I’ve had a few long conversations about this map…like all of them, it’s useful up to a point but this particular landscape undergoes a lot of continental drift, and this render misses a lot of islands and doesn’t show the “traffic” of people and projects that migrate between locations at all.
I have multiple friends working on adaptive maps of similar spaces that automatically update. Maybe I can patch you all together?
And I have an approach to mapping the idea-space in my own work that could be easily expanded to present something more comprehensive and inclusive.
If y’all are in “collective intelligence map update” mode count me in. Right now my main concern with this is that it is going to drive “rich get richer” traffic to established (and in some cases deceased) entities, and could use some counterweighting to surface emergent entities, long-range relationships, and more of a data-based, rather than folk taxonomy that reveals shifts along a time axis, scales in resolution, shows hot spots, and identifies bridge agents and active partnerships rather than implying a static landscape of mainly institutional actors.
There’s also an opportunity to discover features that weren’t present at the outset…to identify latent relationships. Letting people get under the hood with this and understand (and alter!) the underlying rule set for how it was generated would be really fruitful, in terms of proposing new collaborations, etc.
If y’all are committed to resolution at institutional scale, consider adding “species range”/“habitat” overlays that show how key individuals flock between these domains (like the invisible diaspora from Integral Institute to several of these other orgs).
And I’d like to see “trade networks” of idea flow/citation/influence.
All of this is possible with available public records and not much human labor, at least to first approximation.
(Caveat that I don’t know much about how much effort by how many people went into that first map, or how much input from mapped entities was solicited. It’s definitely cool, and necessary work. My above remarks are geared toward how to make a tool like this as useful as possible and how to ensure each update duplicates as little assumed-scarce work as possible.)
I’ll try to follow this forum thread but I’m definitely in to talk real-time on calls or play a part in email threads as this evolves.