Information Architecture Summit 2016 lightening talk for Reframe IA roundtable

1. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Because we care about understanding…

2. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
A masterwork should have some internal
capacity to allow the information architect to
have a critical reading of/conversation with the
system itself

3. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Lacerada & Lima-Marques, “Information architecture as a discipline – a methodological approach”, Reframing Information Architecture
The system lives here

4. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Lacerada & Lima-Marques, “Information architecture as a discipline – a methodological approach”, Reframing Information Architecture
But it should contain
epistemic structures
that aren’t fully
constrained by the
procedural intent

5. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Borrowing from biology systems theory,
epistemic structures* are experimental
structures that are formed from early concepts
and serve as objects of inquiry
*Rheinberger,” Experimental Systems and Epistemic Things,” Toward a History of Epistemic Things

6. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Lacerada & Lima-Marques, “Information architecture as a discipline – a methodological approach,” Reframing Information Architecture
And these epistemic
structures in some way
leave a trace

7. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Lacerada & Lima-Marques, “Information architecture as a discipline – a methodological approach,” Reframing Information Architecture
The traces could be
critically ‘read’ by the
information architect
to reveal new
understanding about
the system’s
underlying ontology

8. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Lacerada & Lima-Marques, “Information architecture as a discipline – a methodological approach,” Reframing Information Architecture
The information architect
can query the traces of
the system, uncover new
understanding, adjust the
structure of the system at
the
procedural level

9. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
Because these things we architect are
systems, we can’t pick them up and look at
them in entirety to take deep, critical
readings, and see new things that shape
our concepts about the
domain ontology
We need them to be generative systems

10. Reframe IA 2016 | Marsha Haverty
We need masterworks of information architecture
to be machines for making the future