@article{Gracioso_Almeida_Kawasaki_2022, title={From knowledge trees to rhizomes and rukus: plant metaphors in the relational organization of knowledge: plant metaphors in the relational organization of knowledge}, volume={2}, url={https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/fronteiras-rc/article/view/41850}, abstractNote={<p>The tree has been used as a key metaphor, since the Middle Ages, to depict knowledge representation systems. However, the contemporary socio-technical context demands considerations that admit other representations of the ways in which<br />knowledge is produced, organized, and represented. In this sense, the purpose of this text<br />is to reflect on arboreal images used historically as representational symbols of knowledge<br />structures and, furthermore, to conjecture, within the scope of the transversal discussions<br />that involve the plane of sociobiodiversity involved in the production of knowledge, about<br />some of these representations used in different contexts and times. In the end, we arrive at<br />the representation of the Rhizome proposed by G. Deleuze and F. Guatari, the Baniana tree<br />by S. Ranganathan, and the Ruku tree, represented in the painting "The descent of the<br />Jenipapo shaman from the kingdom of medicines", (2021), produced by the Makuxi<br />indigenous artivist Jaider Esbell. The final considerations suggest that by broadening our<br />understanding of the tree as a representation of relationships and not of dichotomies or<br />hierarchies, we will be able to perceive, with more equity, the social, plural and<br />cosmological arrangements of knowledge.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Frontiers of Knowlegde Representation}, author={Gracioso, Luciana de Souza and Almeida, Marco Antônio de and Kawasaki, Clarice Sumi}, year={2022}, month={Nov.}, pages={75–95} }