Open Design Handbook

Grasping the real-world design data

 

The project explores the role of open data for design and social change through open data literacy. Open data has great potential in the design of sustainable space. Academia produces open data on urban mobility, water infrastructure, energy consumption and the use of public spaces, but open data research on the design of buildings is comparatively scarce. The project aims to close this gap by linking architects in practice to data stewards and data scientists, to co-create an 'open source, open collaboration, and community-driven architectural data handbook’ for future climate-conscious design. By unlocking a new data culture, we cultivate architectural transformation by demonstrating the potential of open data for design, and as a resource to advise, inspire, and inform architectural research and practice. The Open Design Handbook will add value to the TU Delft in two ways. First, providing researchers with access to real-world design data on the building scale by connecting to digital project archives of architectural companies. And, second, improving academic research through future alliances with societal actors and institutions by integrating research into the design of the built environment.

 

The Open Design Handbook will be developed in a series of workshops with architects, researchers and data managers. It is supported by the Mainstreaming Open Science Fund of the Open Science Community Delft.