The Social in the Visual

Figures: the social in the visual has reached 1! Given that we have reached 1, we thought it was a good time to discuss making some changes to our website. The main reason for this is that we want to become more transparent to our readers. In changing the website, we aim to change the role of the user and change the role of the writer to enhance interactivity. So one thing we are planning to do is, rather than you having to post your names, we propose that the system automatically generates a number, e.g., “reader 1, 2 etc.”. We have had some feedback that writing a comment can be rather intimidating, so we hope that this will create a level of anonymity for you.

We also want to make the visuals more dominant, we are the social in the visual after all! So we are considering that the first page of the site is a list of the visuals with the associated headings without the contextual statement. We are hoping that by focusing on the visuals it will help us in constructing our aesthetic. There will still be the opportunity to post, and we will still keep tags, but we are planning to categorise the information via the outputs. This we hope, will provide a different way of building links with potentially diverse content.

We think that it is about time that we have a “Contact Us” section for you to email any suggestions on the content or future content, or anything that you want to really. Regarding Figures content, we are considering focusing on one major project for a dedicated time, allowing us to work towards a number of outputs: the website, public projection work (see our recent post “Swine Flu”), locative media work (see the post “Locative Infodesign”), booklets / prited material (see “Figures 001: Explosion Over The Horizon”) and many other possibilities. In conjunction to this, we will have a series of sub-projects on the go at anytime, so please keep having a look. We plan to submit new postings at the end of each month, keeping you up to date with our stuff! And, we also want to include questions for you, so we can develop converstaions. So please let us know what you think regarding our birthday makeover plans.

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