contextualization

Scoping always happens in information because it's so vast. Context helps us orient, check for possible adjacencies that should be included, and remind us that our silos aren't real.

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Movements rally points

  • Variability and infrastructure

    Done well, information architecture will live longer than the relevance of the raw data. As data shifts, as our data substrate and understanding grows, as ideologies are finally seen and sloughed: the information architecture needs to change with it.

  • It’s a bet

    Information architecture is not a singular state, even if only one state is the bet.

  • Hierarchy as a lens, opening, or view

    Hierarchical variation of organizing a subset of system for broader use.

  • Quadrants of social and physical environments

    Our entire environment is deeply intertwingled. Each of these quadrants are affected by countless systems, and each of those systems are connected with a level of interdependence that I don’t think we’ve begun to really understand. But lensing those systems with these aspects can, I think, provide a roadmap to dealing with our whole humanely.

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