Save the date and get your tickets for World Information Architecture Day 2020 in Ann Arbor, Michigan!
Returning for the ninth year, World Information Architecture (IA) Day Ann Arbor is the annual event created by the Information Architecture Institute and produced by local volunteers.
The Ann Arbor event will be held Saturday, February 22, 2020 and is organized by School of Information students at the University of Michigan.
This year’s theme: The IA Element.
The Ann Arbor event is one of 60 World IA Day 2019 events being held around the world in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Did I mention the event is free?
What is World IA Day?
Information architecture is “the practice of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable.”
Which involves organizing, structuring, and labeling information in a useful manner for everyone.
On World IA Day, local organizers invite everyone to attend events focused on learning, sharing, and discussing information architecture.
The event is inclusive. It’s for everyone in the community, not only people who design, develop, architect, or manage information.
At World IA Day Ann Arbor, you’ll learn how information architecture can make a difference in our communities and our lives and how IA:
- Ties and binds different ideas involved, the end users, the stakeholders, the designers and the developers
- Is often the bridge element between them all and tying together through understanding
- Filters the noise for a better collaboration for a growing community
Details and Schedule
World IA Day Ann Arbor 2020 is free and open to the public; pre-registration is required.
The event will be held at the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan (map and directions to the Union) from 9:30am to 1:45pm Eastern Time.
Registration, breakfast, and networking start at 8:30am. Presentations begin promptly at 9:30am.
Schedule
- 8:30am to 9:30am: Registration and coffee/breakfast
- 9:30am to 9:40am: Welcome
- 9:40am to 9:45am: Sponsor, The Understanding Group
- 9:45am to 10:45am: Gentle Change, by Peter Morville
- 10:50am to 11:00am: Break
- 11:00am to 11:30am: Artificial Intelligence & Consent, by Meg Green
- 11:30am to noon: Mindful Models and the Conscious Organization, by Dan Cooley
- Noon to 1:30pm: Lunch on your own
- 1:35pm to 2:05pm: Every Word Counts: Building a Team Architecture for Collaboration, by Julie Cruz
- 2:05pm to 2:55pm: Information Architecture and the Coming Digital Renaissance, by Daniel O’Neil
- 2:55pm to 3:15pm: Break
- 3:15pm to 3:45pm: The Chemistry of Information Architecture and Experience Design, by Scott Showalter
- 3:45pm to 4:45pm: The Structuralist Language for Information Architecture, by Rachel Aliana Jaffe
- 4:45pm to 5:00pm Closing Remarks and Raffle
History of World IA Day
Curious how World IA Day came about?
The first World IA Day was held in 14 cities in February 2012, marking the anniversary of the release of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, written by Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld, known by many in the information architecture field as the polar bear book.
Wrapping Up
Join others in the community on February 22, 2020 for World IA Day 2020 in Ann Arbor. Learn how information architecture is elemental to the work we all do in design, technology, architecture, and business.
Hope to see you on February 22th!
