| authors |
Jabi, Wassim M. |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
The Role of Artifacts in Collaborative Design |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1998.271
|
| source |
CAADRIA ‘98 [Proceedings of The Third Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 4-907662-009] Osaka (Japan) 22-24 April 1998, pp. 271-280 |
| summary |
With the proliferation of digital technology, a new category of design
artifacts, usually described with the term virtual, has emerged. Virtual artifacts have
gained further prominence due to the advances made in collaboration software and
networking technologies. These technologies have made it easier to communicate
design intentions through the transfer and sharing of virtual rather than physical
artifacts. This becomes particularly true in the case of long-distance or international
collaborative efforts. This paper compares the two major categories of artifacts – the
physical and the computer-based – and places them in relationship to an observed
collaborative design process. In order to get at their specific roles in collaboration, two
case studies were conducted in which designers in academic and professional settings
were observed using a methodology which focused on participation in the everydayness
of the designer as well as casual discussions, collection of artifacts, note-taking, and
detailed descriptions of insightful events. The collected artifacts were then categorized
according to the setting in which they were created and the setting in which they were
intended to be used. These two attributes could have one of two values, private or
public, which yield a matrix of four possible categories. It was observed that artifacts
belonging in the same quadrant shared common qualities such as parsimony,
completeness, and ambiguity. This paper finds that distinguishing between physical
and virtual artifacts according to their material and imagined attributes is neither
accurate nor useful. This research illustrates how virtual artifacts can obtain the
qualities of their physical counterparts and vice versa. It also demonstrates how a new
meta-artifact can emerge from the inclusion and unification of its material and
imagined components. In conclusion, the paper calls for a seamless continuity in the
representation and management of physical and virtual artifacts as a prerequisite to the
success of: (1) computer-supported collaborative design processes, (2) academic
instruction dealing with making and artifact building, and (3) executive policies in
architectural practice addressing the management of architectural documents.
|
| keywords |
Collaborative Design Process |
| series |
CAADRIA |
| email |
|
| more |
http://www.caadria.org |
| full text |
 file.pdf (290,351 bytes) |
| references |
Content-type: text/plain
|
| last changed |
2022/06/07 07:50 |
|
