Slow Cognition: The First Thematic Spirit

Oliver Ding
CALL4
Published in
13 min readMar 20, 2022

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Using Thematic Space Canvas to Develop a new canvas about Concept Development

Photo by Mathias Bach Laursen on Unsplash

About 24 hours ago, Daiana Zavate and I run the first Thematic Spirit for one hour.

Thematic Spirit is a collaborative program that aims to create new canvases based on a meta-canvas, the Thematic Space Canvas, in one or more hours.

What’s the Thematic Space Canvas?

Thematic Space Canvas is a meta-canvas that is used to create new canvases for curating various data and ideas to develop tacit knowledge about particular themes.

The diagram below is the newest design of the meta-version of Thematic Space Canvas. A meta-canvas is an abstract canvas that doesn’t tie to any domain. The goal of designing a meta-canvas is to highlight a unique spatial structure for designing domain-specific canvases. I use abstract terms such as “area”, “dimension”, “block”, and “theme” for the meta-canvas.

The Thematic Space Canvas is not a simple 2x2 matrix for building a typology, but a multiple-dimension model for visualizing a holistic view to sense-make a dynamic meaningful whole. You can find more…

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Oliver Ding
CALL4

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