Research

My research involves architectural design, computer methods, creativity, politics of design, urban design, artificial intelligence, collective intelligence and more.

Conference presentation “Automating Community Design Conversations in Urban Design using Chatbots and Machine Learning”

Artificial Intelligence, Conferences, Lecture, Research, Urban Design

This project offers an artificial intelligence tool to tackle some of these challenges by automating design conversations with thousands of residents in urban projects. From the participatory design perspective, the tool allows residents to influence and intervene in design decisions before and during the planning process through conversations. We developed a chatbot using a machine learning model that can discuss an architectural project with various stakeholders and automatically generate a design brief.

Next week’s talk – Power to the People: a Case Study of Architectural Crowdsourcing Methods to Produce Better Design

Conferences, Crowdsourcing, Lecture, Research

Next week, on the 15th of September 1922 I will present shortly the case study and field experiment of the ZHR project. In that project, my colleagues and I tried out my crowdsourcing system and chatbot in real settings. I can say that the results are very exciting and suggest that public participation can be …

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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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