The library of systemic relations focuses more of our attention on the relations in our work, suggesting ways of marking the relations between nodes in a system.
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About Gigamapping
Book: Designing Complexity
The Methodology and Practice of Systems Oriented Design – Birger Sevaldson’s book for designers in the widest sense, including any individual or organisation that is involved in change processes.
Testimonials: SOD & Gigamapping
With a look to the future, there are huge needs for this kind of design competence – to enable sustainable solutions for businesses, organizations and in policymaking.
Gigamap Exemplars
These gigamap exemplars are organised into three main groups: content maps, functional maps, and structural maps. They are from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Chalmers Technical University and...
Sense Sharing
Gigamaps are about sharing a sense of complexity. If the team members have a diverging sense of the complexity of the task, this is a problem. The person who thinks it is a simple task will allocate far fewer resources to the project than the person who thinks it is a...
Validating Gigamaps
Validating gigamaps requires that attention is paid to the information build-up of the project. If conducted well, the modes described in this article construct the evidence found on the gigamaps.
Related Approaches
There are three related approaches that are derived from gigamapping: synthesis maps, layered scenario mapping, and metaphor maps. Common to them is that they are narrower framed than the gigamap and are more specialised towards a purpose. The gigamap is intentionally...
Layered Scenario Mapping
Layered scenario mapping is a technique used to gain insight into the ‘situation one designs for'. It is a systemic technique and emphasises presenting information in different layers going from an overview to very detailed information. The technique proposes a...
Reinventing the Wheel
"Reinventing the wheel" has come up – especially when people compare gigamapping to mind-mapping. This made me ask what it means to reinvent the wheel, and what kind of wheel is gigamapping? People ask what differentiates SOD and gigamapping from other approaches and...
How to Gigamap
There are some useful rules of thumb for how to gigamap that have emerged through producing gigamaps and instructing students and professionals.
Gigamapping Discussion
This gigamapping discussion is the transcript of an email exchange between George and Birger Sevaldson. The discussion was based on the map "Age-related Obesity Trends and Factors." Are there also ideas embedded in this complex visual structure that may be discovered...
What is Gigamapping?
Gigamapping is super extensive mapping across multiple layers and scales with the goal of investigating relations
Gigamaps are designed artefacts
Gigamaps are designed artefacts – they are not meant to be an accurate record of complex systems “out there.” When working with gigamapping, one works with information as a designer in a constructivist way.When gigamapping, the information is designed through several...
Why gigamaps are fuzzy
Most of infographics have an intention to sort, frame, tame and simplify information so as to make it accessible for anybody. Evaluating gigamapping as we practice it according to these criteria misses the point.
Gigamap Gallery
The gigamap gallery includes work from AHO, HIALS, NTNU, HIOA, and advanced students from Estonia Technical University in Tallin, Chalmers in Sweden, OCADU, Canada and IIT, India and other places and by professionals around the Oslo area. Gigamaps are process...