Quadrants of social and physical environments
Targeted by two crossed spectrum nodes
Donut-shaped super-node divided into four quadrants. Each quadrant is labeled, from the upper left and counter-clockwise: safety, health, expression, flow state. The lines dividing the quadrants are labeled at their ends. The vertical line has "high functioning" at the top, and "baseline" at the bottom. The horizontal line has "surviving" to the left and "thriving" to the right.
If there were a way to elegantly and with robust coherency represent four dimensions in a two dimensional format, this is one of the spots where I would use it.
Our entire environment is deeply intertwingled. Each of these quadrants are affected by countless systems, and each of those systems are connected with a level of interdependence that I don’t think we’ve begun to really understand. If we did, there would be zero fight left in the ‘global warming is a hoax’ camp.
When you look at this circumnavigating band, consider it a flattened cross-sectional micro-thin layer representing the pixelated connections that support a single human life, so dense it looks like a solid field. It’s still an egregious over-simplification.
Reference disciplines include sociology, biology, psychology, anthropology, and UX research and design. Impacts of technology on society also contributed, but with a lower weight.