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      Gerlinde Schuller

      Designing Universal Knowledge
      The World as Flatland – Report 1

      2009 | English | 16.5 x 24 cm | 304 pages | 650 illustrations | hardcover
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The development of modern communication and information technologies like the Internet and globalization have not only changed access and spread of the available knowledge but also the speed of collecting. The author examines collections of knowledge such as archives, encyclopedias, data collections, and libraries that make knowledge accessible worldwide.
Who is collecting the world’s knowledge? How is it structured and designed? Who determines the access of knowledge? Designers and researchers from different fields have set standards for the classification and design of complex data collections and thus exerted an enormous influence on how knowledge is communicated. This facilitates knowledge transfer, but it also increases the danger of manipulation.
Along with these aspects, the book also explores the possibilities of “universal design” and presents new approaches to visualizing complex information.

インターネットやグローバリゼーションなど現代的なコミュニケーションや、ITの発達は、得られる知識の入手方法や広まりばかりか、収集スピードまでも変化させた。著者はアーカイブや百科事典、集積データや図書館など、知識を世界的に入手できるような情報集積を調査する。
誰が世界の知識を収集しているのか?構成やデザインはどうなっているのか?誰が知識の入手方法を決めるのか?異なる分野のデザイナーや研究者が分類や複雑なデータの集積に関する基準を設定し、知識の意思疎通方法における多大な影響に取り組む。これは知識の伝達を促進するが、一方でその改ざんの危険性が増す。
こうした状況に加えて、本書は“ユニバーサルデザイン”の可能性を探求したり、創作した情報を可視化するという新たな試みを提示する。
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