Category Archives: Complexity

Are you visualising complexity?

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Came across Matt Woolman’s great website visualcomplexity.com with graphic visualisations of complexity, very nice, with a huge number of examples to draw on:

“Nerea Calvillo from FreshMadrid has produced an innovative and captivating diagram highlighting all the links between the different studios that form the architecture group. The diagram is quite detailed, making good use of Florence Nightingale’s coxcomb to map each studio’s location, tools, areas of intervention, type of products, collaborators, etc.”

PS: Happy birthday to Ted on his 94th!

Absolute Idiot

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Did you hear about the guy who’s agreed to document his life in minute detail? I came across it in the BCS podcast recently. What an ‘absolute idiot’ (an insult btw hurled at me by an E-Bay PCTV software seller in 2005 after I failed to spot his digital product after it ended up in my spam. I am still barely resisting the temptation to turn his words into a T-Shirt design with: “DO NOT SELL TO, ABSOLUTE IDIOT” emblazoned across my chest – thanks for the e-commerce inspiration JohnathanR).

Been much better if he’d tried something simpler like recorded just one day and then tried to reproduce exactly what happened the next day; recording what was hard to reproduce (obvious like the weather and unpredicatable like a train delay), and what unavoidably was different just to show how small differences can be significant. But oh no because of the idiot/mass produced culture we live in it has to be all day, every day; way to go! I’m so lucky I have comedy and complexity next to each other in my Categories to tick for this one.