Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Organizations in ever-changing environments depend upon their knowledge, as their survival depends upon effective thinking and agile actions. Any organization's knowledge is its prime asset yet its true value requires the activations of structure, query, search and decision. Shaping Knowledge provides an introduction to the key tools for thinking required by decision-making professionals in today's knowledge-intensive landscapes, and equips them with key skills to capitalize on knowledge resources. This book provides practical methods and critical insights for modelling knowledge-driven domains, providing a rich resource for exploration in professional development and practice.
- Applies high-level theory work to an engineering domain
- Proposes a novel approach to spatial, urban and interaction design
- Brings a rare inter-disciplinary perspective to a convergent technology
Synopsis
Summary How can knowledge be reconfigured so as to enhance experience, enable participation, and augment environments? Shaping Knowledge argues that knowledge is a product of human activity in a social space, and as a result is a formative resource. The book takes a step beyond 'information visualisation' and imagines a learning environment in which knowledge can be manipulated as an object. Practical examples from the domains of health, education, travel, museums and libraries are offered, and chapters cover knowledge and space, unpredictability and authorship, as well as agility, ubiquity and mobility. About the Author Jamie O'Brien is Research Manager at University College London (UCL) Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation (VEIV), a multidisciplinary research and training centre. Jamie has held positions at the British Library of Political and Economic Science and a leading museum's education department. He holds a PhD in engineering. Jamie is also a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. Contents Knowledge and space; Unpredictability; Authorship; Agility; Ubiquity; Mobility.