ias 09 cartographer metaphor

final project

ias 09 cartographer metaphor
Communicating across spaces:  maintaining the social life of information
Meetings both local and crossing states
Use communicator to share screen
and allow control
connect with coworkers
everywhere
across time zones
Live Meetings, just not face to face
central to learning
Information ecologies
“In attempting to replace outmoded ways of doing things, new technologies also displace work tasks that were once successfully shared across a group.  These are now concentrated on an individual."  

 John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid 
Question assumptions to reach new conclusions.
"In the transition to home offices...burdens pass from the social system, where tasks are shared, onto the lap of individuals.  The desire to show that with a computer one person can do everyting may look not foward, but back to the stage in social evolution before anyone noticed the advantages of the division of labor."

John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
Technology
Writing
Information
“How do we resolve the conflict between shapeliness, or control, and our sense that we are never entirely in control, in that we can never entirely close the gap between the work we envision and the work we create?”

Peter Turchi
“…Any story is a single option among a realm of possibilities.”

Peter Turchi
“The social and technical aspects of an environment coevolve.  People’s activities and tools adjust and are readjusted in relation to each other, always attempting and never quite achieving a perfect fit.  This is part of the dynamic balance achieve in healthy ecologies—a balance found in motion, not is stillness."

Bonnie A. Nari and Vicki L. O'Day
“It is tremendously valuable to wonder about why things are the way they are.  It is even more valuable to reflect aloud about what has been noticed so that others can take part in the discussion."

Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O'Day
Edward Tufte on Beautiful Evidence

"To create this display, Megan Jaegerman did both the research and the design, breaking their common alienation.  This design amplifies the content, because the designer created the content."
"Definitions for a concept are seen as characterizing the things that are inherent in the concept itself.  We, on the other hand, are concerned with how human beings get a handle on the concept--how they understand it and function in terms of it."

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
"The law should regulate in certain places of culture--but it should regulate where that regulation is good."

Lawrence Lessig
"To do historical justice to the development of information infrastructures, one must move among stories that historians traditionally tell of people and places and things and those stories are generally left untold:  of the woof and the warp of the canvace on which historical dramas are painted."

Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
Readers may move on to something else or “dutifully attempt to form bridges from one passage to the next, to discover the writer’s logic or pattern, the work’s intended accumulation.”

Peter Turchi
When faced with white space....
Mappings “become more credible if constructed independently from a favored result."

Edward Tufte
"Traditional thinking has long held that truly great works of art and literature are only possible when the two are kept at arm's length."

Scott McCloud
"...There lies a medium of communication and expression that uses closure like no other...A medium where the audience is a willing and conscious collaborator and closure is the agent of change, time and motion."

Scott McCloud
..
"...If who I am matters less, maybe what I say will matter more."

Scott McCloud
“Providing a straightforward and contextual look at intense evidence, sparkline graphics give us some chance to be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

Edward Tufte
...or maybe not...
Meaning
Knowledge
graphic from www.lockheedmartin.com