Catalogue

The classical Aristotelian view claims that categories are discrete entities characterized by a set of properties which are shared by their members. In analytic philosophy, these properties are assumed to establish the conditions which are both necessary and sufficient to capture meaning.

According to the classical view, categories should be clearly defined, mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. This way, any entity of the given classification universe belongs unequivocally to one, and only one, of the proposed categories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization

At the moment the collage exists as an arbitrary overlay of separate diagrams that are each highlighting their own information found in the initial image. To make sense of these objects a catalogue will be used to streamline the thinking process and create a vocabulary of parts with which to work with.

Separate
Find objects within your collage that may be separated and distinguished, this includes vector parts, scanned diagram pieces and selections from the initial image

Categorize
With these separate objects find groups of parts, focus on systems, conditions, urbanism, infrastructure, critique, etc.

Classify
Place these objects in the matrix in their defined row and separated into columns. Each row of your matrix should be a category defined by yourself. Each column is a position for a separate part, number, or variant.

Remember economy of means and be selective in your categories, do not place a single 1” vector line as a part if it is in a set of many 1” vector lines. Do not submit forty 1” vector lines as a part. Find a balance

*Find example matrix template on server folder.

Due Feb. 12/13