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Special Section Practical Modeling: Making the Invisible Visible by Joe Elmendorf, Andrew Hinton and aarin Hoff Commun cat ng Informat on Arch tecture 5 EDIT R’S SUMMARY here are many sorts of models, including physical scale models of r e A fundamental part of information architecture is translating rough ideas through language to buildings, mathematical and statistical models, which overlap in b m u a set of organized relationships, understandable to all stakeholders. Modeling information T many ways (Figure 1). In a recent workshop focusing on conceptual N 1, helps visualize the problem to be addressed en route to finding a solution. The process may be models, information architects Joe Elmendorf, Andrew Hinton and Kaarin 4 e complex, iterative and time consuming but necessary to transition from a vague idea to a final Hoff taught participants how to make concepts into visual obj ects we can m u l implementation. Modeling takes place throughout a project to facilitate analysis of the problem manipulate, allow us to explore their relationships and let us work with o V 5– being addressed. It helps clarify relationships and ideas without moving too quickly to parts and aspects of complex systems. There’s a misconception that 1 0 specifics, like bubble diagrams of spatial relationships that evolve in phases into detailed conceptual work isn’t practical. But, in fact, all these approaches are 2 y l architectural drawings. Modeling captures assumptions, even if unstated and invisible, and it u