A multi-metaphor method would be suitable for questions that demand an integrated approach, like the questions of good public space, urban mobility, urban socio-economic integration, greener cities, and so on.
Deleuze and Guattari [23] rebelled against this singularness and suggested the rhizome as a metaphor and method for understanding the deeply subjective and complex worlds we inhabit.
Germonprez et al. [13] proposed a more extensive list with nine principles: task setting, recognizable components, recognizable conventions, outward representation, metaphor, tools, methods, functional characteristics and user representation.
To adopt a statistical metaphor, such methods are not only concerned with the 'main effects' on performance of individual system components, but also the shifting, dynamic 'interactions' between them.
Cyberspace cartographies are a significant area of creativity in contemporary mapmaking, with a considerable amount of experimentation with visual metaphors, survey methods, data sources, and novel forms of user interaction with map representations.
In addressing the challenges posed by emerging biotechnologies, new light can be thrown on old problems in the philosophy of biology, such as the nature of the organism, the structure of biological teleology, the utility of engineering metaphors and methods in biological science, and humankind's relationship to nature.
The best metaphor for the method behind her rollicking, erudite, street-smart, angst-ridden, encyclopedic paintings is writing.
Message content in anti-smoking public service announcements (PSAs) can be delivered explicitly (directly with concrete statements) or implicitly (indirectly via metaphor), and the method of delivery may affect the efficacy of those PSAs.
There was an obvious urban metaphor in the method of endlessly destroying and repainting that Mr. Auerbach adopted, but he talked instead about the influences of de Kooning, Soutine, Rubens, obvious suspects, and also about a formative stretch in a life-drawing class taught by the artist David Bomberg.
The metaphor for our method is bar codes partially illuminated by a beam of light with an adjustable width; the width chosen is that which gives the most significant match of the illuminated section to the corresponding portion of the reference profile.
Mr. Schimmel notes in his essay that she has a Ping-Pong table in her studio and he finds the game an apt metaphor for her methods.
