Conceptual map

Conceptual Maps are simple and practical knowledge representation tools that allow you to convey complex conceptual messages in a clear, understandable way. They facilitate both teaching and learning. Moreover they are represented naturally as graphs.

From a paper by Juan C. Dürsteler

Graph Nodes represent the concepts (or the main ideas), Graph Links represent the relationship between the concepts and any consideration can be developed around this ones.



An example:

A Basic Multilingual Dictionary

TO BE CONTINUED

An Inquiry in the Textile World

The artifact, the tool, the machine

Albrecht Duerer, Melencolia (1514)

The artifact (artefatto (IT); artefact (FR); artfacto (SP); Artefakt (DE); 品, 伪 (Chinese))is the produce of an intentional activity that modifies the natural reality.

The tool (utensìle (IT); outil (FR); Werkzeug (DE); utensilio (SP); 工具 (Chinese)) is an artifact that extends the human capabilities, a prosthesis of the body.

The machine, or better the engine (macchina (IT); machine (FR); maquina (SP); Maschine (DE); 机 (Chinese)) is a device that by using a resource transforms the structure of a system.

HOMEWORK: find in the Duerer engraving Melencoloia the artifacts, the tools, and the machines.

Here the first reply by Vito Domenico Vinella.

Mythology

Within textile material culture the myth of Penelope can be assumed as a pivot for any future consideration. In the following some suggestions from the Iliad and from the Odyssey written by Homer.

Text & Textile, in Ancient World

The Fabric of Myth

Do Undo Man Woman - 做 不做 男 女

This is the title of the course, and, in the following, the words chosen for starting an elementary multilingual dictionary are reported in the sequence (Student, English term, Italian term):

ALMGREN TESSUTO TISSUE
BARBERIS CUCIRE TO SEW
BARONE TAGLIARE TO CUT
BELLESINI ARIA AIR
BROLIN RETE NET
BRUCCO FILO THREAD
CAMORALI CUOIO LEATHER
CANDILORO PIETRA STONE
CAPPONE OSSO BONE
CARCIONE ACQUA WATER
CARNEVALE TORCERE TO TWIST
CAVALLIN CONTARE TO COUNT
CHAI COPPIA COUPLE, PAIR
CHENG SINGOLO SINGLE
CORINTO FONDERE TO MOULD
COUVINHAS FERRO IRON
ESPOSITO MAGLIA KNITTING
ESPRO PIEGARE TO BEND
FAN TANTI MULTIPLE, MANY
FARETINA TERRA EARTH
GAROFALO COMPERARE TO BUY
LAZZARI INTRECCIARE TO WEAVE
LI ESSERE TO BE
MICELLI STRAPPARE TO TEAR
MUNULLI FUOCO FIRE
NIKFAM BOTTONE BUTTON
PONTE LAVARE TO WASH
RAIMONDO RICORDARE TO REMEMBER
RUBEGA FORMARE TO FORM
SACCO NODO KNOT
SPAGNOLO TINGERE TO PAINT
STROPPIANA SCRIVERE TO WRITE
TANGI LEGNO WOOD
VARGIU VETRO GLASS
VINELLA VENDERE TO SELL
WEI AVERE TO HAVE
ZHANG FARE TO DO
ZHAO DISEGNARE TO DRAW

The students are invited to produce some cardboard panels like the following:

A Game

Words are the elements of any history, languages and dialects are their local declinations. Following the model of the Rimmemo (R) game, the students will be suggested to prepare some tokens where ideograms, pictures and words contribute to an essential Basic Language for the History of Material Culture.
The rime will help to memorize...

The "Crafts ABC"...