Knowledge Discovery: The “Perspectives — Views” Mapping

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
12 min readApr 10, 2022

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How to become an independent thinker?

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 Perspectives — Views mapping and discuss a related issue: independent thinking.

Perspective is not Reality

In the middle of 2016, I took pictures below while I visited Children’s Museum Houston with my two sons.

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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