Activating Design
Funded by TU Delft sector plan
The term ‘Activating Design’ is introduced as an approach to investigate interdisciplinary co-conception, creative thinking theories, and the responsible adoption of new technologies in the architecture design profession to face societal and environmental challenges. With the rise of digital innovations (e.g. open data, artificial intelligence, sensors and automation) and impact of human and urban activities on the Earth's ecosystem, architects must answer to an increasing variety of demands, actors’ voices, regulations and requirements. The ensuing proliferation of diverse perspectives questions traditional architectural design practice and calls for recalibration of the roles and means to operate within this complexity. Which tools and methods can architects use to create environments that respond better to a multitude of needs, now and in the future? By proposing a transition from a ‘data-driven’ to ‘situated knowledge-driven' design - a shared, complex knowledge that is subject to discussion and collective interpretation – the research underscores the relation between data and (shared) narrative in the pursuit of sustainable and collaborative urban and architectural design.
Researchers:
Inès Zaid (PhD/lecturer)
Ömer Faruk Ağırsoy (PhD)