- an interdisciplinary journal devoted to research in the cultural, technological, aesthetic and scientific significance of formalisation.

According to the knowledge and learning philosophy of formalisation, knowledge exists not only as mental and social processes in a community of humans, but also as knowledge products: as symbolic representations that may be read and interpreted by human beings. Thoughts and ideas may be represented in multiple ways and representations may be translated from one notational form into another, e.g. from visual to other kinds of representations.

Formalisation expresses knowledge, thoughts and ideas in a language with the intent to communicate, reason, distinguish and learn. In order for representations to be named 'formalisation' it must be possible to explain them in terms of a meta-language, expressing formulas and schemes that are already present in the human mind, language and culture. Through formalisation processes these formulas are activated in order to understand and distinguish sense from non-sense, true from false, beauty from mediocrity. In information theoretical terms, formalisation is thus about discerning information from an information background. Everything that prevents clarity in communication is thrown away.

This is the epistemology of formalisation.