TALAMANA · A WALK

THE IMAGE MACHINE

A ready-made path through Talamana that ends at "Text-to-image vs image-to-image". One tap sets the goal; the route is your syllabus.

Take this walk on the map · The complete map

Age grows from 11 at the centre to 22 at the edge, and six sectors show the learning strands. Tab into the map and the arrow keys step from idea to idea, following the links where there is one. Enter opens the idea under the cursor, and E reads out its links and the reason recorded on each. Press slash for Search, question mark for the full key list, and Escape to leave. Open Ideas for the complete readable list, including what each idea builds on and what it opens up.

LOGIKA · RBDS AI LAB INDIA

ON-RAMP · AGE 11 · FIRST ENCOUNTERS, NOT GATES — IDEAS · — DEPENDENCIES

DONE

OPENS NEXT

SOLID — STANDS ON

THE FIELD

Rings are ages, 11 at the centre to 22 at the edge. An age marks a possible first encounter, never who is allowed to learn it.

Sectors are the six strands the ideas belong to.

THE LINKS

Solid — this idea stands on that one. Your route includes it.

Dashed — helpful support. Never a compulsory step.

Every link carries a written reason. Hover the line to read it, press E on the idea, or open the card.

THE IDEAS

Done — you marked it. Opens next — its foundations are marked.

Start here — the on-ramp, ages 11 to 15.

Judgment — a four-point star. Shown in crit, not by a quiz.

Positional — twin marks. The Lab's own view or method, with the case against it on the card.

KEYS

Tab into the map, then ←→↑↓ to step from idea to idea along the links.

Enter opens the idea under the cursor. E reads out each link and its written reason. Shift + arrows pans instead.

/ search · 0 full map · B back to the last view · R your route · ? this panel · Esc closes.

AGE RINGS 11—22
6 STRANDS / — IDEAS

SOLVER 00:00.00
POINT FIELD ACTIVE

TALAMANA

A LIVING MAP, REVISED EVERY EDITION

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— IDEAS 06 STRANDS 11—22 FIRST ENCOUNTERS

TALAMANA / THE AI LITERACY MAP FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

Understand AIbefore you ask it to design.

— connected ideas, from first principles to studio judgment. Every idea shows what it stands on, what it opens next, how to test it, and where its claims come from. Free and open.

Enter the full map, or find the path made for you.

A LIVING MAP, REVISED EVERY EDITION

IDEA

YOUR DRAFT ROUTE

YOUR GOAL-TO-SYLLABUS ROUTE

There is a path.

OPTIONAL CONNECTIONS

Helpful links can deepen the route, but they are never compulsory steps.

COME BACK TO THIS

Your place on this route is kept in this browser.

Progress is saved in this browser only. Sign in to keep it across devices. COMING IN V1 — submitting work for crit, and certificates.

COMPLETE MAP · — IDEAS

THE COMPLETE IDEAS LIST

Every idea, fully readable

Use Up and Down to move through all the ideas. Enter opens one and moves the map to it. Each row names what the idea builds on, what it opens up, and why each link exists.

FIND AN IDEA

Search all — ideas

CREDITS / PRINCIPLES

BUILT IN INDIA · REVISED EVERY EDITION

About Talamana

Talamana is a map for architecture and design students. It connects ideas about AI with the choices you make in your work.

It is built from the published work and teaching practice of Sahil Tanveer — architect, author, educator and AI-in-design researcher; founder of Red Brick Design Studio (RBDS) and RBDS AI Lab, India.

287 ideas · 614 links · 6 strands · ages 11–22

Find a way in

Choose an idea you want to understand. Its card explains it and shows what it builds on. Strong links lead to its foundations; helpful links are optional.

The age rings suggest when to first meet an idea. You can explore at any age.

Take it into your work

Talamana is a textbook, not a manual. It gives you the ideas; it does not teach any tool step by step.

Try an idea in a design project and discuss your choices with someone else. Mark an idea done and the ideas that stand on it open. Cards list their sources and mark the Lab's own views, so you can question what you read.

The map is free and open. It is revised every edition.

Read more: About · The method · Sources · Open data

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Account

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Carry your place to another device

You do not need an account. Copy the code below, open Talamana on the other device, and paste it there. The code holds only which ideas you have marked and where you were going. It carries no name, no email and no notes.

YOUR CODE

PASTE A CODE FROM ANOTHER DEVICE

Loading a code never erases what is already here. The two records are merged, and the further-along mark on each idea is the one that is kept.

Sources and licences

The 22 on-ramp ideas are adapted from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The dataset is open and downloadable at github.com/rbdsailab/talamana.

The data is licensed under ODbL.

The text is licensed under CC BY-SA.

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OPEN DATA · OPEN TEXT · BUILT BY LOGIKA, RBDS AI LAB, INDIA

WALKS — SEVEN READY-MADE PATHS

Pick a walk. It sets a goal and builds your syllabus.

FIND MY PATH — WHO ARE YOU HERE AS?

Four ways in, one map. A lens changes where you start and what you are asked to do. It never hides an idea. Hover a lens to see its starting points light up on the field.

Age marks a possible first encounter with an idea. It is never a restriction on who may learn it.

EXPLAINER

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THE FIELD

Enter the learning field.

Drag the field. Zoom in. Age grows outward. Six strands hold the circle together.

Start at the cyan core for the earliest on-ramp ideas, or search for a question you already have.

This demonstration uses the live map. Its search, mark, and route are cleared when you leave.