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

code_swarm. An experiment in organic software visualization is an application created by Michael Ogawa with Processing, that gathers data about the history of an open source / free software community and visualizes it in a video. Here’s the video for the Python programming language:
code_swarm – Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

I’ve been studying software projects [...]

Tags: Art, Complex Systems, Free Software, Movie Design, Net Art, Open Source, processing.org, Swarm / Flock / Crowd, Visualization