Clients10 x 10 An interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time Billy Collins Action Poetry Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” Brainswork Ideas in Progress The brainswork-group is the business development network operating worldwide, a boutique provider of creative connections to people & ideas. Chris Jordan Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Christiaan Postma The progress of time is shown by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks. Corriere della Sera The Paolo Fallai article about Visualizing Time Edward Tufte Edward Tufte has written seven award-winning books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. Fidg’t Visualizer The Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. In Praise of Slow Carl Honoré wrote about the Slow Revolution. Information Aesthetics Weblog exploring the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization. Jesson Yip Analogy clock to download Kronos The Kronos article on Visualizing Time KV on Wikipedia Knowledge Visualization on Wikipedia Navreme Knowledge Development Expert network that covers the fields of education, policy making, and quality assurance across Europe oSkope Visual Search A visual browser that let’s you search in an intuitive way. Re Corvo Web Studio Web and multimedia – Re Corvo has designed and engineered the Visualizing Time database Slow Food Eco-gastronomy – a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet. Smashing Magazine Ten creative ways to display time Society for Deceleration of Time Suggesting a thoughtful attitude towards time on a collective basis. Spiral Clock Bus schedule visualizer Technorati Blog Reactions All the blog reactions on the Icastic Visualizing Time research. TextArc A visual represention of a text on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary, TextArc uses the viewer’s eye to help uncover meaning. The Arrow of Time One family photograph every year The Long Now Foundation The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. Time Calculators Visual Complexity A visual exploration on mapping complex networks Visual Thesaurus An interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning. Waitless
Fast-forward through the boring parts of lfe We feel fine A changing by the hour exploration of human emotion in six movements, by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar World of Experience Journey to another realm of human existence: the world of human experience. Worldmapper The world as you’ve never seen it before Zen Habits “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Visualizing10 x 10 An interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time Billy Collins Action Poetry Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” Brainswork Ideas in Progress The brainswork-group is the business development network operating worldwide, a boutique provider of creative connections to people & ideas. Chris Jordan Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Christiaan Postma The progress of time is shown by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks. Corriere della Sera The Paolo Fallai article about Visualizing Time Edward Tufte Edward Tufte has written seven award-winning books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. Fidg’t Visualizer The Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. In Praise of Slow Carl Honoré wrote about the Slow Revolution. Information Aesthetics Weblog exploring the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization. Jesson Yip Analogy clock to download Kronos The Kronos article on Visualizing Time KV on Wikipedia Knowledge Visualization on Wikipedia Navreme Knowledge Development Expert network that covers the fields of education, policy making, and quality assurance across Europe oSkope Visual Search A visual browser that let’s you search in an intuitive way. Re Corvo Web Studio Web and multimedia – Re Corvo has designed and engineered the Visualizing Time database Slow Food Eco-gastronomy – a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet. Smashing Magazine Ten creative ways to display time Society for Deceleration of Time Suggesting a thoughtful attitude towards time on a collective basis. Spiral Clock Bus schedule visualizer Technorati Blog Reactions All the blog reactions on the Icastic Visualizing Time research. TextArc A visual represention of a text on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary, TextArc uses the viewer’s eye to help uncover meaning. The Arrow of Time One family photograph every year The Long Now Foundation The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. Time Calculators Visual Complexity A visual exploration on mapping complex networks Visual Thesaurus An interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning. Waitless
Fast-forward through the boring parts of lfe We feel fine A changing by the hour exploration of human emotion in six movements, by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar World of Experience Journey to another realm of human existence: the world of human experience. Worldmapper The world as you’ve never seen it before Zen Habits “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Time10 x 10 An interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time Billy Collins Action Poetry Collins sees his poetry as “a form of travel writing” and considers humor “a door into the serious.” Brainswork Ideas in Progress The brainswork-group is the business development network operating worldwide, a boutique provider of creative connections to people & ideas. Chris Jordan Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Christiaan Postma The progress