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Started by tmn Douglass Carmichael
Mon, 03 Aug 1992 10:39
Re: Collaborative Architectural Design
Author: tmn Douglass Carmichael
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 10:39
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 10:39
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Participation ca be organized to merely rationalize what the professionals want to deliver. "Wher would you like hospital?" is a hospital designer's approach to participatory deelopment in the third world, but the people most likely do not want a hospital in the first place. Real participation is a deep inquiry among equals. Software can enhance that (e;ectrponic conferencing for example) . The technocratic megamachine outcome is the most likely but rehumanization ( I like that) is possible if the designers help.
Re: Collaborative Architectural Design
Author: Simon Musgrave
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 16:35
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 16:35
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One approach to groupware for design of things like hospitals is to base it on case-based reasoning. I.e. get the software to help people specify their requirements, and use the case-based retrieval engine to pick out the best 5 or 10 past design that most closely match the reuirements. The people then look at the designs and decide which designs or design features they like best. An advanced CBR system will then support combining designs. Also you could run the system backwards, finding the people whose requirements most matched and most opposed a design being considered, and then communicate with them to find out their ideas in most detail. Dave Newman, Information Management Dept., Queen's UNivniversity Belfast <d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk>
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