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The Information Architecture Institute (http://iainstitute.org) is bringing IDEA to New York City on October 4-5 at Parsons School of Design’s Tishman Auditorium. Our conference focuses on finding information in overlapping physical and virtual spaces. We are seeking local speakers to talk about the unique information design challenges of GIS, 311, urban planning, etc.

Please review our vision statement and look at last year’s conference website. If you are interested in presenting, please send a brief abstract to me for review by our Conference Committee. Also, if you know someone who might be interested in speaking, please forward this
information to them.

IDEA 2007 website: http://www.ideaconference.org

IDEA Vision Statement

Throughout their days, people are engaging with complex information to manage their lives.

And designers now realize that information isn’t simply this stuff you find — the appropriate presentation of information helps people make sense of the world around them.

This conference addresses issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Where “cyberspace” is a meaningless term because the online and offline worlds cannot be made distinct. Where physical spaces are so complex that detailed wayfinding is necessary to navigate them. Where work processes have become so involved, and so digitized, that we need new processes to manage those processes.

This conference brings together people who are addressing these challenges head on. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds will discuss designing complex information spaces in the physical and virtual worlds.