IDEA Conference 2007
Information Architecture Institutes’s Second Annual IDEA Conference, New York City, October 4-5, pre-conference workshop on October 3. http://ideaconference.org/
IDEA stands for Information: Design, Experience, Access. The pre-conference event offers hands-on training by David Bishop from MAYA Design in methods for gathering, organizing, and diagramming domain knowledge for interaction and services design.
IDEA is unique in the way it brings together designers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to address designing complex information spaces. Presenters come from design, interaction design, information architecture, visualization, communication design, design planning, exhibit design, librarianship, media art, cultural criticism, computer networking, geographic information systems and other fields. 2007 speakers confirmed so far include Michael Wesch (The Machine is Us/ing Us), David Rose (Ambient Devices), David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous), Sylvia Harris (Information Design Strategist), Kevin Slavin, (area/code), Jake Barton (Local Projects), and Fernanda Viegas with Martin Wattenberg (Many Eyes).