architecting reality ias 2015
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Architecting Reality
@KatalogofchaosKat King
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Takeaways• We live in a shared ‘reality’ sustained
by our continued use of it• Nothing is neutral• We have an ethical duty as
information architects to be aware of the structures we are upholding and how they impact our future
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Location
Alphabet
Time
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Hierarchy
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• Challenge structures of inequality
• Help more people be healthy, happy, have agency over their own lives, and control of their own meanings
• Helps people make choices that lead to the above
What is Good?
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“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”
-Niels Bohr
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.-Carl Sagan
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Hierarchy
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Chaos
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Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Hierarchy
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REALITY
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Thing
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Time
Location
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Photo by Flickr user KentWang
Mondrian
Netherlands
Oil
Painting
Alphabet
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Hierarchy(Formerly Continuum)
(Briefly Magnitude)
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Cop-out
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“Most of our lives are spent joining
others in the re-creation of
conventional understandings; there
is little encouragement to do more, and
numerous reasons to remain within familiar
realities. –Creel Froman (Language and Power Book I,
Section 4.)Image Flickr user funfilledgeorgie
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“…there are advantages to some in imposing a language (truth, knowledge) and restricting the creation and circulation of other languages” –Creel Froman (Language and Power, Book I, Section 16)
“Consequences of realities affect different people differently, and those advantaged solidify their advantages into structures.” –Creel Froman (Language and Power, Book I, Section 10)
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Photo of illustration inHow to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert
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We have an ethical duty to stop this trash.
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