A/B Architecture: Publicly Augmented Design

Architects are sometimes criticised for prioritising aesthetics over functionality; but attempts to involve end users in building design all too often encounter apathy. Is a successful participatory design process possible? Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel of MIT's Senseable City Lab have been r...

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Published in:Architectural design 2016-09, Vol.86 (5), p.42-47
Main Authors: Ratti, Carlo, Claudel, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
'Architecture Without Architects' exhibition
Adaptation
Architects
Architecture
Architecture (computers)
Benjamin Dillenburger
Bernard Rudofsky
Carlo Ratti Associati
Christopher Alexander
Christopher's Mind
Computer Aided Architectural Design Group (CAAD)
COOP Italia
crowdsourcing
Design engineering
Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
Encounters
End users
Energy for Life
ETH
ETH, Zurich
Feeding the Planet
Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life
Future Food District
Greg Bryant
Gustave Flaubert
Inditex
Italy
Milan World Expo
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
N John Habraken
New York
Nicholas Negroponte
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard)
pattern language
Peter and Alison Smithson
Robin Hood Gardens
Soft Architecture Machines
Software development
Test procedures
The Oregon Experiment
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium
University of Oregon
Zaha Hadid
ZARA
Zurich
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Summary:Architects are sometimes criticised for prioritising aesthetics over functionality; but attempts to involve end users in building design all too often encounter apathy. Is a successful participatory design process possible? Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel of MIT's Senseable City Lab have been researching ways to make it so. Their solutions include an adaptation of the A/B testing method used in software development, together with means from questionnaires to immersive virtual systems that can draw both conscious and unconscious public feedback while maintaining architects' central role.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.2087