November 3, 2014 Information Visualization, Continued

What are the basic principles of the humanities? ““I take these principles to be, first, that the humanities are committed to the concept of knowledge as interpretation, and, second, that the apprehension of the phenomena of the physical, social, cultural world is through constructed and constitutive acts, not mechanistic or naturalistic realist representations of pre-existing or self-evident information.”

Time vs. Temporality

Space vs. Spatiality

HumViz Design Principles (per Drucker) Non-continuous, multi-directional temporality Non-continuous, non-homogeneous spatiality Subjective points of view Permeability & fuzziness, vs. discrete, bounded entities