Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reductionism

2008-02-22 Thread Petteri Hiisilä
sajid saiyed kirjoitti 21.2.2008 kello 21:56: > I was trying to relate this to what we do with complex information. We > also follow the scientists way by breaking down the information into > parts (reductionism) and then build correlations of these parts to > each other and (try to) present the us

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Reductionism

2008-02-21 Thread Oleh Kovalchuke
> So I would like to know, have you experienced the problem of putting > these pieces back together again? > or > Has anyone found a good solution to this problem? > or > an alternative? Card sorting exercise from Information Architecture. Several techniques described in David Straker's 'Rapid pr

[IxDA Discuss] Reductionism

2008-02-21 Thread sajid saiyed
I was reading this paper by Philip Galanter on "What is Generative Art?" and came across this (http://www.philipgalanter.com/downloads/ga2003_what_is_genart.pdf): "Science generally proceeds in a reductive manner, the thinking being that by breaking down complicated phenomena into its figurative (