Vienna · later international networks / From the 1920s · a method, not one dated chart
The Vienna Method / Isotype
Make the economy readable
Isotype assembled facts through repeated pictograms so that social and economic relations could be read visually. Reading’s archive preserves the work of Otto and Marie Neurath and their collaborators. For this site, its left relevance is a question of access: can knowledge about the economy belong to the people who live within it? A clear diagram can enable participation; its apparent certainty also makes the choice of categories worth questioning.
- Date
- From the 1920s · a method, not one dated chart
- Maker / designer
- Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath and collaborators
- Material
- Pictograms, charts and printed publications
- Context
- Public education developed in interwar Vienna; later adapted in multiple political contexts.
Evidence: Date established · Place established
Historical record
- The Vienna Method developed in 1920s Vienna.
- Marie Neurath deposited the Isotype archive at Reading in 1971.