Intersection 25

• THE IIID-INTERSECTION WORKSHOP •

Taxonomies with Intent: Designing Clarity for Complex Organizations

Brussels, September 17th-19th 2025. In today’s complex organizations, drowning in data and starved for clarity, structured knowledge is a competitive advantage. Yet teams often face fragmented information, inconsistent language, and unreliable data. The hidden culprit? A lack of intentional taxonomies.
This session explores how well-designed taxonomies can bring order to chaos –enabling smarter decisions, more trustworthy AI outcomes, and better strategic alignment. Far from being dry classification systems, taxonomies act as invisible scaffolding that shapes how information flows, how collaboration happens, and how value is created. As generative AI tools become pervasive, the stakes grow higher. Without clear, consistent taxonomies, automation can amplify confusion rather than reduce it –garbage in, garbage out.
This conversation also complements the EDGY framework, where Tree relations structure enterprise elements and Objects capture meaning and purpose. While this session focuses on practical taxonomy design, it connects to broader enterprise modelling practices, helping participants bridge local clarity with systemic coherence.
Grounded in principles of Information Architecture and Design, this workshop invites you to reclaim taxonomy as a strategic discipline—not an afterthought.

Workshop led by Alok b. Nandi and Giuseppe Attoma Pepe

BIOS
Alok b. Nandi is busy with innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, powered by narrative and design tools. His professional experiences cover a range of entrepreneurial activities (intrapreneurship, spin-off, creative industries) and advisory roles, including brand/advertising and communication (P&G – Procter & Gamble, EC pan-europeans campaigns), film production, exhibition design and new media in publishing (Casterman – publisher of a.o. Tintin, Groupe Flammarion).
He is dealing with storytelling in multiple media, space and technologies, from high-tech interactive installations to low-tech mise-en-scène. Speaker at international conferences and events, incl. PechaKucha Tokyo, TEDx Flanders, IxDA, Cumulus, WDO, SDN.
Invited lecturer in multiple institutions, Alok Nandi is professor of Innovation & Design at Institut Lyfe, hospitality-culinary school in Lyon, co-founded by chef Paul Bocuse, 3* Michelin. He has founded PechaKucha Brussels, and he co-initiated the P-R-E series, Practitioners meeting Researchers meeting Educators, organised by Cumulus Association and IxDA.
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Born in Genoa, Italy, Giuseppe Attoma Pepe studied Communication and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna (DAMS) and Architecture at the University of Genoa. He later earned a master’s degree in Sustainable Innovation by Design from ENSCI – Les Ateliers in Paris, France.
After moving to Paris, he became a pioneer in Service Design, Information Design, and User Experience Design in France. Through his agency, Attoma, he has addressed complex challenges in mobility, urban infrastructure, the energy transition, and the manufacturing and IT sectors. With over 25 years of international design experience, he now works as a Strategic Design Consultant, leading missions that span the design, structuring, and evaluation of complex service systems.
A regular speaker and published author, Giuseppe also curates attomalab.eu, a blog exploring design culture and emerging trends.

Join us for lively dialogues in this session powered by IIID.

Intersection is a leading conference on Enterprise Design. The 11th edition brings us to Brussels! We share one challenge: to design and build enterprises that are more purposeful, useful and successful. We are thrilled to invite you to 3 days of inspiring talks, cases and workshops in Brussels, September 17th-19th 2025.

11th Edition: “Untangling the Mess, Together!”

Enterprises are complex. They span multiple systems, perspectives, and layers—often leading to tangled structures, misaligned strategies, and fragmented experiences. At Intersection 25, we come together to unravel this complexity.

For over a decade, Intersection has been the leading conference on strategic Enterprise Design. We’ve brought together practitioners in Enterprise Design and Architecture, Service and Information Design to tackle real-world challenges. We co-created EDGY, an Open Source toolkit to support their work with enterprises.

Now, as we launch our 11th edition in Brussels, we focus on untangling the mess—helping enterprises navigate their complexities, inside and outside, and shape more coherent, connected, and purposeful futures.

Call for Contributions

We invite you to share your experiences, insights, and solutions for making sense of enterprise complexity. We are looking for stories, cases, and methods that help clarify, structure, and transform messy enterprises into well-aligned ecosystems.

We’re especially interested in:

  • Decision-Making in Complexity – How do we enable faster, better joint decisions across silos, organisations and ecosystems?
  • Making Enterprise Information AI-Ready – What does it take to structure, govern, architect and design information to enable machine learning applications?
  • Cross-Enterprise Experiences – How can we design seamless interactions across organisations, products, platforms, and channels?
  • Language, Mental Models & Visualisation – How do we create clarity, consistent terminology and shared understanding for alignment and action?
  • Organisation & Ecosystem Complexity – What strategies help enterprises thrive in interconnected and evolving environments?

If you have a case, method, or insight that helps make sense of enterprise complexity, we want to hear from you! Submit by May 5th.

Submit your contribution

Join us in Brussels and let’s untangle the mess, together.

In collaboration with the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) and the Global Association of Enterprise Architects.