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In article <179280002@pandora>, carmike@t (tmn_) writes...
>        Architecture will certainly use groupware and
>sophisticaed modeling. the issue is, will it be humane, or merely
>enhance the tenency towards complex large strucutres that serve
>simple organizational ierarchies rather than tue human
>sociability? Obviously models could bias in either direction.
>Who will develop the socail based orientation to design for
>complex digitalized tools?
>(Doug Carmichael   carmike @tmn.com)

    I think the question you ask ("...will it be humane, or merely enhance
    the tendency towards complex large structures...?") is an appropriate
    question to ask of CAD and other related DSS modelling tools.  CAD, for
    example, enables object-oriented architectural design (plugging banks
    of predesigned rooms into building templates over and over again) which
    has the potential to take on very dehumanizing qualities.

    However, it is the specific technology of groupware that has the
    opportunity to rehumanize the design process by providing a mechanism
    for programmatic input by the user (ie. client.)  Groupware, at least
    the flavor of groupware I am working on, provides a mechanism for an
    environment's users to participate in the program and design process. 
    Groupware can collect their opinions and organizes those opinions in a
    form designers can use.  Groupware can invigorate the process of POE
    (post occupancy evaluation) as well completing the feedback loop with
    databases to provide for project memory.

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