Create knowledge with maps

Six knowledge mapping techniques are key for creating knowledge. These techniques help learners, educators, and researchers to generate new ideas, create rich pictures, develop backward strategies to achieve new visions, build networks, design workflows, and elaborate sequential processes.

Imagining for creating knowledge:

• Mindmaps: Facilitate brainstorming and the organization of ideas visually.
• Backcasting Maps: Elaborate new visions by planning backward from a desired future to identify necessary steps.

Synthetising for creating knowledge:

• Rich Picture Maps: Use images to represent complex information and foster deeper understanding.
• Web Maps: Create networks and connections between different concepts and ideas.

Innovating for creating knowledge:

• Activity Maps: Design new processes by modeling workflows and identifying key activities.
• Sequence Maps: Illustrate interactions among elements in a system, highlighting the order and dependencies of events.