Representation
4 posts tagged with “Representation”
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The Reification Gap: How Institutional Governance Transforms Design Understanding
Gedenryd (1998) identified a fundamental discrepancy in design methodology: a gap between "the received, theoretical views of how things ought to work, and how they have turned out to work in reality...
Four Senses of State Space
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...
Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Meaning
The previous post surveyed competing frameworks for representing knowledge - distributed cognition, activity theory, social representations, prototype theory - and argued that Gärdenfors's conceptual...
From Cognitive Frameworks to Geometric Formalism
The previous posts in this series established that services involve objects with properties, events that change those properties, and systems in which those events unfold. The next question is...