2.3On Space
The environment or “milieu” that we live in is partly composed of a space and as such, some of the earliest things that we need to describe during childhood exist in a spatial field. We become accustomed to understanding the spatial dimensions and become experienced at describing them. Survival, [MIM] claims, has become our […]
2.2 Mental Models
People construct internal representations, called mental models, of the situation in the world that they want to reason about and then change those models, in ways corresponding to the ways the world can change, to try to find solutions to their problems.
[Mind in Action, p 68]
The creative process is essentially the formulation […]
2. Background Investigations
“It is in symbolic, visual terms that the designer ultimately realises his perceptions and experiences; and it is in the world of symbols that man lives. The symbol is thus the common language between the artist and spectator”
Brian Lawson - How Designers Think
In this chapter, we survey various texts to get some […]
Chapter 1: Language, maps, communication and memory.
“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!” “You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
Lewis Carroll ( 1832-98 ) - Through the looking glass (1872)
To exchange thoughts is a fundamental need of every human being. No […]
Abstract
When referring to a problem, we often speak of a space in which the problem’s parts exist. This allows us to speak metaphorically and to apply knowledge constructed in a given field to be useful in a less familiar one.
Concepts are universally separate from representation, yet the representation often subtly distorts or obscures the ideas. […]
