This seminar explores how designers can use newly developed digital tools to imagine futures that benefit community and ecology, while nurturing the bond between the human and natural world. The process involves defining strategies for collecting and codifying qualitative data related to vulnerable communities, which in turn are used as design drivers to invent buildings that nurture the environments they inhabit, and the people who inhabit them.
When built environments are destroyed through natural or manmade disasters, an opportunity presents itself to rebuild, this time with more sensitivity, care, and inclusion. Care towards the biological world, sensitivity towards the human condition when faced with traumatic loss, and inclusion towards future cultures rooted in new citizenships.
This seminar will explore how designers can use newly developed digital tools to imagine futures that benefit community and ecology, while nurturing the bond between the human and natural world. We will define strategies for collecting and codifying qualitative data related to vulnerable communities, which will in turn be used as design drivers to invent buildings that nurture the environments they inhabit, and the people who inhabit them.
From a generic design perspective, this seminar offers a platform to explore a data-driven design ideation process that links established digital design tools to experimental, open-access visualisation software. This workflow facilitates the rapid production of images visualising complex associations derived from the codification of intangible concepts and qualitative inputs. Therefore, the investigation of this workflow should ultimately provide designers with a set of customizable tools to be used during the brainstorming phase of any design process, and to facilitate the foundational conception of a complex design brief.
At course completion the student will:
“Cultivating cultural resilience and healing through community gardens and herbal sanctuary.” 01 | IThe Site “is located at the northern border of Gaza where the land meets the imposing structures of fences and walls, and defined not just by physical barriers, but by the stories of families divided and dreams deferred” 01 | IThe Community … Read more
Harmonising Coastal Futures, Restoring Balance in China’s Maritime , A Speculation of Communal Synergy in the context of Houtouwan THE PROBLEM // RESOURCE EXPLOITATION | OVER FISHING China’s over fishing crisis looms large, statistics revealing a stark reality of declining marine resources. With the majority of the worlds fishing resources coming from China, the country has … Read more
Empowering Flood-Affected Communities in Kerala through Resilience, Support and Care
designing a future for a country torn by civil war – how to make people feel safe and able to trust each other? ISSUE – Relevance and Implications SITE – Relevance and Character COMMUNITY – Existing Narrative QUANTITATIVE DATA – Georgraphy, Ecology, Demographics QUALITATIVE DATA – Sociocultural and Community DESIGN RESPONSE – Speculative Program DESIGN RESPONSE – … Read more
This project aims to study the current situation in the city of El Ejido, and create a proposal of a design that will respond to the social issues of the city. The majority of the land of this city is consisted of farming lands and greenhouses which are occupied by immigrants that are working there … Read more
