Diagram Explained: Activity, Knowledge, and Moving on Diagrams

Diagram-in-Use and Creative Diagramming

In the previous articles, I discussed two themes about knowledge diagrams: the theme of “Hierarchy” and the theme of “Network”.

This post aims to discuss the theme of “Path”.

The above diagram shows a “Path” which shows several moves between different Units of Analysis of the Ecological Formism framework.

1 Projects → 2 Situational Diagrams → 3 Affordance → 4 Thematic Spaces → 5 Framework

Let’s translate this path to a real process:

1 We start a Project about a theme or a problem…

2 … we use a Diagram that represents a knowledge framework in a situation such as a meeting, or thinking about an idea …or we just look at some diagrams in Miro … or just play some ideas with diagrams…

3 … sometimes, we perceive the Graphic Space Affordances …

4 … these Affordances could lead to some Thematic Spaces of some diagrams …

5 … these Thematic Spaces could lead to a new Path that shows moves between different thematic spaces, and the path could lead to a new Knowledge Framework…these Thematic Spaces also could lead to some related…