From a short presentation at the Oxford Internet Institute on June 27, 2016

1. WHAT IF SPACE
ISN’T NEUTRAL?
As part of a workshop at the
Oxford Internet Institute
June 27, 2016
Presented by Dan Klyn

5. dialog

6. in order to model and analyse
conceptual problems

7. DESIGN FOR
COMPLEX WEBSITES
IA
CONCEPTUAL PROBLEM FOR

8. IA <3 PI

9. METATECHNOLOGYA technology that operates on and regulates other technologies

11. Limitation
Repair
Prevention
Compensation

14. DESIGN FOR
THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY
OF MEANING
ACROSS CONTEXTS
IA
Jorge Arango
CONCEPTUAL PROBLEM FOR

16. Information Environments
Modelling
Systemic Properties
Lifecycles

17. 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

18. Informational
Actions:
1) alter the
appearance
of information
2) form an integral
part of the
design process
we should focus on

19. 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
architecture
process
we should focus on

20. taxonomyontology choreography

21. 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

22. CONCEPTUAL PROBLEM
FOR EVERYBODY
A solid, objective basis
for the difference
between
good and bad

26. The Order Of Bits

27. Problem space can
be decomposed by a
divide and conquer
approach

28. MEANING IS IRRELEVANT

33. There is a specific
archetypal
structure…an
invariantstructure,
a “presence”that
manifestsitself in
anythingwhich lives.

34. Wholeness

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

42. Where everychoice to situate
material in space has been
circumscribed by the sense
that evena small act of
carelessness in the
environment would
be tantamount to
a disaster.

43. A geometricalfield 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.

44. 1. LEVELS OF SCALE
2. STRONG CENTERS
3. BOUNDARIES
4. ALTERNATING REPETITION
5. POSITIVE SPACE
6. GOOD SHAPE
7. LOCAL SYMMETRIES
8. DEEP INTERLOCK ANDAMBIGUITY
9. CONTRAST
10. GRADIENTS
11. ROUGHNES
12. ECHOES
13. THE VOID
14. SIMPLICITY ANDINNER CALM
15. NOT-SEPARATENESS

45. Space IsSpace

47. TheOrdinary Way

49. Wendell Barry

50. 150X/DAY
40HRS/MO

51. What would it be like
to live in a mental world
where one’s reasons
for making something
functionally
and 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
?

52. @undrstndng
http://understandinggroup.com
@danklyn

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