I seem to be posting a lot of work-related stuff at the moment, but that's because I'm finding it quite useful to use the blog to help me think (both in words and visually) through work issues. This one is about how we can more visually describe routes through the large range of courses we offer. I trying the idea of a tube-map type approach, with all the metaphors this offers for changing trains and lines, different routes to complete the same journey and so on.
posted by Paul Levy @ 2:32 pm
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...yes, the more I look at it, the more the constellations series comes to mind! Perhaps the message to myself is that my map should not try to be too utilitarian, but to suggest possibilities about courses. Hmmm....
In 1968 when I was a student and Higher Education was in a bit of a state I drew up something very similar on behalf of the Student Union of my College as part of a proposal to enable students to take a variety of routes through the courses they had to take. My diagram was based on concentric circles, but I think that was because we decided that anything other than very regular shapes would scare the pants off the Principal and the Academic Board. It scared them anyway; it probably still languishes somewhere in the minutes of the University of Sussex School of Education as it made several reappearances in later years.
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