Notes taken during the Keynote presentations and Panel Discussion of Dan Klyn, Lou Rosenfeld, Christine Wodtke, and Abby (the IA) Covert. High-level presentations designed to inspire and connect archtiectural ideas to shaping information into "information" and virtual spaces.
Critical Design :: Restoring a sense of wonder to Interaction DesignMichael Smyth
Presentation at Interaction12, Dublin, Ireland
Will the promise of Critical Design deliver after the disappointment of ethnography? Interaction Designers expected ethnography to reveal rich insights that would inform the creation of better products, services and experiences. However the pressure of solution-focused design practice turned out to be a poor fit with ethnography’s concern with meaning and cultures. In response, Critical Design is emerging as a new strategy for exploring the space that lies tantalisingly beyond the current and the now.
At the core of ethnography is observation and therein lies the appeal to Interaction Designers. The disappointment has been in the failure to translate from the rich descriptive picture of ethnography into the generation of requirements. This expectation reveals a misunderstanding as to the purpose of ethnography. Ethnography uncovers meaning, it does not identify problems or solutions. Interaction Designers have responded by taking a more ‘designerly’ approach to requirements generation by considering both the problem and the solution in a more fluid and intertwined manner. In this vein, Critical Design presents design as a catalyst or provocation for thought. Through ‘design fictions’ the approach attempts to challenge assumptions and preconceptions about the role that products and services play in everyday life. A series recent of workshops will be discussed that have blended aspects of ethnography and Critical Design to identify the future paradigms of interaction in the urban environment.
Critical Design :: Restoring a sense of wonder to Interaction DesignMichael Smyth
Presentation at Interaction12, Dublin, Ireland
Will the promise of Critical Design deliver after the disappointment of ethnography? Interaction Designers expected ethnography to reveal rich insights that would inform the creation of better products, services and experiences. However the pressure of solution-focused design practice turned out to be a poor fit with ethnography’s concern with meaning and cultures. In response, Critical Design is emerging as a new strategy for exploring the space that lies tantalisingly beyond the current and the now.
At the core of ethnography is observation and therein lies the appeal to Interaction Designers. The disappointment has been in the failure to translate from the rich descriptive picture of ethnography into the generation of requirements. This expectation reveals a misunderstanding as to the purpose of ethnography. Ethnography uncovers meaning, it does not identify problems or solutions. Interaction Designers have responded by taking a more ‘designerly’ approach to requirements generation by considering both the problem and the solution in a more fluid and intertwined manner. In this vein, Critical Design presents design as a catalyst or provocation for thought. Through ‘design fictions’ the approach attempts to challenge assumptions and preconceptions about the role that products and services play in everyday life. A series recent of workshops will be discussed that have blended aspects of ethnography and Critical Design to identify the future paradigms of interaction in the urban environment.
Working Out How The Internet Works - Metamechanics @ #IAMW16 - annotatedJohn V Willshire
My talk from day one of IAMW16 in Barcelona, exploring what the mechanics behind the internet are, why we look for them, and why we might be looking for the wrong thing.
Will we still know ourselves? Identity and Community in a Transforming Knowle...Cameron Neylon
Keynote given at the NFAIS 2018 meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, USA on 28 February 2018
The world of information is transforming at a bewildering pace. The assumptions of yesterday, the stable institutions and cherished practices increasingly seem to be vanishing before our eyes. The first assumption of any new strategy seems to be “what would this look like if we built it from scratch, today”. And yet continuity matters, we don’t build new tools, institutions and practices from scratch, they evolve in a messy and contingent way from what we have available to us in the moment.
In this talk, Neylon unpicks the underlying drivers of change, and how they are coupled to a long history of how we manage information. Neylon will discuss how the different perspectives of important groups—scholars, publishers, funders, platform providers and the myriad of information professionals—lead to a partial focus that can make us simultaneously fearful of the change we see and blind to the shifts that actually matter.
If the arc of history bends towards justice then it follows that the arc of our knowledge and information environment necessarily bends towards greater scale and greater diversity. At the same time it is the values that underpin scholarship and the various ways in which we identify with the project of building knowledge, that drive us forward. If we are to take advantage of change, we need to understand what it is that must stay the same.
From Dreams to Reality: The Transition from Planning to New FacilitiesWest Muse
In an improving economy, many institutions are ready to consider a move from strategic planning to the design and construction of new or renovated facilities. This session will present the issues to consider in making this transition including funding, board and community relations, sustainable design and the museum environment, and the design and construction process. The recently completed Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) and the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) projects in Seattle, Washington serve as case studies.
These slides were given by presenter Sam Miller
Moderator: Maryann Jordan, Vice-Director, Seattle Art Museum
Presenters: Sam Miller, Partner, LMN Architects
Mike Stanley, Principal, The Seneca Group
Working Out How The Internet Works - Metamechanics @ #IAMW16 - annotatedJohn V Willshire
My talk from day one of IAMW16 in Barcelona, exploring what the mechanics behind the internet are, why we look for them, and why we might be looking for the wrong thing.
