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November 2009 
Knowledge Architecture
Posted on Jun 2nd, 2008
by 
JM
JM
Meenakshi asked, “Explain knowledge architect” and Wanderer found the word “awesome”
Knowledge Architecture is Knowledge + Design, as I see it.
Designed to?
• Creating a more desirable future.
• Learning faster as individuals and communities
• Targeted at problem specific solutions
• Deliver sustained improvements.
• Facilitate dialogue and leaning
Most often, solutions do not lead to net improvements. The provider turns myopic to the issue out of a natural bias to one’s own baby, driven by selfishness than appropriate selfishness (Handy), create leaders and followers, teachers and students amounting to more of dependence than independence and interdependence.
Knowledge is the sum of all that we know, we will know and can know and the process is Learning. To learn is to connect, reflect and catalyze- better, faster and deeper and improve together. Parents and teachers desire that children learn faster. Managers desire that they learn faster than the competition. Citizens wish that the country positions itself as a learning community and improve faster. But do we really learn?
There is extreme urgency for rapid learning in the context of environmental concerns, social divides, growth vs. inequity, war for talent, inclusiveness and the role of corporations in creating a more desirable future. Technical connectivity enhances the possibility of real time collective and purposive learning.
Complexity of these issues demands a new pedagogy, tools and processes. More of the same would not suffice. It is not that we may not know. It is also equally important to design new ways of prioritising, showing, experiencing, comprehending what we already know at a greater scale and pace. Knowledge architecture addresses these issues of crafting new ways of seeing, a prerequisite to creating a more desirable future. There are many ways to achieve this
Visemiotics is one. Symbols facilitate easier navigation than written text as in the case of GUI of computers and software applications. A picture is worth a thousand words. At times there is no substitute for a visual symbol as in the case of road signs. Some aspects can only be communicated through visual symbols and text often hides the big picture. The younger generation is more visually dependant than on any other stimuli for learning. The visual stimuli have the highest bandwidth too. Yet one cannot ignore any one since each one has their own preferences. Stories, storytelling, scenarios, dream work, models, experiential leaning, open space, real time management development, dialogues, a lot many tools are now available to take care of the process
The integral framework (see home) is a visual tool to accelerate mastery of some of these competencies.
Well. May be I am wrong. But this is how I define my work as knowledge architect
Knowledge Architecture is Knowledge + Design, as I see it.
Designed to?
• Creating a more desirable future.
• Learning faster as individuals and communities
• Targeted at problem specific solutions
• Deliver sustained improvements.
• Facilitate dialogue and leaning
Most often, solutions do not lead to net improvements. The provider turns myopic to the issue out of a natural bias to one’s own baby, driven by selfishness than appropriate selfishness (Handy), create leaders and followers, teachers and students amounting to more of dependence than independence and interdependence.
Knowledge is the sum of all that we know, we will know and can know and the process is Learning. To learn is to connect, reflect and catalyze- better, faster and deeper and improve together. Parents and teachers desire that children learn faster. Managers desire that they learn faster than the competition. Citizens wish that the country positions itself as a learning community and improve faster. But do we really learn?
There is extreme urgency for rapid learning in the context of environmental concerns, social divides, growth vs. inequity, war for talent, inclusiveness and the role of corporations in creating a more desirable future. Technical connectivity enhances the possibility of real time collective and purposive learning.
Complexity of these issues demands a new pedagogy, tools and processes. More of the same would not suffice. It is not that we may not know. It is also equally important to design new ways of prioritising, showing, experiencing, comprehending what we already know at a greater scale and pace. Knowledge architecture addresses these issues of crafting new ways of seeing, a prerequisite to creating a more desirable future. There are many ways to achieve this
Visemiotics is one. Symbols facilitate easier navigation than written text as in the case of GUI of computers and software applications. A picture is worth a thousand words. At times there is no substitute for a visual symbol as in the case of road signs. Some aspects can only be communicated through visual symbols and text often hides the big picture. The younger generation is more visually dependant than on any other stimuli for learning. The visual stimuli have the highest bandwidth too. Yet one cannot ignore any one since each one has their own preferences. Stories, storytelling, scenarios, dream work, models, experiential leaning, open space, real time management development, dialogues, a lot many tools are now available to take care of the process
The integral framework (see home) is a visual tool to accelerate mastery of some of these competencies.
Well. May be I am wrong. But this is how I define my work as knowledge architect
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JM, thank you for answering my question. It appears that knowledge architects define their own framework of learning, what to learn and also how to learn, given the many choices for each, and also the impossibility of using all.
And also, that this helps the KA to leap out of the traditional rote learning [at least, traditional in the east..and perhaps Europe]. Am I right in understanding this meaning?
hi Meenakshi
I dont know how to thank you. You are 'life' right and also give me ideas as to how to elaborate on the last part of your comment - leaping out of the traditional to take the road not travelled. well that could be my next blog on blue oceans.
“Knowledge is the sum of all that we know and the process is learning. The process is to connect, reflect and catalyze- better, faster and deeper.”
a wonderful defintion and summary.
“There is extreme urgency for rapid learning in the context of environmental concerns, social divides, growth vs. inequity, war for talent, inclusiveness and the role of corporations”
indeed. Just like manufacturing adopted the “Just In Time” Model to increase efficiency and reduce waste, learning too, will become “Just in Time”. Who knows what you need to learn in 10-15 years time? So why try teaching certain subjects in High School when they might not be relevant in the future? teach kids HOW TO LEARN, not WHAT TO LEARN. Just in Time Learning is the way of the future; and this “rapid learning” that you reference ties deeply into that.
cheers,
wanderer7