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THE EVOLUTION OF IA
A JOURNEY IN THE
MICRO-MESO-
MACRO-META
Mapping the Domain Workshop - March 22nd 2017
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CONTENTS
‱ WHAT IS INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE?
‱ ABSTRACTION, CONCEPTUALISATION AND
MENTAL REPRESENTATION;
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‱ IA AND THE DIGITISATION OF OUR CITIES.
MICRO
MESO
MACRO
META
LET’S CONSIDER WHAT IA IS?
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TO UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION WE CAN TURN
TO:
‱ Abstraction;
‱ Conceptualisation;
‱ Mental Representation.
ABSTRACTION IS ESSENTIAL TO
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
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CONCEPTUALISATION
IS ESSENTIAL TO
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A map is not the territory
Alfred Korzybski
“ “
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MATCHING THE INTERNAL WORLD
WITH THE EXTERNAL WORLD
MENTAL REPRESENTATION:
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A formal system for making explicit
certain entities of information, together
with a specification of how the system
does this
David Marr
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
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BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER
THE FOUR WAVES OF
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
MAPPING THE DOMAIN:
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CLASSICAL
USER
GENERATED
PERVASIVE
INVERSION
The forth wave of IA no longer deals in
purely physical or digital terms but
operates at the level of data
Jason Hobbs
“ “
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THE DIGITISATION OF OUR CITIES:
SMART CITIES
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INVISIBLE TECHNOLOGY
Global reach & power; SW platforms for business
model disruption, stability, non-privacy preserving
& inadequately secure
Enabled by:
Core Cloud
Compute
Tech
IP
Networks
Broadband
Access
Local real estate, fibre, trust, optimised HW/SW
network platforms, programmability, privacy
preserving, & secure
Enabled by:
Edge Cloud
Compute
Tech
Virtual
Networks
Broadband
& Mobile
Access
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A TRANSFORMED ENVIRONMENT
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@simon_norris
CONCLUSIONS
‱ DATA WILL ALLOW US TO CREATE NEW
STRUCTURES: NEW SCALES.
‱ THE COGNITIVE ABILITIES OF ABSTRACTION,
CONCEPTUALISATION AND MENTAL
REPRESENTATION ARE FUNDAMENTAL.
‱ OUR SMART (DIGITAL) CITIES WILL NEED IA’S.
THANK YOU
@simon_norris

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The Evolution of Information Architecture

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Our world is changing. It is digitising. Data is quickly becoming the new currency. The meaningful use of data raises challenges regarding the scale at which to design. In this new world of uber-interconnectedness the micro-macro perspective is being supplanted by micro-meso-macro-meta thinking. Understanding the consequences of such wide sweeping digital change represents a challenge at both the practice and academic levels of IA. Yet, the need for IA has never been greater especially when we consider our cities are transforming into digital platforms: smart cities. This is a light speed journey into micro-meso-macro-meta thinking.
  2. The presentation will cover: 1. What is information architecture? 2. The importance of abstraction, conceptualisation and mental representation skills. 3. IA and the digitisation of our cities.
  3. Traditionally the scales of micro and macro are well represented in many domains. However, they have limitations which are not easily resolvable
this is becoming especially problematic in our digimodern epoch. Let’s take the uber service as an example. At a micro level we see the driver’s UI showing the route to the rider’s pick-up destination.
  4. At the meso level the rider’s UI shows the drivers available around them, e.g. there are many drivers taking many routes.
  5. Scale up to the macro level and we can see riders waiting, rides in progress and empty drivers. Uber app users don’t see this perspective but I bet Uber does.
  6. Scale-up again to the meta level and we see Uber’s activity at a country level. The cities they are in (and the cities they aren’t). In micro-meso-macro-meta thinking the meta factor can occur at all the levels. It is not independent yet it can be. The meta is what provides definition to understanding this interconnectedness and therefore scale.
  7. Let’s consider what IA is? This is important because underlying the IA craft are a number of skills. Skills that help us better structure information so we can better support decision making, and in turn help us craft the digital experiencing process to be more meaningful. The process our user experiences come from.
