sentient architectures of information
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Martyn Dade-Robertson, Architect presentation from World IA Day 2013 Bristol. In an age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing the notion of information architecture has shifted to involve both multi-channel and multi-device experiences. Perhaps, even more profoundly digital information which has been ‘let loose’ from the shackles of a computer screen becomes, through locative media, embedded within the places and practices of everyday life. This new era of information architecture offers new and exciting design opportunities; however, it also offers practical and ethical challenges. This talk will sketch out this future for information architecture through the concept of sentient spaces examines how Information Architects may shape experiences, not only of information but, of society and space.TRANSCRIPT
World IA DAY 2013 | Sentient Architectures of Information
Dr. Martyn Dade-Robertson ArchaID School of Architecture Planning and Landscape Newcastle University 09/02/2012
Where is the Architecture in Information Architecture?
A consensual hallucina-on experienced daily by billions of legi-mate operators, in every na-on, by children being taught mathema-cal concepts ...a graphical representa-on of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constella-ons of data. Like city lights receding.' (Gibson 1984: 67)
A consensual hallucina-on experienced daily by billions of legi-mate operators, in every na-on, by children being taught mathema-cal concepts ...a graphical representa-on of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constella5ons of data. Like city lights receding.' (Gibson 1984: 67)
What was the first architectural gesture?
c. 2500BC
Primi5ve Classifica5on
Durkheim & Mauss (1963)
Primi5ve Classifica5on
Durkheim & Mauss (1963)
Primi5ve Classifica5on
Durkheim & Mauss (1963)
Primi5ve Classifica5on
Durkheim & Mauss (1963)
Linguis5c System
Archite
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ic System
Linguis5c System
Archite
cton
ic System
Linguis5c System
Archite
cton
ic System …incorporates the en.re set of place-‐
making orderings whereby individuals construct and communicate a conceptual world through the use of palpable dis.nc.ons in forma.on …[which are]… addressed to the visual channel, to be decoded spa.o-‐ kine.cally over .me. (Preziosi 1979: 4)
Language Architecture and Meaning
Preziosi (1979)
Linguis5c System
Archite
cton
ic System …incorporates the en#re set of place-‐
making orderings whereby individuals construct and communicate a conceptual world through the use of palpable dis#nc#ons in forma#on …[which are]… addressed to the visual channel, to be decoded spa#o-‐ kine#cally over .me. (Preziosi 1979: 4)
Language Architecture and Meaning
Preziosi (1979)
Archite
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ic System
Linguis5c System
Archite
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ic System
Design of the built environment.
Linguis5c System
Archite
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Design of the built environment.
Aristotle’s applica-on of the word ‘topos’ to general paNerns of argument is the source of the name of his trea-se, ‘The Topics’. And this use of the word, along with the related use in rhetoric, is the source of the English expression ‘topic’ and ‘commonplace’. If the above sugges-ons are correct, these words will have come via Aristotle ul-mately from the system of place memory. (Sorabji 2004: 32)
Where is the Architecture in Information Architecture?
Where is the Information Architecture in Architecture?
Listening Post Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
Immaterials: Light Painting WiFi Timo Arnall, Jorn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen
Macroscope Tom Schofield Martyn Dade-Robertson
Pivot Paths Marian Dork
Information is Beautiful David McCandless
THE END [email protected] www.archaid.org www.dataportraits.co.uk @martynDR