Encyclopedia of Big Pictures

The Encyclopedia of Big Pictures (EBP) is a joint project between The Archdisciplinary Research Center (ARC) and the Institute of Applied Metatheory (IAM).

The encyclopedia will be a free online compendium that accounts for, summarizes, and puts into order historical to contemporary big picture, theory of everything, unification metatheoretical frameworks – frameworks that represent efforts to fit together and systematize everything humanity has come to understand by their natural relation, within and across domains. For examples of the range of entries that we aim to add to this encyclopedia, see the Unification Metatheory Literature list.

The motivation and purposes behind this endeavor are described succinctly on IAM’s Executive Summary webpage:

“Big Picture challenges, like climate change, worldview fragmentation, global unrest, and existential alienation require solutions that go beyond traditional boundaries of knowledge. By highlighting and organizing these comprehensive unification metatheories and making them freely available online, the project seeks to support complex academic inquiries, foster a broader public engagement with concepts that transcend individual fields, promote transdisciplinary research, and preserve Big Pictures for future generations. The EBP is being designed to incorporate collaborative ethics and methodological pluralism in its research and development, and organize itself in both alphabetical and architectonic ways, with a focus on unifying themes and recurring patterns found in the frameworks.”

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