Distributed Intelligence In Design

The book contains the papers developed from the presentations at the <i>Distributed Intelligence in Design</i> Symposium, held in Salford in May 2009. In this context, Distributed Intelligence refers to the interdisciplinary knowledge of a range of different individuals in different organisations, with different backgrounds and experience, and the symposium discussed the media, technologies and behaviours required to support their successful collaboration. <p>The book focusses on:</p> <ul type=”disc”> <li>how parametric and generative design media can be coupled with and managed alongside Building Information Modelling tools and systems</li> <li>how the cross-disciplinary knowledge is distributed and coordinated across different software, participants and organizations</li> <li>the characteristics of the evolving creative and collaborative practices</li> <li>how built environment education should be adapted to this digitally-networked practice and highly distributed intelligence in design</li> </ul> <p>The chapters address a range of innovative developments, methodologies, applications, research work and theoretical arguments, to present current experience and expectations as collaborative practice becomes critical in the design of future built environments.</p>