Knowledge Discovery: The “Heuristics — Skills” Mapping

Oliver Ding
CALL4
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22 min readMay 2, 2022

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This article is part of the Slow Cognition Project which focuses on Developing Tacit Knowledge with Thematic Space Canvas. The Knowledge Discovery Canvas is an application of the Thematic Space Canvas.

The Knowledge Discovery Canvas has two nested squares which divide the thematic space into two sub-spaces: inner space and outer space. For Developing Tacit Knowledge, the inner space is all about personal knowing activities while the outer space is related to social interactions.

Based on the above settings, I generated a series of mapping between outer space and inner space:

  • Approaches — Tastes
  • Concepts — Notions
  • Events — Projects
  • Domains — Works
  • Perspectives — Views
  • Frameworks — Insights
  • Methods — Guides
  • Heuristics — Skills

Today I’ll focus on the Heuristics — Skills mapping and share some of my stories. Part 1 introduces a typology of heuristics while Part 2 shares an…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.