Will we still know ourselves? Identity and Community in a Transforming Knowle...Cameron Neylon
Keynote given at the NFAIS 2018 meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, USA on 28 February 2018
The world of information is transforming at a bewildering pace. The assumptions of yesterday, the stable institutions and cherished practices increasingly seem to be vanishing before our eyes. The first assumption of any new strategy seems to be “what would this look like if we built it from scratch, today”. And yet continuity matters, we don’t build new tools, institutions and practices from scratch, they evolve in a messy and contingent way from what we have available to us in the moment.
In this talk, Neylon unpicks the underlying drivers of change, and how they are coupled to a long history of how we manage information. Neylon will discuss how the different perspectives of important groups—scholars, publishers, funders, platform providers and the myriad of information professionals—lead to a partial focus that can make us simultaneously fearful of the change we see and blind to the shifts that actually matter.
If the arc of history bends towards justice then it follows that the arc of our knowledge and information environment necessarily bends towards greater scale and greater diversity. At the same time it is the values that underpin scholarship and the various ways in which we identify with the project of building knowledge, that drive us forward. If we are to take advantage of change, we need to understand what it is that must stay the same.
From Dreams to Reality: The Transition from Planning to New FacilitiesWest Muse
In an improving economy, many institutions are ready to consider a move from strategic planning to the design and construction of new or renovated facilities. This session will present the issues to consider in making this transition including funding, board and community relations, sustainable design and the museum environment, and the design and construction process. The recently completed Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) and the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) projects in Seattle, Washington serve as case studies.
These slides were given by presenter Sam Miller
Moderator: Maryann Jordan, Vice-Director, Seattle Art Museum
Presenters: Sam Miller, Partner, LMN Architects
Mike Stanley, Principal, The Seneca Group
Building networked community involvementDavid Barrie
Talk given to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, November 3 2010, outlining social media, online community involvement and physical place-making of real estate/renewal development sites.
This is a student project presentation on the quote "Form and function are one" by Frank Lloyd Wright, for an architectural project on Product and furniture design (Industrial design) elective. The project showcases the meaning of the quote, it's relation to 'Organic Architecture' through FLW's vision for the concept. It consists of examples of various buildings for the viewer to understand and interpret the concept, followed by basic details on projects for various furniture and product designs, future styles, relating to the quote.
The PowerPoint file contains basic description about each project covered by mostly pictorial slides.
CRIG 2017 Improving digital library services with user researchVernon Fowler
Modern libraries provide a burgeoning array of digital services, all experienced through a myriad of touch-points. To name a few: catalogue; discovery layers; website; LibGuides; Learning Management Systems; chat; Skype; social media; YouTube; blogs; portals; email...
It's a complex picture! A dichotomy of implementing innovative new services while maintaining legacy ones rarely results in seamless, unified library experiences. Using unconnected touch-points often leads to broken user experiences. A good user experience requires research.
To increase satisfaction and delight library users, adopt an approach that gathers evidence, generates insights, and informs decision-making for iterative, incremental changes. This presentation explores some tried and tested user research methods to gather both qualitative and quantitative data from students and staff throughout all stages of project life-cycles. It aims to inspire you with examples of user research initiatives undertaken at Deakin University Library, including co-design workshops for a better homepage, and preliminary results from a longitudinal happiness tracking survey for continuous improvement.
Attendees will take away a digital set of research method cards templates, and tips for conducting quality user research to improve project outcomes at their libraries.
Presentation held at the Intranet Global Forum in New York on 25.10.2013 - includes a benchmark of Intranets by continents based on data of the Worldwide Intranet Challenge
Joint 2-3 hour workshop series, Fall 2014 for our UNCG Libraries LSTA grant on makerspace education along with the UNCG Library and Information Studies Department outreach to students and alums. 10/25/14 Wilmington, 11/5/14 Raleigh, 11/6/14 Charlotte, 11/8/14 Asheville
Social Media and Architecture Journal ArchivesNoreen Whysel
Social Media and Architecture Journal Archives
NY Archivist Round Table Archives Week Symposium 2015
October 21, 2015 at the Center for Jewish History
http://www.nycarchivists.org/event-1954196/
Using a Wiki for Collaboration and CoordinationConnie Crosby
Based on a webinar presented to the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) these slides look at use of a wiki for event planning, and getting started using wikis for larger projects. A list of helpful resources are also included
Lean UX isn’t about cutting corners, building on the cheap, low quality results, doing things quickly or not providing deliverables. It’s an incremental team approach to product discovery and delivery that's already used successfully at companies of all sizes — from startups to IBM.
Lean UX sits at the intersection of Lean Startup & User Experience. We explode some of the myths and demonstrate how to apply Lean UX principles to the way your products are designed and built.
Slides from a talk given by Stacy Allison-Cassin and William Denton, of York University, at the Ontario Library Association 2009 Super Conference, 29 January 2009.
