[Sigia-l] IA Beyond the Web

[Ruth Kaufman]

Daniel,
While I appreciate this inquiry and the responses that have come in so  
far, it sounds as though you're framing all information design and  
wayfinding systems in the context of "web" information architecture.  
Mapmaking is a centuries-old discipline and has informed information  
architecture, not the other way around. Perhaps what you're interested  
in the roots of information architecture as a a practice. Cartography,  
architecture, urban design, environmental design and signage,  
retailing, graphic design, software design and engineering, library  
science -- even semiotics and phenomenology. Or, if you're looking for  
the way IA practiced on/for the web has bled back into other  
disciplines, then it might be useful to compare the disciplines "before  
and after" the evolution of web-IA.

With that said, I also recommend:
How Maps Work by Alan McEachren:  
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898625890/ 
qid=1065612846/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-5893037- 
0931056?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier:  
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226534219/ 
qid=1065612882/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5893037-0931056?v=glance&s=books

Audio-Vision by Michel Chion (an attempt at an architecture of  
listening):  
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231078994/qid=1065612992/sr=2- 
1/ref=sr_2_1/103-5893037-0931056

Good luck!
Ruth

On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Daniel Montano wrote:

> Hello everyone:
>
> I am a student, currently taking a class on IA. At the moment I'm  
> looking for some good  "off-the-web" "beyond-the-web" IA ?  case  
> studies or examples.
>
> So far I've searched for samples of:  Telephone menus, Restaurant  
> server applications, physical building navigation (I'm thinking of  
> Powells Bookstore in Portland Oregon as one of the best examples I've  
> seen).