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The Information Space, or I-Space was developed by Max Boisot as a conceptual framework relating the degree of structure of knowledge to its diffusibility as that knowledge develops.
This results in four different types of knowledge.
The I-Space model is commonly shown as a cube with three axes: abstraction, codification and diffusion. A social learning cycle is drawn, showing how as knowledge is increasingly moved from concrete experiential Zen type knowledge to codified highly abstract , where it is increasingly easy for it to diffuse independently of the knowledge holder. Once internalised it moves back to the concrete.
The I-Space framework is an acknowledged early influence on the development of the Cynefin framework.