We celebrated World IA Day 2020 on the 22nd February at [The Circle][], Huda City Centre. The event featured talks by four speakers touching upon various aspects of information architecture across history and culture, interface design, data journalism and visualisations. Here’s a short round up of each of the talks (with links to the slides) —
[IAE]: https://www.worldiaday.org/2020
[wiad]: https://www.worldiaday.org/
[the circle]: https://www.thecircle.work/
[wiaddel]: https://twitter.com/wiad_newdelhi
### Let’s Define IA
The event was kickstarted by [Manish Saini][manish], an Information Experience Designer who’s currently working at Cvent. Manish laid the ground work for the event describing how one can relate to information architecture in their work, and how to define the practice of IA.
([See Manish’s slides][slides-manish])
[manish]: https://twitter.com/sainisays
[slides-manish]: https://speakerdeck.com/manishsans/lets-define-information-architecture
### Decoding Crafts: Mapping Asia InCH Encyclopedia
The following talk was by Richa Tiwari from [Craft Revival Trust][]. She started off with a brief history about how various craft forms were affected by rapid industrialisation in the 1900s. She further went on to share how her organisation has been mapping the intangible cultural heritage of South Asia into [an encyclopedia][asiainch].
([See Richa’s slides][slides-richa])
[Craft Revival Trust]: https://www.craftrevivaltrust.org/
[asiainch]:https://asiainch.org/
[slides-richa]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xxhNu5yQB75NruTaPwEEdck9-hYbQyDgIQjn5iGfOrY/edit?usp=sharing_eip&ts=5e550e00
### Humanising Digital Interactions
The third talk was by [Vikramaditya Sharma][manu] – the founder of [Now Form][]. Vikramaditya made us take a look at the various forms of digital interactions we experience in our life and how these are slowly turning into more natural human interactions, one step at a time. ([See Vikramaditya’s slides][slides-vikramaditya])
[manu]: https://www.instagram.com/vikramadityasharma/
[now form]: https://www.instagram.com/nowform/
[slides-vikramaditya]: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12qUsOmuupwFwW1O0cx-fvv8DV4rqrmhQ
### Making Sense of Data in an Indian Newsroom
The last speaker [Sriharsha Devulapalli][] works at [Mint][]. Sriharsha shared several stories and experiences of being a data journalist in India. He went on to explain the process of producing good data stories — right from data collection and cleaning to visualisations. ([See Sriharsha’s slides][slides-sriharsha])
[Sriharsha Devulapalli]: https://twitter.com/sh_devulapalli
[mint]: https://www.livemint.com/
[slides-sriharsha]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Px6j8q1t-n3dN5JDKX93rvD_-H2BrUk3/view?usp=sharing
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After [2018][wiad18] and [2019][wiad19], this was the third year of Miranj supporting World IA Day in New Delhi. Thanks to [Abhishek][] and [Manish][] for volunteering and to [Archit][] for onsite logistics. ([See full photo album][photos])
[wiad18]: https://miranj.in/blog/2018/world-ia-day-2018-new-delhi
[wiad19]: https://miranj.in/blog/2019/world-ia-day-2019-new-delhi