This is an interesting visualization of the whole science (or almost whole:). The image was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as red and blue circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved lines) were made between the paradigms that shared common members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms closer to one another when a physical simulation forced them all apart: thus the layout derives directly from the data. Larger paradigms have more papers. Labels list common words unique to each paradigm. Readable in close-up here:
(via metamodern)
Archive for March, 2010
A map of science
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Explore Bauhaus
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Incredible MoMa always builds a kind of a virtual gallery when they organize important exhibition, and although the Bauhaus: 1919-1933: Workshops for modernity event is over, one may bite into history of this famous and influential school via special site with timeline of the most important works. The site is a beautiful and well-organized journey into modernity.
Indeed, Bauhaus was the most influential school of avant-garde art, design and architecture. Founded 1919 by an architect Walter Gropius Bauhaus made its home in three German cities: Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, had three directors: Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today. Other importane names of Bauhaus school include: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl—but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.



