’Information Design si sono affermate
come tra le più importanti per la gestione e la rappresentazione
di dati, informazioni e conoscenze, grazie alla loro
capacità di rendere il “complesso accessibile, l’invisibile
visibile e l’intangibile tangibile”. Uno dei territori dove
stanno rivelando la loro maggiore effi cacia è la città.
Le tradizionali forme di mappatura e di rappresentazione,
infatti, si rivelano inadeguate per rappresentare il tessuto
urbano come un unico complesso vivente. È proprio la
complessità dei fl ussi urbani (tangibili e intangibili) che
richiede l’utilizzo di strumenti accurati che possano
visualizzare i fenomeni senza scinderli, strumenti che
rappresentino le qualità non immediatamente percepibili
di un sistema. In questo contesto, i nuovi linguaggi
diagrammatici possono essere visti come un’interfaccia
liminale tra conoscenza ed esperienza, piuttosto
che una mera descrizione della realtà. Costruiscono
modelli visivi che collegano l’ambito fi sico delle città
con l’invisibile mondo della comunicazione, delle reti
sociali e dell’attività umana. Il potenziale delle scritture
diagrammatiche va oltre la semplice rappresentazione
dei sistemi, consentendo di identifi care i punti chiave
attraverso i quali poter agire consciamente all’interno
del sistema stesso. L’obiettivo fi nale è generare vision
collettive in grado di defi nire e strutturare gli spazi con
cui interagiamo. Muovendosi in questo contesto teorico
e disciplinare il workshop “Complexity maps” ha defi nito
tre obiettivi generali: lo sviluppo di un adeguato metodo
per la raccolta di informazioni a livello delle comunità
locali; la defi nizione di metodi di visualizzazione in grado
di esplicitare le dinamiche interne dell’area di studio; la
creazione di nuovi modelli metodologici per la disciplina
dell’Information Visualisation
Handling changes through diagrams. Scale and Grain in the Visual Representation of Complex System
No full textTo change towards a more sustainable development could means to make decisions not only with a systemic approach, but also to be able to decide in the right time: the density. It seems that, when the discipline of Design integrate a systemic approach with the competences of designers in visualization, it can cope with dense situations, providing effective artefacts – diagrams - to improve the decision process and making profit from the richness of complexity. The prior findings of the Complexity Science are here assumed as a theoretical framework to have an interpretative model on how the knowledge about systems could be organized and depicted. Three tools to produce effective diagrams, framing, graining and scaling are here discussed though six case studies
Seeing what they are saying: Diagrams for socio-technical controversies
No full textThe opening of enormous databases and the possibility offered by new tools to access the
heterogeneous flows of data and information emerging from the Internet could be seen as an
innovative mode also to observe and represent social complex systems. The cartography of
controversies, the applied version of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT), is one of the examples of
this new way of exploring and understanding these new information and knowledge domains. The
cartography of controversies also aims at overcoming some of the limits of the traditional
description of social issues by exploiting the potentialities of the information visualization and of the
information design. In this framework visual models and diagrammatic devices are assumed as
useful tools to describe the different position assumed by the actors of controversy. A distinctive
feature of these, heterogeneous and non-isotopic, spaces is the absence of unique metrics to deal
with them. The absence of reference points requires endowing with technical and conceptual tools
for understanding and grasping the dynamics and the processes, which characterize them.
Diagrams are here considered as operating devices able to describe and unveil the nested and
latent connections of a system.
A real case has been choose to develop and test the capability of diagrammatic models to observe
and describe controversies and to show the point of view of the actors involved in it: the remote
control of dangerous materials transportation in road.
The research is strongly related to the development of the Turtle Project: a series of visual tools
and diagrammatic devices able to explore controversies. It could be defined as an observation
environment of the discursive knowledge flowing through the Internet, offering the possibility to
make profit both from quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Some results about the chosen controversy are discussed as well as the limit of the tool
The DensityDesign lab: communication design experiments among complexity and sustainability
No full textSocial complexity requires new processes fundamentally attuned to the social and
conversational nature of decision making and design work; they should tend to enable a more
and more valuable interaction and dialogue among the actors of a social system.
Heeding the perspective of Design discipline dealing with languages, the Communication
Design could afford the creation of visual and interactive languages relevant to the
representations of Complex systems, creating shared visions within multi-actor contexts. In this
sense it can facilitate dialogues within participatory actions and verify the potential of
communication artifacts in supporting and externalizing sustainable and self-adaptive learning
processes.
Assuming this contribution of design in the multidisciplinary framework of sustainability, a
didactic and research initiatives has been established since 2004 at the Master Degree in
Communication Design at the Milan Polytechnic. Using complexity as a keyword to understand
reality, combining it with a continuous research for information aesthetics and representation, the
The DensityDesign lab explores the emergent relationships among communication design,
information visualization and complex systems. The paper will discuss the relevance of this
approach in dealing with the social issues and the data dimension, and the impact of this practice
in the master students' comprehensive background
A dictionary of visual analogies
Full text linkThis paper discusses a theoretical framework for a research aimed to
produce a dictionary of visual analogies used for the explanation of scientific
theories, collected both from historical and contemporary sources. The artifacts
will be indexed through a set of criteria and tags that will allow to navigate the
contents and map correlations across time, scientific domains and types of
publication. The archive will grow as an open-ended accumulation of examples,
adapting the methodology for the selection and organisation of the analogies
based on the new entries. A set of visualisations will be used in order to navigate
the archive and make emerging patterns legible. The initial method of
classification will be based on the faceted system envisioned by Luca Rosati
(Rosati, 2015), in which artifacts are tagged and tags are organised according to
a faceted classification. Tags will not be mutually exclusive, but they’ll act like
attributes: each entry may have multiple tags, the number of which can grow
without any limit or predetermined direction
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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