Designing Universal Knowledge: the World as Flatland -report 1 / The World as Flatland – Report 1 – Gerlinde Schuller Lage Kosten

The development of modern communication and information technologies like the Internet and globalization have not only changed access and spread of the available knowledge but also the speed of collecting. The author examines collections of knowledge such as archives, encyclopedias, data collections, and libraries that make knowledge accessible worldwide. Who is collecting the world’s knowledge? How is it structured and designed? Who determines the access of knowledge? Designers and researchers from differe…