22. If you use physical architecture as a metaphor to
describe IA, what strengths or limitations have
you found?
23. Strengths
• All humans have experiences in built spaces
• User needs are important in both
• Workflows are important in both
• Wayfinding is important in both
• Context is important in both
24. Limitations
• May turn clients off
• Misalignments between
websites & physical places
• Time
“The objective of IA
is not the production of
environments for
inhabitation,
but for understanding.”
- Jorge Arango
25. The current discussion of IA and the use
of built-world examples is mostly a
reference to western architecture from
the past 100 years.
33. Sustainability
It was fossil fuel-derived electricity that lit and air-conditioned modern
buildings, which often spurned natural light and ventilation. Modern
architecture is thus an energy-profligate, petrochemical architecture, only
possible when fossil fuels are abundant and affordable. Like the
sprawling cities it spawned, it belongs to that waning era historians are
already calling ‘the oil interval’. Although histories of modern architecture
still overlook this critical fact − failing to note what is, literally, blindingly
obvious − any future history must surely begin by noting this relationship, which
is axiomatically unsustainable.
- Peter Buchanan
“The Big Rethink”, Architectural Review
35. “The problem…is also that these structures lack an
authentic connection to nature and the very cultures
in which they exist. This, in turn, leaves us feeling
disconnected, isolated and longing for true
connections to each other and our communities.”
- Monica Gray
“The Problem With Architecture Today”, 2014
36. The Big Rethink
…Most of what we now see as exceptionally stupid design concepts – such as
the ubiquitous, a-contextual, energy guzzling, airconditioned glass box –
were initiated by architects and once hailed as exemplifying Modernist ideals.
…No amount of the desperate fad for jazzing up facades in syncopated ‘barcode’
patterns and other jittery rhythms, and jollying up with strong colours can conceal
the tawdry, mean-spiritedness of the design and the flimsy thinness of much
construction. (Even inoffensive seems beyond us.) These faults are largely the
inevitable consequence of the rhetoric of cheap and ‘efficient’ utilitarianism
promised by Modern architecture.
- Peter Buchanan
“The Big Rethink”, Architectural Review
39. As the field matures, and as more of our
daily interactions involve information
environments, we must become also
increasingly proactive in our role as agents
of cultural and political change.”
Jorge Arango
“Architectures”,
Journal of IA,
Sep 2011
55. We can become better practitioners of
IA by expanding our metaphors to
include examples & strategies from
traditional, natural, and indigenous
architecture.
60. Consider Context
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72. Working Session
Architect the Information
of Georgia House Bill 757
Reserve your seat today
Email to RSVP: info@iainstitute.org
Saturday
6-7:45pm
73. Our goal must be not to disparage, deny the
threats under which we live, but to boldly go
forward toward a new practice, an
understanding that may save us from what
many past and present follies are now
dumping in our laps…If we take it up as a
goal, it will spread like fire to other minds
and other fields… Information architects
should adopt this as a goal. We are uniquely
qualified to get it done, so let's do it.”
Brenda Laurel
Closing Keynote
2015 IA Summit