of time is shown by letting the numbers be written in words by the clockworks. Corriere della Sera The Paolo Fallai article about Visualizing Time Edward Tufte Edward Tufte has written seven award-winning books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. Fidg’t Visualizer The Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. In Praise of Slow Carl Honoré wrote about the Slow Revolution. Information Aesthetics Weblog exploring the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization. Jesson Yip Analogy clock to download Kronos The Kronos article on Visualizing Time KV on Wikipedia Knowledge Visualization on Wikipedia Navreme Knowledge Development Expert network that covers the fields of education, policy making, and quality assurance across Europe oSkope Visual Search A visual browser that let’s you search in an intuitive way. Re Corvo Web Studio Web and multimedia – Re Corvo has designed and engineered the Visualizing Time database Slow Food Eco-gastronomy – a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet. Smashing Magazine Ten creative ways to display time Society for Deceleration of Time Suggesting a thoughtful attitude towards time on a collective basis. Spiral Clock Bus schedule visualizer Technorati Blog Reactions All the blog reactions on the Icastic Visualizing Time research. TextArc A visual represention of a text on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary, TextArc uses the viewer’s eye to help uncover meaning. The Arrow of Time One family photograph every year The Long Now Foundation The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. Time Calculators Visual Complexity A visual exploration on mapping complex networks Visual Thesaurus An interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning. Waitless
Fast-forward through the boring parts of lfe We feel fine A changing by the hour exploration of human emotion in six movements, by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar World of Experience Journey to another realm of human existence: the world of human experience. Worldmapper The world as you’ve never seen it before Zen Habits “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
We all visualize more than we think, and this activity can be shared to help the orientation of the mind. Visualizing distils the essence of communication, renders complex ideas understandable during presentations, creates memorable imagery to foster and inspire teamwork.
Icastic offers a design service: we are graphic and web designers, illustrators and renderers specialized in visualizing.
Our clients are consultants, trainers, companies and organizations that make use of visuals in presentations to illustrate concepts, map processes, identify trends and envision scenarios.
Which is the relationship between higher education’s roles in reproduction of existing social structures and its roles in extending opportunities for social mobility and the achievement of greater social justice? For NESOR, a research project funded by the EU Socrates Programme, Icastic has helped navremeenvision the breaking of traditional roles and boundaries of the university of the future. The Lisbon Agenda of the EU (with its focus on competitiveness and employability), and the Bologna Process (with its attempts to achieve trans-national transparency of European Higher Education) have greatly influenced and upset Higher Education in Europe over the last decade. In addition, new global challenges, economic developments, and changing societal expectations have put new strains on our universities. Finally, New Social Risks have emerged, and result in new concerns for university students and alumni, but also current employees of HEIs. NESOR insistently asks the question of the future of university vis-á-vis the existence of new social risks, producing a policy brief for decision-makers, and daring to issue clear-cut recommendations how to shape the universities of the future.
TTplus is a Leonardo EU funded project that aims at the development of a framework for continous professional development of trainers, and currently investigating the actual practice of trainers throughout Europe. Icastic is helping TTplus visualize their project results. Camilla Torna gave a first input at the project meeting in Vienna in November 2007: the professional development of trainers should not only be considered as a lifelong learning process, creating a learning personality like a Giacometti figure, but also as a life wide learning process leading to a Botero shaped figure.
Icastic has developed the official site of Compasses Zoo together with Italian author and illustrator Daniele Nannini. The site is a container designed for children, teachers and all people that want to make the world rounder.
Reducing animal features to circles or sections of circle is especially helpful for developing visual capacities: the original idea by Nannini to create a series of animals with a geometric construction just made of circles was originally thought for children but also became popular among teachers and mathematicians from all over Europe.
“I am offering a new service that is not easy to explain. It helps evaluating the motivation and potential of staff members in medium/large organizations, but most Austrian companies look at it with suspicion – so Christine De Jong, Vienna. Icastic helped me conceive a metaphor that not only symbolizes the core business, but breaks the ice during presentations with a laugh”.
Image 1: Artist’s comment: Duration differs from time. There is nothing to move but it is contained.
Image 2: Artist’s comment: Now, emerging from duration, time has passed. Stuff is all around, moving.
