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# Dan Klyn
Dan Klyn teaches information architecture at the University of Michigan School of Information, is co-founder of World Information Architecture Day, past President of the Information Architecture Institute, and is a founding member of the teaching faculty at Building Beauty. In 2011 he co-founded The Understanding Group (TUG) with Bob Royce, and has worked as an information architect for twenty-six years.
An inveterate speaker at digital design conferences, Klyn shares his deep curiosity about the architecture of information and the role it plays in supporting human well-being in keynote presentations, workshops, and architecture walks. Klyn’s writings have appeared in the Journal of Information Architecture, the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and in the edited volumes Reframing Information Architecture (2014) and Advances In Information Architecture ( 2021).
### As a speaker
[Form Follows Forces](https://worldiaday.org/talks/form-follows-forces) - [Ann Arbor](https://worldiaday.org/events/ann-arbor)
[Everything needs to actually be architected](https://worldiaday.org/talks/everything-needs-actually-be-architected) - [Bristol](https://worldiaday.org/events/bristol)
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