Visual Symbols
The role of the visual symbols is to reframe how we tend to think of certain parameters. Time is a good example: to differentiate how we percieve the time-scale for cooking food (minutes or hours) from the time-scale of bio-making (minutes, hours, days, weeks), two different symbols for ‘time’ are created. An hour-glass to represent minutes or hours, which often require precision, and a half-sun half-moon to represent ‘overnight’ waiting; days or weeks - a duration that tends to involve growth and hence depends on environmental factors like temperature, humidity.
Some of the symbols’ interpretation are less specific which allows them to describe different phenomena. They can be understood in context (e.g. cross-locality can represent heat transfer in thermodynamics, specie migration in ecological terms, or contamination in bio-making).
