Document the Context: Design in Scales
Classifying Context:
Clarify the Complex Context in Communication
Things can not exist isolated from space; their value change according to different surroundings. Thus the best way to understand and define a thing is to evaluate its surrounding, which is a complex process or practice of locating the scale of context. By understanding the surroundings we can learn how things build connections to each other, and how their meanings and value are carried on through communication. Context is important because it decides which information during its practice and communication should be addressed. Design as a practice is a process of making things more efficient, rational, understandable, meaningful, elegant and beautiful; it always needs to consider things in a larger scale of context.
The same thing could have multiple potential values and meanings in different contexts. On the other hand, things as components could also redefine surroundings. Thus the relationship between information and context rely on each other and reference each other as well. Some of the examples take advantage of context to establish identities in order to build their own voice of communication, while others experiment with or practice what the context could be. So this book will have a general discussion that is focused on different types of contexts and the differences between each type of context.
Context is not just formed by physical space; there are many ways that context exists. For instance, context could be action, component, culture or cognition. Sometimes several of these are combined together, which can make it difficult to understand the core value of the complex structure. Thus this book is dedicated to exploring a method to document those contexts in a rational and constructional way with vivid examples from daily life. The context of each example will be broken down into pieces of information, description and value based on different features.
Clarify the Complex Context in Communication
Things can not exist isolated from space; their value change according to different surroundings. Thus the best way to understand and define a thing is to evaluate its surrounding, which is a complex process or practice of locating the scale of context. By understanding the surroundings we can learn how things build connections to each other, and how their meanings and value are carried on through communication. Context is important because it decides which information during its practice and communication should be addressed. Design as a practice is a process of making things more efficient, rational, understandable, meaningful, elegant and beautiful; it always needs to consider things in a larger scale of context.
The same thing could have multiple potential values and meanings in different contexts. On the other hand, things as components could also redefine surroundings. Thus the relationship between information and context rely on each other and reference each other as well. Some of the examples take advantage of context to establish identities in order to build their own voice of communication, while others experiment with or practice what the context could be. So this book will have a general discussion that is focused on different types of contexts and the differences between each type of context.
Context is not just formed by physical space; there are many ways that context exists. For instance, context could be action, component, culture or cognition. Sometimes several of these are combined together, which can make it difficult to understand the core value of the complex structure. Thus this book is dedicated to exploring a method to document those contexts in a rational and constructional way with vivid examples from daily life. The context of each example will be broken down into pieces of information, description and value based on different features.
