This volume reveals the history of Information Architecture (IA), reflects on the relationship between practice and research within the discipline, and presents educators with the latest models, frameworks and theories that have emerged from the Information Architecture Academics and Practitioners Roundtable between 2014 and 2019. The most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Information Architecture so far, this collection is a valuable tool for teachers, researchers, and practitioners interested in recent advances in information architecture in areas such as pervasive computing and embodiment, artificial intelligence, design practice, diversity and ethics in design, and critique.

The information landscape has grown more complex, porous and connected-the information challenges of smart phones, sensors and IoT demand focused attention from organizations that often embrace a 'move fast and break things' ethos.

This book not only explores the shift from Classical IA toContemporary IA-it asks, are today's creators prepared to solve the challenges ahead? Have industry-led disciplines abdicated their responsibility to the people who inhabit current information environments? Will this discipline persist?

Advances in Information Architecture examines the maturity of the field, revisits the discipline's efforts to transform itself in 2013 with the publication of "Reframing Information Architecture", and considers the opportunities that remain to bridge the academic and practitioner communities.

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Prologues.- Chapter 2. Classical to Contemporary.- Chapter 3. Big Architect Little Architect.- Chapter 4. IA Front and Center- In Conversation with Keith Instone.- Chapter 5. To IA or not IA.- Chapter 6. On Being Magpies - In Conversation with Andrew Dillon.- Chapter 7. The Memphis Plenary.- Chapter 8. Toward a New Information Architecture.- Chapter 9. Bandleaders in the Idea Business - In Conversation with Lou Rosenfeld.- Chapter 10. The Academics and Practitioners Roundtable 2014-2019.- Part II. Architectures.- Chapter 11. She Persists - In Conversation with Abby Covert.- Chapter 12. Information Architecture for Industry Events - Intention, Diversity, and Inclusion.- Chapter 13. Teaching Information Architecture in South Africa - In Conversation with Terence Fenn.- Chapter 14. Inversion in Information Architecture.- Chapter 15. Information Architecture Do ().- Chapter 16. In Search of: Information Architecture.- Chapter 17. Institutions are People and Leadership is Key - In Conversation with Flávia Lacerda.- Chapter 18. The Organization and Exploration of Space as Narrative An Information Architecture Approach.- Chapter 19. Keepers of Structure - In Conversation with Nathaniel Davis.- Part III. Futures.- Chapter 20. There is no AI without IA - In Conversation with Carol Smith.- Chapter 21. Towards a Feminist Information Architecture.- Chapter 22. Information Architecture in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 23. Acts of Architecture - In Conversation with Andrew Hinton.- Chapter 24. Concepts for an Information Architecture of Time.- Chapter 25. Afterword: In Conversation with Richard Saul Wurman.