Available under a Creative Commons license.
http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2501
Similar to World Information Architecture-Day-NYC-2013-Notes-on-Keynotes (20)
World Information Architecture-Day-NYC-2013-Notes-on-Keynotes
1. Notes from World Information
Architecture Day 2013 - NYC
Absolutely unofficial notes and
resource lists from the WIAD-NYC
Keynote presentations on 2013-02-09
rdherring5@yahoo.com
2. I. Dan Klyn - Where did "The
Architecture Part" of IA Come From
• An introduction to the fertile, unconventional
mind of Richard Saul Wurman (RSW)
• Klyn presented three tenets of RSW design
– Language generates structure
– Decide the what before the how
– Make things good
• The video Interviews in the resource section
give a flavor of this productive gadfly and
student of architect Louis I. Kahn 2
3. Klyn Resources
• http://www.slideshare.net/danfnord (Dan Klyn)
• Richard Saul Wurman (RSW)
– Brief Profile of Richard Saul Wurman (RSW)
http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/iss/innovators
/richard-saul-wurman
– Video interviews with RSW
http://architecturalinterviews.blogspot.com/2009/12/vide
o-interview-commissioner-of.html
– 33: Understanding Change & the Change in Understanding
[Paperback]; Publication Date: October 1, 2009 | ISBN-10:
098189898X | ISBN-13 ISBN:0596527349 | Edition: 1st
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/098189898X/ 3
4. II. Lou Rosenfeld - IA for the Web:
Original Intent
• First edition of the “Polar Bear book” was
“how do you begin” doing IA
• Second (and Third) edition was “how do you
refine” … an IA design
• He exhorted practitioners to build more
companies, since business models are creative
products too
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5. Rosenfeld Resources
• http://www.slideshare.net/lrosenfeld (Louis Rosenfeld)
• Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld
– Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 1st
Edition | Publication Date: February 8, 1998 | ISBN-10:
1565922824 | ISBN-13: 978-1565922822 | Edition: 1st
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/1565922824/
– Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd
Edition | Publication Date: December 4, 2006 | ISBN-10:
0596527349 | ISBN-13: 978-0596527341 | Edition: 3rd
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/0596527349/
– PDF copies of this content appear to exist on the web
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6. III. Christina Wodtke - Putting the
Architecture Back into Information
Architecture
• We are conducting architecture in information
spaces
• Presentation was an ambitious exploration of
– Major attributes of architecture (Durable/
Convenient/ Beautiful [Delight])
– Architectural concepts that distinguish artifacts
from “architecture” (Servant vs. Served spaces
{Louis I. Kahn} / Views/ Speed {of the experience}/
Movement
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7. Wodtke Resources
• http://www.slideshare.net/cwodtke/architecture-of-
information (Christina Wodtke)
• Louis I. Kahn
– What Will Be Has Always Been, the Words of Louis I. Kahn
[Paperback];(Wurman is editor) | Publisher: Accesspress
Limited (1990) ASIN: B0012SD33U
|http://www.amazon.com/What-Will-Always-Words-
Louis/dp/B0012SD33U
• Robert Venturi
– Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture [Paperback],
2nd Edition | Release date: July 2, 2002 | ISBN-10:
0870702823 | ISBN-13: 978-0870702822 |Edition: 2nd
|http://openisbn.com/isbn/0870702823/ 7
8. Wodtke Resources-cont.
• Robert Venturi - cont.
– Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten
Symbolism of Architectural Form [Paperback], Revised
Publication Date: June 15, 1977 | ISBN-10: 026272006X |
ISBN-13: 978-0262720069 | Edition: Revised
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/9780262720069/
• Ada Louise Huxtable
– On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of
Change [Bargain Price] [Hardcover] | Release date:
October 28, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0802717071 | Edition: 1st
|http://openisbn.com/isbn/0802717071/
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9. IV. Panel Discussion (including
Abby Covert-Moderator)
• Tom Wolfe
– From Bauhaus to Our House [Paperback]
Release date: November 24, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0312429142 |
ISBN-13: 978-0312429140 | Edition: Reprint
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/0312429142/
• Stewart Brand
− How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
[Paperback]|Release date: October 1, 1995 | ISBN-10:
0140139966 | ISBN-13: 978-0140139969 | Edition: 1st
|http://openisbn.com/isbn/0140139966/
– How Buildings Learn - Six Part BBC Series – on YouTube
|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEqfg2sIH0 9
10. Panel Discussion Resources-cont.
• Matthew Frederick
– 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School [Hardcover]
Publication Date: August 31, 2007 | Series: 101 Things I
Learned|ISBN-10: 0262062666 | ISBN-13: 9780262062664
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/9780262062664/
• W. Lidwell, K. Holden, and J. Butler
– Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125
Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase
Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through
Design [Paperback], 2nd ed. | Publication Date: January 1,
2010 | ISBN-10: 1592535879 | ISBN-13: 978-1592535873 |
| http://openisbn.com/isbn/1592535879/ 10
12. - Info Architecture Organizations -
• The Information Architecture Institute (http://iainstitute.org/)
• Interaction Design Association (http://www.ixda.org/)
– Local: http://www.ixda.org/local/directory
• The User Experience Professionals Association [UXPA -
formerly UPA] (http://upassoc.org/ )
– Chapters: http://upassoc.org/chapters/index.html#usa
• General Assembly - New York City
(https://generalassemb.ly/education?where=new-york-city)
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