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WEEK 6 – FINDING FOCUS
SYSTEMS MAPPING PRIMER
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Gain awareness of the interconnected systems around us (natural, political, social systems)
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Explore different ways to visualise systems as a tool to make sense of a complex world
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Map the systems in your environment to practice. We started with the classroom, focussing on learning and communication and drawing out the root causes, and cause and effect of what we are experiencing
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CREATIVE TEXT MARKUP: A CRITICAL LOOK AT INTERPRETING AND VISUALISING DATA
Explore data justice, data feminism and contextualise and visualise decolonial research methods while working towards pluriversalities. We will use text markup as a creative process to challenge the 'voiceless characters' and collectively make 'data manifestos', in response to the following questions:
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How is Data created?
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What is it used for?
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Who is involved and excluded from this process?
This session was led by Tai Cossich. Their doctoral research discusses, through graphic design practice and grounded in visual epistemologies, the socio-technical conditions for printing texts in minoritised languages (particularly indigenous languages of Central and South America). Text markup is used in a quasi-forensic manner (observing the particular case of the glottal stop, a speech sound historically challenging to represent in Latin based orthographies) to interrogate primary sources and to present research findings visually, whilst also enabling engagement in a wider conversation about language rights, decoloniality, and pluriversalities.
READING GROUP
Explore Donella Meadow's foundational systems thinking text Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
This is a visual guide to Leverage points she proposes for where to intervene in a system.
Question the language of systems thinking! Can you think of other ways to describe similar ideas that align with a less mechanistic worldview?
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