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- What is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The meani... See more
from Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
- The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
-Margaret Mead
- Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond
- “I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us unless it’s inside a frame.” - Abbas Kiarostami
from Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems by Jake Orthwein
- A metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
- While all layers are always present and all are vital to understand any situation, Inayatullah (2003b, p.6) places a “higher” value on the mythic/metaphor layer because it informs all the other layers. Meadows (2008) similarly believes the most effective leverage point in a system is one that “transcends the paradigm”. For Meadows the “highest” lev... See more
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill
- In a world of fast content incentivized by advertising-based attention-hacking business models, being slow and considered is a superpower.
from Values by André Chaperon
- Lakoff reminds us that metaphors are the fundamental building blocks we use to make sense of our world and provide a framework for acting in the world
from Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis by Victor MacGill