Design

A Machine-Learning Approach to Urban Design Interventions in Non-planned Settlements

Artificial Intelligence, Design, Research, Urban Design

This study presents generative adversarial networks (GANs), a machine-learning technique that can be used as an urban design tool capable of learning and reproducing complex patterns that express the unique spatial qualities of non-planned settlements. We report preliminary experimental results of training and testing GAN models on different datasets of urban patterns. The results reveal …

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New open-access research paper: Collective Intelligence in Design Crowdsourcing

Artificial Intelligence, Design, Research

Abstract: This study investigates how collective intelligence emerges in crowdsourcing for architectural design. Previous studies have revealed that collective intelligence emerges from collaboration and can outperform individual intelligence. As design is a highly collaborative practice, collective intelligence plays a vital role in the design process. In this study, we compare the structure of two architectural …

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John Gero: Design and Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future

Artificial Intelligence, Design, Lecture, Research

John Gero has been a professor of design science, architecture, artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive psychology, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering at Sydney University, MIT, CMU, Columbia, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, EPFL, and University of Provence, amongst others. He has published over 800 research articles and books. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement …

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Humans and Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Design

Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Design, Lecture, Research

I gave this lecture at the Technion’s Faculty of Architecture colloquium on the 31st of May, 2021. The topic of the lecture is how humans and artificial intelligence can collaborate in a design process. This video is of the lecture only. If you are interested in the full video that includes an introduction and Q&A, …

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A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design – eCAADe 2020

Conferences, Crowdsourcing, Design, Lecture, Research

This is a video of a presentation about this paper. Abstract: This paper provides an overview of “Architasker”, a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. The platform includes communicating complex architectural project requirements; solution space exploration using different micro-tasks like …

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A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design

Articles, Crowdsourcing, Design, Knowledge, Research

This paper provides an overview of “Architasker”, a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. The platform includes communicating complex architectural project requirements; solution space exploration using different micro-tasks like sketching, 2D and 3D CAD; design selection; and design review as …

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Open-source architecture and questions of intellectual property, tacit knowledge, and liability

Articles, Design, Knowledge, Open Source, Research

To cite this article: Jonathan Dortheimer & Talia Margalit (2020) Open-source architecture and questions of intellectual property, tacit knowledge, and liability, The Journal of Architecture, 25:3, 276-294, DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2020.1758950 Abstract Inspired by open-source and crowdsourcing technologies, the concept of ‘open-source architecture’ has been increasingly used to describe collaborative architectural design (CoDesign) in recent years. In …

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Summary of the presentation of the study on Open Source Architecture

Design, Knowledge, Lecture, Open Source, Research
man standing in front of people sitting on red chairs

Next week I will present the research I conducted in a thesis at the academic conference “International Conference on Smart Cities: Potentials, Prospects and Discontents”. The study was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Talia Margalit. Here is the summary: Under the influence of open source communities and mass outsourcing technologies, the concept of “Open …

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