1: Contemporary Architecture needs to be open to the world in order to benefit the Contemporary world.
3: By opening the process of Design in collaborative and diverse ways, architects can initiate change on an entirely new level. The fusion of diverse ideas will naturally hybridize many new forms and create opportunities for new discourse on a global scale. Such discourse will create the vectors along which the future of Architecture will develop.
9: The coordinated development of Open Source Software, Creative Commons Licensing and other Open Frameworks has proven the high-functioning potential of open systems. Integral to these frameworks are Open Development, Open Distribution and Open Education, which engage the complete lifecycle of a project. Architecture has made forays into these topics with Participatory Design, lifecycle analyses and performance-calibrated design, but has not unified them holistically. By considering them together, the production of Architecture will maximize its output. By incorporating diverse collaborative design, we will change the world for the better. By tapping into existing communities to feed the process, we can accelerate the process of developing local solutions. By creating a forum for new communities, we can revolutionize the production of Architecture. By developing human potential on a global scale, we will foster the next generation of the Creative Class. And by allowing our Architecture and the process that creates it to cross the closed threshold, we will create living objects in the collective memory exponentially more integrated with the world's needs compared to their pristine ancestors.
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ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of 'open-source' or 'cloud' architecture and I think the nascent scripting communities attached to processing.org, generatorX, etc. begin to exhibit some of these principles. In these cases, as with other open-source communities, authorship takes a back seat to performance. That is, no cares who authored it as long as it works; the best ideas rise to the top and best-practices are implemented very rapidly. Of course, these communities are heavy on the form end. It will be exciting to see how you can begin to incorporate other areas of community design into the process, or how you can incorporate more qualitive measures into an open-source framework.
How do you justify the clients wishes with the voice of the public, or is it that juxtaposition that you want to highlight. We like to believe that every space, building, site is public, but most often there is a vested interest by a controlling party, investor, organization, or developer. So just as Lynux proposes an alternative to Microsoft and Apple maybe your open source design process can enlighten and begin to influence traditional design, which is where I find your thesis oh so interesting.
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