Mapping the Domain: Navigating to a Discipline

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

The best way to participate in the roundtable is to contribute a 5-minute lightning talk on your views concerning the domain mapping theme. This will help you prepare for the roundtable ahead of time, get some skin in the game, and provide the group with content for discussion and activities during the roundtable.

You can also attend the roundtable without giving a lightning talk. You will be expected to participate in the activities of the day and contribute to the conversations.

IDEAS FOR LIGHTNING TALKS

1. What I learned from a past Academics and Practitioner Roundtable (we would like to have a talk for each of the 4 previous years)
   
2. Recapping the M3 Model.
3. What is a discipline? What is practice? How do practices become disciplines?
   
4. Is information architecture a craft or a science or a philosophy or a religion? What is the distinction?
   
5. Your brilliant idea related to mapping the information architecture domain.
   

Lightning talks are not limited to this list: be creative!

GIVING A LIGHTNING TALK

1. Prepare an abstract of what you will talk about (200 words or less). Include the top 2-5 points you want to convey. Email it to stacysurla@gmail.com by February 24 (extended from February 15).
   
2. We will quickly review the submissions and give you feedback. We normally accept all submissions, but if we get too many we might have to package some talks in the form of written summaries. All the talks will provide reference materials for attendees to carry out the activities of the day.
3. Register for the roundtable. The cost is only $200, to cover food and facility expenses.
   
4. Prepare your talk, in "Lightning format" (5 minutes total, 20 seconds per slide). Share it with us 1 week before the roundtable so we can integrate the material into the schedule, and tweak the planned activities if needed.
   
5. Show up at the roundtable on March 22nd and give your talk. Participate in the roundtable!
   
6. Often, participants like to do some sort of follow-up activity to get even more out of the roundtable. For practitioners, this could be as little as posting their lightning talk, but sometimes it includes writing an article or presenting at a conference to share what they learned with other practitioners. Academics like writing papers, so sometimes the follow-up for them is writing a chapter for a book. No one is required to do anything after the roundtable, but often the energy from the day pushes people to do more afterwards.
   

If you are only attending, not presenting a lightning talk, you still need to register and pay $200.

Most roundtable attendees also attend the IA Summit, but you are not required to register for the Summit.

TIMELINE FOR PARTICIPATION

1. February 15: Submit abstract for lightning talk
   
2. February 22: Get feedback, confirm attendance & register for the roundtable
3. March 15: Share a draft of lightning talk
   
4. March 22: Attend the roundtable
   
5. TBD: Do some sort of follow-up activity