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_id	caadria2020_261
id	caadria2020_261
authors	Kimm, Geoff and Burry, Mark
year	2020
title	Encouraging Community Participation in Design Decision-making through Reactive Scripting - a general framework tested in the smart villages context
source	D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, I. Koh (eds.), RE: Anthropocene, Design in the Age of Humans - Proceedings of the 25th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 5-6 August 2020, pp. 51-60
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2020.2.051
summary	In governmental decision-making, centralised experts spending a society's resources benefit from the guidance of community participation, yet the most effective participation by individuals distributed throughout a community often relies on expert guidance. This co-dependency of centralised and distributed knowledge is a critical weakness in contexts, such as developing rural communities, in which opportunities for in-field expert engagement are limited. This paper proposes a novel computational framework to break this deadlock by taking into the field responsive expertise digitally encapsulated within accessible built environment simulations. The framework is predicated in reactive scripting for design apps that invite a citizen user to progress a model towards their ideal design by prompts that highlight exceptional, contradictory, mutually exclusive, or simply underwhelming outcomes or branching decisions. The app simulations provide a gamified context of play in which goals are not prescriptively encoded but instead arise out of the social and community context. The detailed framework, presented together with a proof of concept smart villages app that is described along with an integration and feasibility test with positive results, provides a model for better participatory decision-making outcomes in the face of limited availability of expertise.
keywords	community participation; built environment simulation; gamification; reactive scripting; smart cities and villages
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ijac202018103
id	ijac202018103
authors	Kimm, Geoff
year	2020
title	Actual and experiential shadow origin tagging: A 2.5D algorithm for efficient precinct-scale modelling
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 1, 41-52
summary	This article describes a novel algorithm for built environment 2.5D digital model shadow generation that allows identities of shadowing sources to be efficiently precalculated. For any point on the ground, all sources of shadowing can be identified and are classified as actual or experiential obstructions to sunlight. The article justifies a 2.5D raster approach in the context of modelling of architectural and urban environments that has in recent times shifted from 2D to 3D, and describes in detail the algorithm which builds on precedents for 2.5D raster calculation of shadows. The algorithm is efficient and is applicable at even precinct scale in low-end computing environments. The simplicity of this new technique, and its independence of GPU coding, facilitates its easy use in research, prototyping and civic engagement contexts. Two research software applications are presented with technical details to demonstrate the algorithm’s use for participatory built environment simulation and generative modelling applications. The algorithm and its shadow origin tagging can be applied to many digital workflows in architectural and urban design, including those using big data, artificial intelligence or community participative processes.
keywords	2.5D raster, actual and experiential shadow origins, generative techniques, participatory built environment simulation, reactive scripting for design
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_id	acadia20_698
id	acadia20_698
authors	Kimm, Geoff; Burry, Mark
year	2020
title	Steering into the Skid
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 698-707.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.698
summary	What if any perceived risks of lost authorship and artistic control posed by a wholesale embrace of artificial intelligence by the architectural profession were instead opportunities? AI’s potential to automate design has been pursued for over 50 years, yet aspirations of early researchers are not fully realized. Nonetheless, AI’s advances continue to be rapid; it is an increasingly viable adjunct to architectural practice, and there are fundamental reasons for why the perceived “risks” of AI cannot be dismissed lightly. Architects’ professional role at the intersection of social issues and technology, however, may allow them to avoid the obsolescence faced by other roles. To do this, we propose architects responsively arbitrage an ever-changing gap between maturing AI and mutable social expectations— arbitrage in the sense of seeking to exercise individual judgment to negotiate between diverse considerations and capacities for mutual advantage. Rather than feel threatened, evolving architectural practice can augment an expanded design process to generate and embed new subtleties and expectations that society may judge contemporary AI alone as being unable to achieve. Although there can be no road map to the future of AI in architecture, historical misevaluations of machines and our own human capabilities inhibit the intertwined, synergistic, and symbiotic union with AI needed to avoid a zero-sum confrontation. To act myopically, defensively, or not at all risks straitjacketing future definitions of what it means to be an architect, designer, or even a professionally unaligned creative and productive human being.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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