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Architecture & IA: Expanding the Metaphor - IA Summit 2016
- 1. ARCHITECTURE & IA Expanding the Metaphor Jessica DuVerneay @jduverneay
- 2. WHAT IS IA?
- 3. Michigan - Circa 1992
- 9. METAPHORS
- 12. .
- 13. . is to make places, not just spaces. The reason to work with an architect
- 14. . Places where strategy shapes the structure to ensure good fit between what you intend…
- 15. . experience it …and how people
- 16. Do you use physical architecture as a metaphor to explain or discuss information architecture?
- 20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Film, 2004
- 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.
- 26. .
- 30. So, what’s wrong with that? Those buildings are cool.
- 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
- 37. increased isolation increased disparity increased pollution increased illness economic collapse ecological collapse http://www.handsoffmydinosaur.com
- 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
- 42. “Lord of the Rings”, Film, 2001
- 43. Little Book of Sloth - Lucy Cooke
- 48. local interdependence customization earth integration quality affordability community hand made bespoke idea centric people
- 49. local interdependence customization earth integration quality affordability community hand made bespoke idea centric people
- 50. local interdependence customization earth integration quality affordability community hand made bespoke idea centric people global independence uniformity urbanism efficiency economy industry machined mass production material centric profit
- 53. local interdependence customization earth integration quality affordability community hand made bespoke idea centric people global independence uniformity urbanism efficiency economy industry machined mass production material centric profit
- 54. local interdependence customization earth integration quality affordability community hand made bespoke idea centric people global independence uniformity urbanism efficiency economy industry machined mass production material centric profit
- 55. We can become better practitioners of IA by expanding our metaphors to include examples & strategies from traditional, natural, and indigenous architecture.
- 56. 4 STRATEGIES FROM NATURAL & INDIGENOUS ARCHITECTURE
- 57. 1. Prioritize Sustainability 2. Consider Context 3. Demand Inclusion 4. Look Beyond the Project
- 60. Consider Context Vincent van Zeijst https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/cf/2e/cc/cf2eccf463ba9c75a0de258f333e22b8.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faroe_Islands,_Streymoy,_Kirkjubøur_(1).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horyu-ji11s3200.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Pagaruyung_palace.jpg
- 61. Vincent van Zeijst Consider Context Andrew Hinton Understanding Context
- 63. Look beyond the Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space Eames, “Powers of 10”
- 66. Michigan - Circa 2015
- 67. START NOW
- 68. Dan Klyn Workshop Origins of Pattern Language: Learning from C. Alexander
- 69. Tim Frick Book Due July 2016
- 71. Sunday 1:15pm #NOBODYUBERSINTHEHOOD: ARCHITECTING FOR INCLUSION IN THE DIGITAL SERVICE ECONOMY
- 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