Week 9 - Design Pasts
5th November 2024
Generative design starts from zero, it ignores the history of previous designs. Thats crazy, its a waste of a resource of human innovation. So similar to the way we ‘mine’ biology for design inspiration, could we mine hitory to better understand our designs?
Guest Lecture
- Laila Zwisler - Lecture (DTU Physics) [onsite]
- Building System History as Evolution
- Roman / Greek and Early 20thC Building Systems
Activity
In our focus groups, we will look at 2 time periods:
- Roman / Greek
- Modern / Early twentieth century
In you groups you will consider:
- How do ideas from these period still affect how we design today?
- Which of these ideas are in conflict with sustainability and circularity?
- How are these ideas affected by automation and digitisation?