EXPERIMENTS ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS MAPPING AROUND MATERIALS.

Nowadays, information about almost every topic are connected, accessible and not only bounded into the academic, “disciplinary” field. The need of keeping trace of the collection and elaboration of those information has been manifested through the years by the development of a plethora of different tools, methods and strategies. The proposed RTD experiments have been built upon a common design tool (the mind/concept map), but with a different, lateral approach to the mapping activity itself. By mixing common design tools (maps) directly with “extraneous” platforms to the research practice (social networks), the authors propose an experimentation to keep the mapping activity an iterative, context-dependant and updated tool. Three different experimentations on mapping material related frameworks are presented and discussed, trying to identify a new disruptive approach where people can easily participate into the debate.