A Topological Approach to Designing and Constructing Dynamical Visual Metaphors of Multicultur and Intercultural Systems

Jesús Rodriguez, Raúl Hernández, Mariela Cerrada Lozada

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Abstract

A topological approach to the multiculturality, and the interculturality, permits associating these phenomena to the internal topological organization of societies. Multiculturality is supported by disjoint topological coverings that block the interac-tions between all different monocultural subgroups. Topologically speaking, it is not possible to design and develop inter-cultural societies without substituting the disjoint topological coverings, by coverings with non-empty local intersections that allows interactions preserving diversity. Along the essay we illustrate the proposed concepts through visual metaphori-cal representations of the monocultural societies of the Blues and the Reds, consisting of abstract digital mosaics, which eventually conform the first multicultural society. From time to time, however, for different kind of reasons, there will ap-pear some strange individuals, the mutants, and representatives of future intercultural possibilities.
Translated title of the contributionUn enfoque topológico para diseñar y construir metáforas visuales dinámicas de sistemas multiculturales e interculturales
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1316-7081
Number of pages5766
JournalRevista Ciencia e Ingeniería
Volume40
Issue number40
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2019

Keywords

  • Dynamical systems
  • Interculturalism
  • Mathematics
  • Metaphors
  • Models
  • Multiculturalism
  • Topology

CACES Knowledge Areas

  • 727A Industrial and process design

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