poster

Knowledge Atlas: a cartographic approach to the social structures of knowledge

Marco Quaggiotto
 

Biography
Marco Quaggiotto is a PhD student in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication at the Politecnico of Milano and assistant professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design. His PhD thesis and research is devoted to the study of traditional knowledge images and the exploration of new approaches to knowledge mapping and visualization. He published several journal articles about the narrative aspects of cartography, and their application to territory communication.
Currently he is involved in the design and development of systems and interfaces for the visualization of complex knowledge systems, such as academic research and visual communication archives.
 

Abstract

This poster aims to visually present the first results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations by showing some applications of the 'Knowledge Atlas', a software tool developed to explore such approach.The concept of 'atlas' in this context doesn't depict as much a list of maps, but rather a system of representations of space, a
communication device aimed at representing complex contexts through the use of many partial overlapping narrations: a network of maps, diagrams, texts and peritexts, combined together to describe the space of research in its multifaceted aspects.