Le Zhang 张乐


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Le Zhang is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and freelance writer. With the matured skills of a designer and the insights of an anthropologist, she is dedicated to exploring material culture that crosses geographical boundaries and conducting investigations in a creative manner. Viewing design as a thought catalyst, her work encompasses multimedia content production.

After graduating from the Royal College of Art, she founded the cultural design studio Earth Buffet, focusing on geospatial food research, design, and investigation. She is also the co-founder of Outland Publishing Fair and the publishing group Aphakia. She now works as a researcher in Innovation Design at CAFA and as staff in the OTBT anthropology field school.


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Figurative System of Human Knowledge





Zine
Mapping
2023

The Figurative System of Human Knowledge, also known as the Tree of Diderot and d'Alembert, is a tree-structured system of knowledge. This system was created for the Encyclopédie, published in 1751.

This zine is a trilingual Chinese-English-French comparison reading of the Figurative System of Human Knowledge.  Each section has been separated from the original tree diagram and enlarged to single pages for easier reading.  Additionally, the original explanatory text is included to help understand the classification logic.  Even though the classification system of the Figurative System of Human Knowledge may seem "outdated" today, it was quite innovative in the 18th century.  Through this, we can get a glimpse of European society during the Enlightenment and understand the "advanced" knowledge and perceptions of the world held by Europeans at that time.

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