A trans-coded gem from the VHS library at the University of Michigan school of Art & Architecture. Christopher Alexander gives a 3-part talk to object-oriented programming enthusiasts in Southern California back in 1996, and the perspectives he lends on generating living structures and making things be good are an inspiration to our work at The Understanding Group. We hope it inspires you too.

Jessica DuVerneay shares her reflections:
Almost a week later, and I’m still exhausted from the Information Architecture Summit 2014 in San Diego. And I mean that in a good way, in a GREAT way. After hosting a workshop, attending four keynotes, attending near 15 amazing talks, having an innumerable amount of wonderful and challenging conversations with great IA minds, (and somehow managing to eat, sleep, and be a human in there, too) I’m wiped, in the best way possible.

Andrew Hinton provides his slides and speaker notes for a presentation on information environments he gave in 2014 Convey UX in Seattle.

Andrew Hinton's reflects on his ongoing journey toward figuring out what it is we architect when we do information architecture.