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Informed Urban EnvironmentsHow We See Now: Traversing a Data-Mosaic

Informed Urban Environments: How We See Now: Traversing a Data-Mosaic [Data has an immense role in the design and planning of urban environments. Data, however, is not neutral, nor is it without a domain. With increasing frequency, designers are awakening to the datasets and databases of other fields such as urban ecology, environmental management, and public health. Designers are presented with a vast opportunity that momentarily obscures the role of practice-specific databases for a much larger prize—the agency of making data-mosaics. A data-mosaic is a multi-domain, unstructured data complex. Its contributors might originate from multiple professions with different aims and ambitions. Designers who work to make data-mosaics see the gaps in their collective understanding of urban environments as quickly as they see the opportunities to participate in transdisciplinary collaborations. This chapter of Informed Urban Environments incorporates a practice-based perspective on the opportunities, challenges, limitations, and applications of data and data-driven design. KieranTimberlake, a Philadelphia-based practice, discusses modeling practices associated with vegetation, life cycle assessment, and occupant comfort to demonstrate the profession's increasing awareness of mosaic-making.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Informed Urban EnvironmentsHow We See Now: Traversing a Data-Mosaic

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Chokhachian, Ata; Hensel, Michael U.; Perini, Katia
Faircloth, Billie; Connock, Christopher; Welch, Ryan; Elsworth, Kit; Escott, Elizabeth
Informed Urban Environments — May 10, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-03802-0
Pages
27 –49
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-03803-7_3
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Abstract

[Data has an immense role in the design and planning of urban environments. Data, however, is not neutral, nor is it without a domain. With increasing frequency, designers are awakening to the datasets and databases of other fields such as urban ecology, environmental management, and public health. Designers are presented with a vast opportunity that momentarily obscures the role of practice-specific databases for a much larger prize—the agency of making data-mosaics. A data-mosaic is a multi-domain, unstructured data complex. Its contributors might originate from multiple professions with different aims and ambitions. Designers who work to make data-mosaics see the gaps in their collective understanding of urban environments as quickly as they see the opportunities to participate in transdisciplinary collaborations. This chapter of Informed Urban Environments incorporates a practice-based perspective on the opportunities, challenges, limitations, and applications of data and data-driven design. KieranTimberlake, a Philadelphia-based practice, discusses modeling practices associated with vegetation, life cycle assessment, and occupant comfort to demonstrate the profession's increasing awareness of mosaic-making.]

Published: May 10, 2022

Keywords: Architectural design and computation; Data-driven design; Mosaicking; Transdisciplinary; Urban ecology; LCA; Occupant comfort

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