On the first Principles session, we were introduced to the theory created by Richard Saul Wurman, ‘LATCH’, that is a method of organization. The ‘LATCH’ includes Location; Age; Time; Category and Hierarchy. this is the way of making sense of information through design. Even though it’s really simple, it’s a great way to find relationships between totally different objects.

Objects we gathered 

First of all, we were asked to put out our belongings and lay them on the table. The table got messy and so did our minds. There were so many possibilities of organizing the objects, according to colour, size, shape, age and etc. The process of the finding was the most interesting part, especially when the connections got a bit

Categorised by colour

obvious. At first, we liked the idea of categorising by colour as we realised there was a huge colour diversity. But wanted something ‘better’, something that would be unique and fascinating to find. One of us discovered that most of the objects were circle shapes, or had a circular surface. So it started…

We got rid of the objects that didn’t fit ‘circle’ category and looked at the circles, some were big, some were small, so we laid them according to the size of the circle surface; height of the objects that were circular and colour. Finding the best way to show the organization of the relationship between these circles was quite challenging. We wanted to find the ‘best’ solution and decided to create a short ‘stop motion’ video that would show the hierarchy of the objects. As we didn’t have much time for this exercise, and the process of finding took the most of the time we didn’t have enough time to record good quality video and then edit it. But teamwork took it’s time here, we chose 3 categories, colour; height and surface size. So we took three different stop-motion videos that would show how it goes from the shortest or the smallest to the biggest.

Size hierarchy of the circular objects