  8. These are designerly skills: ‱ Abstraction ‱ Conceptualisation ‱ Mental Representation
  9. Information is not data. Information is abstracted from data and represents a first order level of abstraction. Information Architecture on the other hand represents a second order level of abstraction. That is, the architecture of the information is abstracted from information. Hence, information architecture.
  10. Understanding such relationships requires conceptualisation. In its most simplified form conceptualisation represents an abstract often simplified representation of something. For example, Darth Vader holding the Apple logo in his hand. Essentially, as IA’s we are concerned with understanding and designing structures. We can think of such structures as scalable systems. Do the conceptual models we generate match the realities we are designing for? Are we designing at the right scale? With physical buildings scale is self-evident. Not necessarily so with digital structures and therefore IA.
  11. “A map is not the territory.” Alfred Korzybski From a digital perspective what is the territory we are designing? Easy with physical structures. Again not so with non-physical structures. Yet, to be able to understand the world we need to be able to model it, this requires our conceptual ability. The challenge is always how well do our conceptualisations match mental representations?
  12. Mental representation allows us to match the internal world of representations and concepts with the external world. Mental representation allow us to blend our internal and external worlds together. They are the interface of our reality.
  13. “A formal system for making explicit certain entities of information, together with a specification of how the system does this.” David Marr
  14. My point is that this data tsunami we are undergoing requires different thinking. The micro-macro perspective can be enhanced and the skills of abstraction, conceptualisation and mental representation are highly relevant. Let me demonstrate with an example.
  15. See the dot?
  16. It’s not a house. It’s a collection of lines connecting dots that a representation of a house, a concept. In this simple example we see how abstraction, conceptualisation and mental representation comes together.
  17. What does this mean in terms of mapping our domain? I think of IA as composed of four waves of activity.
  18. Classically: taxonomy, search, information hierarchy.
  19. User generated: folksonomy; consumer-driven structures (not producer-driven structures).
  20. Pervasive: multi-device and multi-channel; supporting both, synchronous, and asynchronous interactions.
  21. Inversion: data-driven emergent systems. The picture is Burning Man 2015 where attendees used FireChat to create a peer-to-peer wireless network through their smartphones. An interconnected digital canopy.
  22. I’m not alone in this way of thinking. Inversion is important because the focus on data will help us apply micro-meso-macro-meta thinking. It will allow us to understand and design at different orders of magnitude, yet undefined. Inversion allows us to apply IA at scale - supra-scale.
  23. Why do I believe inversion is so important? Because we are facing one of the greatest and most exciting challenges of the 21st century. The digitisation of our cities! Cities are evolving into smart cities. And the need for IA has never been greater. Inversion can be used to process data and help us make sense of patterns of information at supra-scale, city scale. Understanding these patterns of information will require abstraction, conceptualisation and representation skills.
  24. What is happening right now? Many cities are going through a transformation or are about to. They are laying the technology that will move them from core cloud computing systems to edge cloud computing platforms (this is referred to as the ‘third wave’ in digital city terminology) where millions of apps, billions of users and trillions of things are being connected. This represents an unprecedented paradigm shift and will effect how we will live! Just as the car changed everything. So, will data. It will be revolutionary and usher in personal and global digitisation. Technology will become invisible and experience will dominate. What is at the heart of this transformation?
  25. 5G. A massive upgrade in bandwidth. This will allow person-to-person and machine-to-machine interaction and interactions on a mind boggling scale. Much of what is being discussed about the future of social computing, machine intelligence and automation will become possible. Smart cities. Smart lifestyles. Smart experiences.
  26. Whilst IA has mainly been applied to digital structures and more recently the interaction between digital structures or platforms. The emergence of cities as platforms will be one of the most influential changes we will live through, it means we can apply IA at city-scale. Micro-meso-macro-meta thinking can help us achieve greater understanding and harmony in a world dominated by data and technology. The need for IA has never been greater.
  27. Thank You :)