[Sigia-l] [spam] Retraction re: "IA" value posting I made earlier

[karl fast]

I dunno about all that stuff you said.

But what I do know is this:

  If a client hires me because they want a faceted classification
  scheme for their site does it get made if I don't design it?

  Do I grow it? Do I wish it into being?

  Of course not, I design the bloody thing.

  Therefore IA involves design. QED.

  
  
--karl  



> Design is about intention. It presupposes it. 
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> --> http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=design
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> The question is, then, whether you believe an information architecture
> should have 'intentions,' or an 'intended use,' or a presupposition to
> 'use.'
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> Here, I will again remind you of Bourdieu's 'human habitus' (aka.
> 'systems of habit,' 'agency,' or 'what is'):
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> "...systems of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures
> predisposed to function as structuring structures, that is as principles
> of the generation and structuring of practices and representations which
> can be objectively 'regulated' and 'regular' without in any way being
> the product of obedience rules, objectively adapted to their goals
> without presupposing a conscious aiming at ends or an express mastery of
> the operations necessary to attain them and, being all this,
> collectively orchestrated without being the product of the orchestrating
> action of a conductor."
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> (Source: http://staff.bath.ac.uk/hssjam/povertyofagency.pdf , page 5)
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> I would maintain that information architecture is concerned with finding
> middle-ground between individual agency and structural determinacy. This
> view does not presuppose anything, nor does it present any intentions.
> Rather, it allows social agency, (*not subjectivity*) which functions
> *practically* within a universal capacity. 
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> Conversely, you could make use of sublime/abstract terms like
> 'findability' to cover your ass... without any real recognition of
> world-beyond-self, (ie. no consequences)  :-)
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