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Klaus Krippendorff

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Klaus Krippendorff

Klaus Krippendorff was a scholar of communication and design whose work centered meaning, language, and human-centered design.

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Klaus Krippendorff is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

Relevance to Knowledge Flow

Krippendorff belongs in Knowledge Flow because he frames design as the shaping of meaning rather than artifacts alone.

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Work by Klaus Krippendorff

Book

The Semantic Turn

A New Foundation for Design

Design is shifting from making objects to shaping meanings. The Semantic Turn argues that people interact with artifacts through interpretation, language, and use rather than through function alone.

Knowledge Flow

  • Knowledge Architecture
  • Knowledge Structures · contextualizes