What is represented?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Application
Representation Audit
Representation Audit examines images, diagrams, symbols, screenshots, maps, statistics, and signs when they receive more authority than their traceability can bear.
Representation must refer to actuality. When representation replaces actuality, capture has occurred.
Questions / checks
What is selected?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
What is omitted?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
What is added?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
What status is claimed?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Can it be traced?
Use this as a diagnostic checkpoint in the case.
Everyday use
Use this page when a situation feels captured by a label, model, representation, word, system, authority, or practice.
The task is to return the frame to service of what is, not to destroy every frame.