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Presentation given at the SCAD conference in Ghent (2011) for the paper "Increasing information feed in the process of structural design".
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16 to 17 February 2011
Increasing information feed in the process of structural steel design
Pieter Pauwels
Tine Jonckheere, Ronald De Meyer, Jan Van Campenhout
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Ideas
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Information
Information
Information
Information
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Who are we?
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PieterDavy JosRuben
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Outline
1. Information in design applications
2. How designers think
3. Technology support for design thinking
4. Semantic Web / Linked Open Data?
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Lots of research
- Nigel Cross: ‘82-’85-’90-’97-’99-’06-’07
- Bryan Lawson: ‘79-’05
- Donald Schön: ‘83
- Herbert Simon: ’83-’96
- Christopher Alexander: ‘64-’71-’77-’79-’04
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Important role of theories and beliefs
reflective ‘learning-while-doing’ continuous belief-revision / theory-revision as a product of doing / design activity
Theory-based decision-makingThe acquired theories serve as a memory of reference
=> Designers rely on previously experienced design decisions to make new design decisions
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ABDUCTIVE REASONING
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Process of scientific enquiry (C.S. Peirce)
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Outline
1. Information in design applications
2. How designers think
3. Technology support for design thinking
4. Semantic Web / Linked Open Data?
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Technology support
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Repositories
Metadata
Internet
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CAD
3D modelling
Sketch apps
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Simulation
Calculation
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MACE – Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe
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http://mace-project.eu/
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Building stories
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W.M. Martin, A. Heylighen, H. Cavallin. The right story at the right time. AI &Soc. (2005) 19: 34-47
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Evaluation
Objective: provide designers with information from previous experiences by others.
Solution: labelled repository of images, text, 3D models, etc.
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Revisiting the reasoning cycle
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easily enable designers to learn from new experiences that are
- additional to their own experiences, and
- most probably different from what was originally intended
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So, how to increase information feed??
Try to simulate the complete reasoning cycle=> artificial intelligence
AND / OR
Enable designers to find their information easily
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Outline
1. Information in design applications
2. How designers think
3. Technology support for design thinking
4. Semantic Web / Linked Open Data?
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The Linked Open Data cloud (09/2010)
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Describe information
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LOD cloud + building information
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BIM
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Example connections
Geographical information
Expert material information
People / organisation / company information
Photo material
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Visualisation in a design environment
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