The Book and Outcomes

This website is a representation of all things involved in year long project for the final submission in a four year design course. A large portion of the working content is included as well as links to all of the articles and resource materials used in the process. As the project was divided into two sections, the first semester and the second semester, and there has already been a submission for the first semester, this blog centers on the developments and activity during the second semester. That said, there is coverage of the first semesters findings and all documentation and workings are included as links.

This website also represents the book as it attempts to abide by the greater ideology of the project, singularity of information and collaborative systems. The book that is to be submitted is a link to this knowledge base. A way into the project at large. There will be no reprinted information as I see it as fundamentally outside the appropriateness of this structure.

The core project undertaken to lead to this work is one involving a reasonless and structureless view of integrated collaboration for large scale and isolated networks of people. However, as the project has developed over the year and many aspects of the amorphous nature of the project were put to test and eventually finite and specific set of outcomes was reached. These outcomes are similar in many ways to observed conjecture and are not based on strict reality. Instead, they are based on the notions expressed by impressions from all sorts of medium including but not limited to: designers' voiced experience, presentations and seminal talks, papers and colloquiums, blogs, online videos, social media and context from interactions within the community. As a specific methodology of study was not a feature of this exploration, the approach to information finding was kept as flexible as possible.

I think the outcome is most clearly represented in the Final Presentation but just to reiterate, I think the most valuable finding is the methodology to solve the issue of finding collaborative possibilities within a workflow. This was done though tools like fileTree and the Design as Convergence as outlined in the presentation, for more information on these tools, please see the References post.