Representation
5 posts tagged with “Representation”
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The Reification Gap: How Institutional Governance Transforms Design Understanding
In an earlier post, I discussed Gedenryd's (1998) identification of a fundamental discrepancy in design methodology: the gap between "the received, theoretical views of how things ought to work, and...
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...
What is a State Space?
The previous post showed how concepts can be represented geometrically - as regions in multi-dimensional vector spaces where similarity is distance. This geometric formalism is powerful: it provides...
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...