The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 4: Cartography and constructing the atlas

 

Chapter 4 of the ATLAS OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY is really our methods chapter; that is, how did we go about doing our research for the book.

 

Our approach is a critical cartography. More than just stating the facts, this Atlas is about the ways in which we can reimagine the global landscape of social complexity such that we discover new borders of knowledge. Our map is one of the present future, as we could best identify it, looking for common trends and trajectories. The adjacent possible to the current situation.

 

In compiling the Atlas, we relied on several sources.

·      This includes 41 interviews with a wide variety of people, from scientists to artists and practitioners. As interviewers, we focused on how these people enact the transdisciplinary nature of the complexity sciences by addressing some combination of the thirteen situations.

·      We also review the source materials we used for each of the chapters; and end by highlighting the role that art plays in the themes and chapters.

 

KEY WORDS: complexity map, cartography, mapping science, history of science, complexity sciences, Foucault and genealogy.

 

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