Hi, my name is Adonis Fuentes. I’m a graduate student at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, pursuing an MLIS with a focus on digital archiving. Before this, I earned a BFA in Visual Communications at Pratt (2016-2020) and spent over two years working as a Product Designer in the pharmaceutical sector, which means I came into archival studies already thinking about how things are structured, how people navigate them, and what determines whether someone actually finds what they’re looking for.
That background shapes how I approach archival work. Arrangement and description, metadata schemas, digital preservation methods, I think about all of it through the lens of someone who’s spent time building for users, not just theorizing about access. I want to work in archives where the collections carry real weight, places with genuine scholarly or cultural engagement with the material and real stakes around provenance, access, and long-term stewardship. The kind of environments where archival decisions shape what gets remembered and what quietly disappears. The through-line for me is that archival practice and design thinking aren’t separate concerns. How a collection is processed, described, and made discoverable is as much a design question as it is an information science one.
Hi, my name is Adonis Fuentes. I’m a graduate student at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, pursuing an MLIS with a focus on digital archiving. Before this, I earned a BFA in Visual Communications and spent over two years working as a Product Designer, which means I came into archival studies already thinking about how things are structured, how people navigate them, and what determines whether someone actually finds what they’re looking for.
That background shapes how I approach archival work. Arrangement and description, metadata schemas, digital preservation methods, I think about all of it through the lens of someone who’s spent time building for users, not just theorizing about access. I want to work in archives where the collections carry real weight, places with genuine scholarly or cultural engagement with the material and real stakes around provenance, access, and long-term stewardship. The kind of environments where archival decisions shape what gets remembered and what quietly disappears. The through-line for me is that archival practice and design thinking aren’t separate concerns. How a collection is processed, described, and made discoverable is as much a design question as it is an information science one.
Hi, my name is Adonis Fuentes. I’m a graduate student at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, pursuing an MLIS with a focus on digital archiving. Before this, I earned a BFA in Visual Communications at Pratt (2016-2020) and spent over two years working as a Product Designer in the pharmaceutical sector, which means I came into archival studies already thinking about how things are structured, how people navigate them, and what determines whether someone actually finds what they’re looking for.
That background shapes how I approach archival work. Arrangement and description, metadata schemas, digital preservation methods, I think about all of it through the lens of someone who’s spent time building for users, not just theorizing about access. I want to work in archives where the collections carry real weight, places with genuine scholarly or cultural engagement with the material and real stakes around provenance, access, and long-term stewardship. The kind of environments where archival decisions shape what gets remembered and what quietly disappears. The through-line for me is that archival practice and design thinking aren’t separate concerns. How a collection is processed, described, and made discoverable is as much a design question as it is an information science one.