Exploring the MMC toolkit: from offsite construction to PPVC and beyond.
There are very obvious ethical dimensions here too, about automating humans out of work – or, conversely, about automating the function of humans within working environments.. We’re not charging headlong into some dystopic future.But we need to be aware that technology is not in a vacuum.
As we’ve said, it should come with ethics attached.. We would say that we’re using design automation to make digital tools and technology that provide ‘intelligent control’.3. in design, and allow people to be creative and practical.. That feels liberating to us.. 3.Design Control: Disruptive Technologies.
is a book due to be published soon by RIBA.We have a chapter in it.
You can order it here:.
www.ribabooks.com/design-studio-vol-2-intelligent-control-2021-disruptive-technologies-2021_9781859469705.Both the Parma Attachment Inhibitor and Singapore API Plant were highly complex projects with many stakeholders and technical challenges to overcome.
Collaboration and engagement with the client in an open, exploratory way was critical to managing this complexity.. Much contemporary design practice seeks to reduce complexity through specialisation –fragmenting responsibility until nobody has a clear view of the whole.Our approach was to embrace this complexity, viewing it through the lens of value drivers to find and bridge the gap between the existing and desired state.. As explained in our book.
Design to Value., “each project is unique, but an ethos and approach prevail.
(Editor: Beginner Power Banks)