A Typology of Knowledge Diagrams (v2, 2022)

Oliver Ding
Curativity Center
Published in
19 min readNov 29, 2022

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Last year, I worked on the D as Diagramming project which produced two books (drafts) and a set of tools for studying knowledge diagrams.

The diagram below is called the Means — End Spectrum which was introduced on Nov 29, 2021.

On Oct 27, 2022, I modified the above diagram and made a new version. Now it has a new name: the Diagramming Reference Frame. See the diagram below.

The major change is adding two types of diagrams:

  • Semiotic System Diagrams
  • Meta-diagrams

This week I made a new version of Diagramming Reference Frame. See the diagram below.

This article will introduce more details about this typology of knowledge diagrams.

1. The Mediating Instrument Perspective

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Oliver Ding
Curativity Center

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