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peter

@peter@stoyko.space

Interdisciplinary social scientist and information designer interested in systems, culture, foresight, service design, design methods, and governance; always on the look out for better ways to understand and express complexity. Lover of art, poetry, experimental music, and philosophy.

#systems #SystemsThinking #SystemsScience #culture #SocialScience #design #InformationDesign #SystemDesign #ServiceDesign #illustration #foresight #futurism #history #philosophy #interdisciplinary #GraphicDesign

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peter, to science
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SCALE. Is it micro or macro? Recurring patterns at radically different scales, courtesy of NASA. https://chandra.si.edu/micro/

(It strikes me that a bigger study of multiscale pattern equivalence would turn up some important principles of system interaction dynamics.)

Pattern: Is it micro or macro?
Pattern: Is it micro or macro?
Pattern: Is it micro or macro?

peter, to politics
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POLITICS. Just got a new book about gaslighting, or claiming something obviously wrong to wind up a political opponent or to just confuse the situation.

impactology, to random
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Wow David Goodwin, Oliver Caviglioli,
Tom Sherrington are kind of doing what I want to do.

They create one pager infographics of edu research.

https://www.olicav.com/
https://walkthrus.co.uk/
https://teacherhead.com/teacherhead-consulting/

peter,
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@impactology Oliver's books sell really well. I composed a couple of the page spreads. Worth checking out.

peter,
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@impactology I like Mastodon. Managing an instance isn't without headaches but it's worth the effort. :)

impactology, (edited ) to random
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Okay decided on the final format creating a vizualization that represents analysis of ongoing conversations at intersection of two fields for my project

A Zine or Collage of Sketchnotes

One that uses creative juxtapositions of layout, colour, type, iconography that a collage/zine affords to blend multiple viewpoints of ongoing conversations at intersection of two fields, to help see continuity between seemingly separate ideas

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/112320046496133353

peter,
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@impactology When I do a project like this, I start from constraints while thinking about usage (mediums, applications, users, etc). That usually leads to a set of design considerations, such as the ones listed here: http://www.systemviz.com/vv-syntax-guide.pdf . So maybe I work with a limited colour palette, a set of line weights, an illustration style, and so forth, then let the constraints guide the design. I also collect inspirations to develop a style. ...

peter,
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@impactology Also, if the subject matter is concrete and observable, I may go with something pictorial. Or if abstract and conceptual, something more diagrammatic and suggestive. And the whole package of design problems has to sustain my interest for a long period, especial while working through difficult items. I hope that's useful.

peter,
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@impactology Thanks. Whenever I build an icon system, there are a body of specifications like that which I have in mind. This is a case of me putting them all down on paper for others to add to the set.

peter,
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@impactology I often work in a distance-3D perspective (orthographic), mainly isometric or dimetric angles. A lot of architects and game designers use axonometric angles, which I find less practical because of the ground-plane emphasis. I almost always use a two- or three-point perspective for 3D icons. The logo I did for the Trust Over IP Foundation is the only exception that comes to mind. Orthographic icons can be inflexible but I've seen voxel artists do cool icons in that perspective.

peter,
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@impactology Things like isometric perspective is easier for tangible things between the human scale and the bird's eye view. If abstract or bigger/smaller, I often have to revert to a point perspective. In any case, the hardest part is coming up with the representative concept, not the actual drawing.

peter, to Cybersecurity
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SYSTEMS + VULNERABILITIES. This is one of the few cyber-security books that seems to grasp the realities of complex systems dynamics. That these ideas are not yet mainstream in the security industry, let alone Organizationland, while everything in our lives becomes increasingly systematized, should concern you. Highly recommended.

clive, to random
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Your reading for today:

🧊 hypercube online toy: https://ncube.ndavd.com/?utm_source=clivethompson&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linkfest-16-visible-birdsong-braille-ambigrams

🧠 “critical ignoring”: https://theconversation.com/when-critical-thinking-isnt-enough-to-beat-information-overload-we-need-to-learn-critical-ignoring-198549?utm_source=DenseDiscovery-266&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linkfest-16-visible-birdsong-braille-ambigrams

🌳 children living near green space have a higher bone density: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38175647/?utm_source=clivethompson&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linkfest-16-visible-birdsong-braille-ambigrams

All taken from my latest “Linkfest“ letter, read the whole thing here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-16-visible-birdsong-braille-ambigrams/

An animated GIF of a rotating four dimensional hyper cue. It is spinning on a black background. The cube has faces that are color translucent blue, and all of its edges are bright solid blue. It is morphing such that the inside, internal cube appears to be expanding outwards and swallowing the larger outside cube, over and over again

peter,
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@clive One easy form of “critical ignoring” that serves me well is “ignore all crime stories.” Nothing about the story may be wrong factually but there’s always an agenda/narrative pushing it towards your attention.

