Design

Three years have passed since the concentrated sequence of posts that built this series' formal apparatus - conceptual spaces, state spaces, graphs, promises, statecharts, service grammar - and...

The statechart work on a data access service a few months ago was clarifying in ways I did not expect. Applying Harel's formalism to a real service - mapping its states, transitions, preconditions -...

Working through the formal apparatus, the institutional critique, and the politics of formalism, it becomes apparent that the concept of "state" in "state space" has been operating across the series...

The previous posts in this series built a formal apparatus - conceptual spaces, state spaces, graphs, promises, statecharts, grammars - and then applied it to a critique of public sector...

Across this series I have developed an argument in three parts: that planning and design are fundamentally different activities, distinguished by whether the problem space within which work proceeds...

The previous post contrasted product management and service design representations, finding that neither tradition has explicit state models, formal transition specifications, or generative grammars;...

The previous post presented planning as a computational problem: navigation within a state space. The key insight was that planning presupposes a domain model - what the series calls domain...

The previous post surveyed competing frameworks for representing knowledge - distributed cognition, activity theory, social representations, prototype theory - and argued that Gärdenfors's conceptual...

Three things converged during my time at SCÖ, a Swedish coordination association for vocational rehabilitation, that set the direction for this series. Each pointed toward the same underlying...