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Knowledge Art learning resources

Following the tragically premature death of Al Selvin in October 2015, I continued to think about how his inspirational research can live on in more than research writings. Friends and colleagues were discussing ways in which we could communicate the ideas behind Knowledge Art to reflective practitioners, in contrast to the more academic audiences we’d been engaging with. One outcome of […]

ICLS 2018 Keynote: Transitioning Education’s Knowledge Infrastructure

Keynote, International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2018, London Festival of Learning  Transitioning Education’s Knowledge Infrastructure: Shaping Design or Shouting from the Touchline? Download HD / other • Slides PDF / Slideshare Abstract: Bit by bit, a data-intensive substrate for education is being designed, plumbed in and switched on, powered by digital data from an expanding sensor array, data science and artificial intelligence. […]

Constructing Knowledge Art: new book

A new book has just come out as part of the Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics series (originally Morgan Claypool, now SpringerNature), edited by Jack Carroll. Constructing Knowledge Art: An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations As many of you will know, Al Selvin is a close colleague and friend in New York, whose PhD research with me […]

New book: Chapter 1 v0.1

Al Selvin and I are working on a book to distill the key messages from his long term research programme, culminating in his PhD 18 mnths ago. So, we’re thinking aloud as we try out different ideas… reactions welcomed! Possible titles… Making Representations Matter: Catalyzing Collective Intelligence with Visualizations Collective Intelligence Cartography: Emergence of a […]

Creativity and Rationale book – reflections

The third major book in the field of Design Rationale has just been published.  From my perspective, this book’s publication gives me pause for thought, as it includes a chapter from one of my PhD students, when the first book 16 years ago had a chapter from my own PhD. This feels something of a […]

An emerging suite of sensemaking tools

Prospective research partners have asked for executive summaries of tools which support sensemaking, that I and my KMi colleagues are developing. This post summarises the emerging suite with links to take you deeper. The pervasive theme: flow / structure / maps To tackle any non-trivial problem today requires people working together, which requires infrastructure which […]

Complexity, Computing, Contemplation, Learning?

Beyond conscious rationality All of my work has been around harnessing the digital world to get us to go beyond the surface and think more deeply. Up till now this has been largely focused on rational modes of thinking, inquiry and sensemaking — hence all the stuff on argumentation, dialogue/debate mapping and hypermedia. However, we […]