L.A.T.C.H. Challenge

Richard Saul Wurman, co-founder of TED, popularized the idea of L.A.T.C.H. (aka LATCH ) in the 90s. It has become one of the more discussed ideas here at MtM.

Wurman claimed that you can organize any information (like an exhibition) in five ways only: by Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, or Hierarchy.

Challenge: Can you come up with a way to organize information that does NOT fall into one of the five L.A.T.C.H. methods?

Here they are:

Location:
By where. Exhibitions organized by regions of ancient world, orbital distance from sun, or height in rainforest canopy.

Alphabet:
In alpha (or numeric) order. Native words used in English, baseball uniforms by jersey number, inductees to hall of fame.

Time:
By chronology. Life work of artist, century of mops, timeline of New Jersey authors.

Category:
By similarity. Skeletons by phylum, sculptors by medium, musicians by instrument.

Hierarchy (aka Continuum):
Along a spectrum of common measure. Birds small to large, rockets by short range to long, songs by weeks at #1.

Here’s the thing:
L.A.T.C.H. proposes that there are only five ways to organize information: Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, or Hierarchy.

Can you come up with a way that does NOT fit into one of the five categories?

Hit REPLY and LMK!

Warmly,
Jonathan

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MtM Word of the Day:
L.A.T.C.H., or LATCH. A theory, proposed by Richard Saul Wurman in the 1990s, that you can organize any information (such as an exhibition) in only five ways: by Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, or Hierarchy (aka Continuum).