correlation wheel

This diagramming technique allows me to correlate different cyclical landscape processes through time.  Each activity is indexed in the key and then played out across a year for a specific place.  This allows me to zero on the specific activities and their relative levels of intensity at a given moment in time.  This technique could be used for any activity and at any specified temporal scale.  It enables the designer to attempt a landscape choreography in a specific way, and when tied to a spatial representation it makes clear the relations between objects and processes.

Limitations of this technique are that it is general- it assumes all activity occur along a similar rhythm and scale.  For instance, this diagram shows that sedimentation and soccer games are occurring in a similar way, whereas sediment deposition is constant but soccer games are singular events occurring along a schedule.