Comments on: The Historian’s Macroscope

By: Paolo Ciuccarelli (@pciuccarelli)

Paolo Ciuccarelli (@pciuccarelli) — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:42:37 +0000

Thanks, it would be nice to know!

BTW given your background and your actual work you might be interested in the EMAPS project (www.emapsproject.com), where we – together with the Medialab at Sciences-Po – are designing diagrams that – as a macroscope should do – make visible the complexity of the relationships between science, society and nature.

By: Scott Weingart

Scott Weingart — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 22:03:11 +0000

I know she’s been using it since at least 2006 (see e.g. http://ivl.cns.iu.edu/km/pub/2006-borner-scipolicy-helsinki.pdf), but that was well before my time at the CNS. I’ll ask her to see if she remembers.

Thanks for the words of encouragement, I hope it lives up to your expectations!

By: Paolo Ciuccarelli (@pciuccarelli)

Paolo Ciuccarelli (@pciuccarelli) — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:52:40 +0000

Ah, I see..I’ve to admit I didn’t read carefully your bio…now is done!
Very interesting!
Just as a curiosity, do you know when she (Katy Börner) started using the term macroscope in her work? I couldn’t find evidences in the web before this one: http://ivl.cns.iu.edu/km/news-slis/2007-borner-macroscope.pdf

I started using it around 2008 (http://www.densitydesign.org/2008/05/macroscopes/), when I found this comment written by a designer about the 2006 edition of “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science”: http://magicalnihilism.com/2006/04/06/a-manhattan-melange-of-macroscopes/

Looking forward to reading your book!

By: Scott Weingart

Scott Weingart — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:56:14 +0000

Thank you for the kind words and for pointing me to your post. Although I’m a historian, my phd supervisor is Katy Börner, who as you note has been using the term for some time. The world is always smaller than it seems!

By: Paolo

Paolo — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:49:25 +0000

Nice to see another interpretation/usage of de Rosnay’s Macroscope as a reference. Here is our version, in the field of data and information visualization: http://www.densitydesign.org/2011/04/macroscopes-and-visualization-again-a-circular-path/

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