The Eiderdown project

Francesco Virili

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-2739-2_1

The Eiderdown project

Francesco Virili^*

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This chapter tells the story of the “Eiderdown project”, a graphical twodimensional map exploring the evolution of Organization and Information Systems, that Marco promoted and distributed with a group of friends, evolving it from a playful sensemaking tool to a smart interdisciplinary means of connecting people and generating ideas. The first release of Eiderdown appeared as a gigantic white-background table, and was therefore named “Lenzuolo” (= bedsheet). After several additions, the bedsheet grew in content and size, earning the name of “Eiderdown” (= duvet, continental quilt). The story is structured in four sections: 1) the reasons and background of the project, the founding group and its first objectives; 2) the underlying structure and principles; 3) the evolution and the contributions collected over time; 4) the final outcome, its use and some paths for further evolution

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Emerging Themes in Information Systems and Organization Studies
Pages	3-10
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2739-2_1
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Organization Theory
Information Systems

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