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I wonder if parseable imagery will have comparable benefits for us as did with parseable text.

With parseable text we were able to advance our tools like the printing press and then computers for communication. Language is standardized and developed to be scalable with this advancement. By this we aid ourselves in our own communications.

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This week’s reading raised many questions for me. Namely, is there a difference between reading a text and reading a space and if so – what is it? Reading engages many of the same faculties – it can arguably be an audio, visual, tactile act. Although, I must admit that it’s rather tenuous to compare […]

Spatial literacy has always been something that I’ve wondered how much people in general are aware of their own capability to read space/images.

We are incredibly quick with processing visual information we receive but also quick with discarding them. Certainly, we don’t think about how such process happened in our head.

Spatial/visual information seems to […]

I’ve thought a lot about the idea of spacial literacy in terms of creating virtual worlds. I’ve always been astounded by the depth in games like Grand Theft Auto and I think if there were an easy way to capture information of the spaces around us, it wouldn’t be far off that anyone could visit […]

We have learned the conventions of reading images since pictograms were carved in caves. As humans pictorially represented their understanding of the world, they learned to read metaphorical visual representations of history and the environment that consolidated their experiences and identity. The rules for understanding visuals are, however, more open to […]