Complexity Maps

The Metadesign Dossier is a preliminary document containing an initial indicative selection of useful texts and contexts for the workshop. The dossier aim is to limit and identify the area of intervention in order to focus the exploratory phase-learning on the specific context and emerging needs.

It contains:

• Information and instrumental material on the site/s of project;
  This part consists of the collection of materials on the site.

• Elements of the background of the project question;
  This part deals with defining and restricting specifically the theme of wks in a specific question and with documenting and collecting material and experience on the topic and on the approach used to the problematic both in the context of reference and in general.

• Reference Best Practices.

INDEX (all the files are downloadable in PDF format)

01 Workshop description

01a dossier appendix - COMPLEXITY AND POSTMODERNISM

02 Theoretical background

02a dossier appendix - RESHAPING COMMUNICATION DESIGN TOOLS

02b dossier appendix - HANDLING CHANGES THROUGH DIAGRAMS

02c dossier appendix - THE LANGUAGE OF GRAPHICS

02d dossier appendix - SCALE IN GEOGRAPHY

03 Project brief

04 Literature and references

04a dossier appendix - SPACE, PLACE AND GENDER

04b dossier appendix - A LADY GOES TO BRONX

04c dossier appendix - ACTIVE LISTENING 01

04d dossier appendix - ACTIVE LISTENING 02

04e dossier appendix - WAR THEATRES AND ACTIONS OF PEACE

05 Best practices references

05a dossier appendix - VISUALIZING INFORMATION FOR ADVOCACY