Quadrants of social and physical environments

Quadrants of social and physical environments

If there were a way to elegantly and with robust coherency represent four dimensions in a two dimensional format, this is one of the spots where I would use it. 

Our entire environment is deeply intertwingled. Each of these quadrants are affected by countless systems, and each of those systems are connected with a level of interdependence that I don’t think we’ve begun to really understand. If we did, there would be zero fight left in the ‘global warming is a hoax’ camp.

When you look at this circumnavigating band, consider it a flattened cross-sectional micro-thin layer representing the pixelated connections that support a single human life, so dense it looks like a solid field. It’s still an egregious over-simplification.

Quick explanation of the model structure

The absolutely shortest: it's two crossed spectrum nodes with the interstitial area labeled.

It's also been made into a donut to allow for nested nodes that are coming.


This is a summative/synopsis model of the environment sub-model in who-ness.

Reference disciplines include sociology, biology, psychology, anthropology, and UX research and design. Impacts of technology on society also contributed, but with a lower weight until AI.