01. Net-Map: a social network analysis toolbox
Net-Map is a visualization and facilitation tool developed by Eva Schiffer that can be very useful for design processes for/with Community/Locality Systems.

Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals [...]

Tags: Community, Design Methodology, Locality, Low-tech, Social Network, Social Network Analysis, Tool, Visualization

I’m very happy to share with you this documentary about Complex Networks and Network Theory. It is the firt one about complexity and networks that I have found so far, it is very well structured and narrated, and it’s nice to see
Steven Strogatz, Duncan J. Watts, Alessandro Vespignani, Albert-László Barabási after reading their papers and [...]

Tags: Scale-free Networks, Science, Social Network, Social Network Analysis

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Unlike a traditional, linear, design process, Open Peer-to-Peer Design is non-linear and characterized by multiple parallell processes because of the large number of agents and their interactions. An Open Peer-to-Peer design process thus provides the basis for developing more [...]

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Open P2P Communities, Participation, Platform, Self-Organization, Service Design, Social Network Analysis