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Diagrams that Work. WTMC workshop April 09. Dr. Willem Halffman Fac. Management and Governance Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) w.halffman@utwente.nl. Key question. What is your diagram a diagram of? → What is your diagram for ? A diagram is also a design problem...
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Diagrams that Work WTMC workshop April 09 Dr. Willem Halffman Fac. Management and Governance Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) w.halffman@utwente.nl
Key question What is your diagram a diagram of? → What is your diagram for? A diagram is also a design problem... ... and in design “form follows function”
Considerations of function • communication meanspresentation, text • audiencegeneral, STS/specialist, YOU (!) • core messagecomplexity, key features(detail vs. general point)
Organising principle 1 analysis → distinctions → boxes, axes
Organising principle 2 map → relatedness → network, clouds
Organising principle 3 genealogy → influences → tree, arrows author d author b author a author c
Organising principle 4 organism → function → flow chart
task • read a diagram of another member • author explains intention • discuss possible alternatives • (for each member until bored) • report back at 21.00