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I'm a synthesizer. I make large artistic info-murals about public policy issues for international task forces and governments.

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What we do not know: Using information murals to portray scientific ignorance

eJournal of Education Policy

The philosophers magazine, 1999

Let me confess right at the outset that I am truly enthusiastic about this project: It could cons... more Let me confess right at the outset that I am truly enthusiastic about this project: It could constitute the beginning of a new phase in academic teaching. I will use this in my own teaching of philosophy of mind as soon as I have a chance, and I definitely look forward to the experience. This is not to deny the existence of a number of disadvantages and possible dangers associated with these new didactic materials for the mind sciences (see below); however, all in all, what we are here witnessing are the first fruits of an exciting and promising project. It deserves all the support it can get.

ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation, 1999

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004

: The need and use of visual languages in complex situations is outlined.

ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation, 1992

The frontispiece of this book shows a plump, happy faced youth dressed in the clothes of several ... more The frontispiece of this book shows a plump, happy faced youth dressed in the clothes of several hundred years ago with a funnel sticking out of the top of his head. Two teachers are industriously pouring large amounts of liquid knowledge into his head. This is the Nürnberg Funnel. It was supposed to "makes people wise quickly." But the author of this book says, "There is not and never was a Nürnberg Funnel." (p. 102) "Nevertheless the need to make people wise very quickly is often overwhelming. And in trying to make instruction efficient, designers have frequently lapsed into trying to pour information into the learner's head.

Educational Technology, 1974

Performance + Instruction, 1993

New Scientist, 2011

Big business, rich elites, poverty protesters, desperate refugees, beleaguered NGOs… Twenty years... more Big business, rich elites, poverty protesters, desperate refugees, beleaguered NGOs… Twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit, we seem as divided as ever, but if we want a sustainable future we must look for consensus across the divide, urges Robert E. Horn

ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation, 1981

International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, 2005

... Horn, RE 2001b. Ideology Map of Jihad. PDF download. Horn, RE 2001c. Knowledge Mapping for Co... more ... Horn, RE 2001b. Ideology Map of Jihad. PDF download. Horn, RE 2001c. Knowledge Mapping for Complex Social Messes. Foundations in the Knowledge Economy. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, July 16, 2001. Horn, RE 2002. ...