Visualizing for Systems
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The document discusses the intersection of information design, systems design, and game design to improve understanding and action within complex systems, particularly regarding sustainable protein production and human behavior. It emphasizes the importance of visualizing data to contextualize experiences and facilitate decision-making in collaborative environments. The text also highlights various tools and examples that merge qualitative and quantitative approaches to address real-world problems.
Visualizing for Systems
- 1. Systems action through game, systems, and information design. Visualizing For Systems
- 2. > About Me Understanding Action Coming Together We believe in a safe, sustainable, ethical approach to protein, fit for a 21st century food system.
- 3. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Information design helps us understand systems.
- 4. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together What information design (visualization) provides. Contextualization of findings: We can (and should) talk to people to understand how COVID impacted their finances but we can also see how those conversations fit into a broader narrative. Link.
- 5. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together What information design (visualization) provides. Understanding subgroups: We can (and should) talk to people in tech to understand their experience but we can also look top down to understand how happy different disciplines are and what factors drive that happiness. Link.
- 6. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together What information design (visualization) provides. Comparison between groups: We can (and should) talk to people to understand how what people think of when they think of their health but we can also listen at scale. Link.
- 7. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together What information design (visualization) provides. Connection to data: We can (and should) talk to people about what is pushing them to one degree versus another but we can also see those experiences in the aggregate. Link.
- 8. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together What information design (visualization) provides. Situating in time: Data provide a way to situate experiences in a broader context. Link.
- 9. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Information design helps us understand systems. ?
- 10. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Systems design and systems understanding. In Einstein’s time this is how far science had got. We could do really small problems with a few objects, with simple interactions, or you could do huge problems with millions of objects and simple interactions. But what about everything in the middle? …. Now, this middle region is where complexity science lies and this is what I mean by complex. Now, unfortunately, almost every single problem you can think of to do with human behavior lies in this middle region. Hannah Fry, Is Life Really That Complex?
- 11. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Systems design and systems understanding. Kim Reas / Periscopic US Gun Deaths Link
- 12. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Systems design and systems understanding. Ben Fry / Fathom, GE Annual Reports Link
- 13. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Systems design and systems understanding. Jonathan Harris, We Feel Fine
- 14. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Systems design and systems understanding. One more example. Link.
- 15. About Me > Understanding Action Coming Together Data + Anthropological Methods My user centered design course focused on one person (watch how someone makes latkes). My information design course focused on stories in aggregate (who is producing food?). Increasingly, there’s an intersection between these different disciplines where qualitative and quantitative understanding combine.
- 16. About Me Understanding > Action Coming Together What about taking action?
- 17. About Me Understanding > Action Coming Together Let’s go back to 1999 The two best selling games were… SimCity 3000 Roller Coaster Tycoon
- 18. About Me Understanding > Action Coming Together Efforts to make these into decision making tools. SimHealth SimRefinery
- 19. About Me Understanding > Action Coming Together More recent examples… Forio: Supply Chain Enroads: Climate Change CalAdapt: Sea Level Rise GOM: Ocean Health
- 20. About Me Understanding > Action Coming Together Why game design? Games are very good at creating inclusive collaborative spaces where action can be taken by many and the consequence understood quickly. Game design has had a lot of time to think about how to build fluency in complexity.
- 21. About Me Understanding Action > Coming Together Let’s go deep on a final example… We are going to take a deeper look at food deserts and how data + info + game design work to create understanding and action. Link.
- 22. About Me Understanding Action > Coming Together Let’s go deep on a final example… Moving from measuring solutions to questioning desirability and values.
- 23. Finishing up… Some jobs at https://theeverycompany.com/join Open for collabs! Some toys at https://gleap.org.
- 24. Thanks!
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