The circle is a design pattern for local knowledge networks, organized around a core of people, a passion, a place or a practice. I set it against the inverse tree of courses and degrees, which is how universities like to arrange things.
How the word moved
I wrote it up in July 2014, in Designing Knowledge I: Circles, and it's stayed a single sense since.
In my words
"A better pattern for knowledge networks, especially local knowledge networks is the circle."
from Designing Knowledge I: Circles, 28 Jul 2014
Related
- Related Epistry - circles are what fluid knowledge networks look like.
- Related Collective Wisdom - knowledge as networks of people.