These two images project a challenging view of time. In Image 1, the curved line around the central dot can be seen as the two-dimensional cross section of a vessel containing a nucleus but otherwise empty. This in turn may be imagined as the universe before the Big Bang – the open line representing an imaginary boundary, the dot representing the compressed nucleus of matter.
In Image 2, the Big Bang occurs, matter is dispersed throughout space. A wonderful depiction of the history of time! We can imagine that time began with the Big Bang, and that, if time had a beginning, it may well have an end, possibly when matter fills all of space. The artist alludes to the no-time state as ‘duration’, which we have imagined as the timeless condition before the Big Bang. Thus, he pictures the transition from no-time to time as the advent and dispersion of matter, tieing time to matter. In totally empty infinity time is unimaginable. Nor can we imagine time in infinity totally filled with matter. These are but two of hundreds of images collected in visualization workshops that challenge our imagination to ponder the mystery of time.
While working together with the members of the Society for Deceleration of Time [ Verein zur Verzögerung der Zeit - the name is left long on purpose so that we are all forced to take the time to pronounce it... ] in the workshop Visualizing Time, it was only a natural consequence to try and visualize the second subject ot the Symposium, Education. Many images that emerged were given a title: The Edge of Knowledge, Beware of my Education, L’enfant farci, Endless Fill. Here a crumpled paper, with cancelled words, a hole in the centre: Eureka.
Icastic Visualizing Time will be presented in Wagrain, Austria at the annual Symposium of the Society for Deceleration of Time.
This year’s topic “Zeit und Bildung” can hardly be translated into “Time and Education”. A beautiful word in German, Bildung incorporates the notion of Bild (image) as to suggest the capacity, through training, of envisioning a life’s professional path, as well as the notion of Bilden, “forming” or shaping a student to learn and achieve her/his potential.
The non-profit Society for Deceleration of Time was founded in 1990 by professor Dr. Peter Heintel, Klagenfurt, Austria, as an approach to suggest a thoughtful attitude towards time on a collective basis seeking new ways of dealing with the phenomon of time. The name of the society is meant to be somewhat provocative. However, it is also suggesting that the subject of deceleration should be given more attention in our culture and the present time than is the case in the process of acceleration we are exposed to.
“Icastic was of great help in visualizing our complex set of services which we exactly customize to the needs of our clients – so Selma Prodanovic,Brainswork CNO. We do not focus on networking alone, but use the potential of human interaction to coach a company from before birth to the first steps alone. It is a complex activity that sometimes is hard to put into words. Icastic successfully rendered the complexity of the process that helps our clients connect with the rest of the world”.
GYLC Global Young Leaders Conference, a slideshow presented in Vienna [Austria] on July 8, 2007 | by CNO Selma Prodanovic
“The challenge here – so Camilla Torna, Icastic – was to surprise a group of young professionals, future executives probably more used to down-to-earth data charting, with an abstract and dreamlike vision of a connected world. A vision not just evocative, though, but able to visualize strategies and processes”.
"The English term defining this capacity - that we use every day, most of the time unconsciously - is «imagery», meaning a representation of reality through mental images. Unfortunately the Italian term «immaginazione» is not as precise, since it recalls instead a variety of meanings linked with fantasizing or with desiring that something will happen (closer this way to the English term «imagination»).
This is exactly what Icastic deals with: imagery more than imagination.
This is also what Italo Calvino refers to, in the chapter Visibility of Six Memos: a basic human faculty, the power of focusing on visions with our eyes closed, [...] to think per images.
Action Learning, a slideshow presented in Lisbon [Portugal] on February 26, 2007 | by Janet Meli MSc
A step-by-step visualization of the meaning of Action Learning: a process which brings people together to find solutions to a real problem and, in doing so, develops both the individual and the organisation.
Training Exchange Programme, a slideshow presented in Bruxelles [Belgium] on December 5, 2006 | by Mag. Elisabeth Zinschitz
A step-by-step 26 slides visualization of the process that exchangees go through: from the first selection to the support needed to start the learning process, from the role of the tutor to the final cascading.