peter, to random
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SYSTEMVIZ. Last year I presented two major additions to the SystemViz Project on visualizing systems at international conferences. I'm releasing both to the general public to start the new year. Of Interest is the ESCALADE information-design framework slide-notes: http://www.systemviz.com/escalade-slidenotes1.pdf . And Anatomy of System Notations codex poster: http://www.systemviz.com/anatomy-poster1.pdf . Slidenotes for the Anatomy are also available at systemviz.com . Feedback is welcome.

peter, to earthquake
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DATA SERVICE. When I'm living in Tokyo and I feel an earthquake, I go to this government data-service and all the relevant data arrives within 15 seconds. Now that I'm designing and coding this sort of service, I use it as a model of efficiency and ease of use. I would've experienced the recent 7.6 quake as a 2 in Shinigawa had I been there. I hope everyone stays safe on the west coast.

Link: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20240101162429&lang=en

peter, to politics
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SOCIO-TECHNICAL POLITICS. C. Thi Nguyen on value capture and institutional metrics.

Preprint: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=NGUVCH

peter, to movies
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ANTI-PRESENCE. I just watched Jill, Uncredited on Mubi. It’s about film extra Jill Goldston’s appearances—literally just momentary appearances—in countless films. Taken as a scored sequence, the 18 minute short is an eerie statement about how scattered likenesses get preserved in media amber; never forgotten but never recalled, like ghosts in a televisual bardo.

peter, to Fonts
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TYPOGRAPHY + CODING. A new superfamily of mono typefaces has been released for free. They are ostensibly for coding but have lots of features for graphic design, such as a feature called “texture healing” that adjusts letter shapes to have better rhythm but occupies the same space. And it has five styles.

Link: https://monaspace.githubnext.com/

peter, to Sociology
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SOCIALITY. I'm fascinated by this pomo analysis of the awkward contradictions in L'Affaire Doležal. The conceptualization is of particular interest: "bad objects," "performative autocorrection," "failed interpretant," "citational mistakes," and the "moral mea culpa of confession."

Link: https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/122/3/453/381423/Feminism-and-the-Impasse-of-Whiteness-or-Who-s?

peter, to history
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HISTORICAL RETRIEVAL. The Vesuvius Project is using detailed cross-sectional scans of volcanically preserved scrolls to bring back lost works: https://scrollprize.org . And it's a competition to build the best analytical tools for the job. And progress is being made: https://scrollprize.substack.com . Imagine what lost works might be brought back.

peter, to random
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SYSTEMS + VISUALIZATION. Quick announcement of a new SystemViz codex to be launched in a month at RSD12. Online presentations start Oct. 6th with affordable ticket prices. I'll be presenting on the 18th at noon (Washington DC time). https://rsdsymposium.org/

peter, to philosophy
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APHORISMS. Steve Aylett: “For propaganda to resist erosion, calm voices must be seen as more absurd than hysterical ones.” My evening reading is a collection of aphorisms, contextless blurbs from Aylett’s writing.

peter, to random
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COMPLEXITY SCIENCE. Talks from the Para Limes’ Illusion of Control conference are now online. I recommend the talks by Sander van der Leeuw (illusion of control), Terry Sejnowski (illusion of intelligence re AI), and especially Atsushi Iriki (cognitive roots of human’s innate illusion of control).

Link: https://www.paralimes.org/past-events/conference-illusion-of-control/

peter, to climate
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CLIMATE + ECOLOGY. I started listening to this audiobook this week. About the tree line (more of a transitional zone) across the top of the northern hemisphere and how its changing. Each chapter is a visit to a different region, with both the natural and social ecologies explored; interesting systemic interdependencies across the zone.

peter, to science
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CRYPTOBIOSIS. The ability of life forms to remain in a suspended dormant state for long periods of time. This Siberian worm lasted 46,000 years in the permafrost before wiggling back to life.

Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010798&type=printable

peter, to ai
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NARRATIVES. "Existential threat" myth-making about AI, "the normalization of credulity," and what it distracts us from: https://rachelcoldicutt.medium.com/on-understanding-power-and-technology-1345dc57a1a

peter, to random
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ARCHITECTURE. I just picked up this critical evaluation of our designed environments, a book about how architecture has shifted from dwellings and makeries to spaces where people are expected to not spend much time loitering around: museums, pavilions, and so forth. So where is this going? Various authors speculate about spaces like seed repositories, laboratories, and other archetypal spaces where humans are the after-thought.

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