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Creative contemplation meets data science in CICcalm

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As we settled into our new home on the UTS Blackfriars campus, the team discovered a shared desire to make space for contemplation and calm in the midst of very busy lives.  And so CICcalm was born: a room set aside for quick creative and contemplative breaks from set work routines. It has become our go-to space for individual and collective meditation Inspiration for the current layout of CICcalm was drawn from Theresa Anderson's ongoing installation work at overseas conferences where partici...
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New Book: Knowledge Art

Posted on by simon
A new book has just been published, as part of the Human-Centred Informatics series (Morgan Claypool), edited by Jack Carroll. Constructing Knowledge Art  An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations This book is about how people (we refer to them as practitioners) can help guide participants in creating representations of issues or ideas, such as collaborative diagrams, especially in the context of Participatory Design (PD). At its best, such representations can rea...
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New Book: Knowledge Cartography

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Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques CIC’s Director Simon Buckingham Shum has co-edited a new edition of Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. This exemplifies CIC’s approach to visualization as an aid to sensemaking when building Contested Collective Intelligence grounded in dialogue and argumentation. The book includes an extensive collection of real world case studies from research and education, with particular attention to the processes by whi...
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